People

Martin Prominski is Full Professor and chair of “Designing Urban Landscapes” at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. After three years of apprenticeship and work experience as a landscape gardener, he studied landscape planning at TU Berlin and landscape architecture at Harvard University, GSD, and received a PhD from TU Berlin in 2003. His current research focuses on research through design strategies, new concepts of nature and culture in the Anthropocene and landscape architectural strategies to address the challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. He is a registered landscape architect and co-founded “mesh landscape architects, Hannover/Tokyo” in 2018 with three partners.

Prof. Dr. Martin Prominski

Project Coordinator and Main Supervisor
Department of Open Space Planning and Design
Leibniz University Hannover Germany

Prof. Dr. Antje Backhaus
Co-Supervisor
Department of Green Technologies
Leibniz University Hannover Germany

Arend van der Kam is a PhD researcher at Leibniz University Hannover. He studied garden and landscape design at Van Hall Larenstein and landscape architecture at Wageningen University. His MSc thesis explored how dark ecology could inform park design for coexistence with pollution in the Anthropocene, a theme he further developed in his exhibition at Dutch Design Week Following his studies, he worked at Strootman Landschapsarchitecten in Amsterdam. His current research continues to investigate the philosophical and ecological dimensions of landscape architecture through post-humanism, actor-network theory, assemblage thinking, and conviviality theory.

M.Sc. Arend van der Kam
Doctoral Candidate

Leibniz University Hannover Germany

Josefine Siebenand is the project manager of Landlabs. She is currently working on her PhD in Landscape Architecture and teaching Master’s and Bachelor’s students at the Department of Open Space Planning and Design at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
For her PhD, she is investigating the changeability of urban landscapes in the Anthropocene, and she is passionate about collaborating with students on various aspects of this topic in studios and experimental workshops.

M.Sc. Josefine Siebenand
Project Manager
Leibniz University Hannover Germany

Prof. Dr. Tom Nielsen
Main Supervisor
Research laboratory 1: Transformation
Aarhus School of Architecture

Prof. Dr. Stefan Darlan Boris
Co-Supervisor
Research laboratory 1: Transformation
Aarhus School of Architecture

Laure Baretaud is phd researcher at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark.
She trained in geography and town planning at La Sorbonne Paris IV, and went on to graduate in landscape architecture from ENSP Versailles and the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. Over the next decade, she worked on projects of varied scales and stages. She joined international firm VOGT in London and later opened and led its Paris office, contributing to projects such as Tate Modern Extension, Veolia Headquarters, The Eiffel Tower gardens. Her reflections on her work appeared in Mutation and Morphosis (ed. Lars Muller)
These experiences shaped her research interest in how urban landscapes foster connections between people, other species, and environments, focusing on ecological, aesthetic and imaginative dimensions

M. Sc. Laure Baretaud
Doctoral Candidate

Aarhus School of Architecture

Thomas Juel Clemmensen is a professor of landscape architecture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He trained as an architect at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark, where he also earned his PhD. He has over twenty years of experience in landscape architecture and urban planning and is a member of the Association of Danish Landscape Architects. His primary research interest lies in the transformation of landscapes, focusing on nature-culture heritage and how landscape architecture can facilitate landscape transformations. Additional research interests include the roles of geology and ecology in landscape architecture, the interrelationship between infrastructure and landscape, urban-rural dynamics, and new public domains in urban landscapes. He teaches landscape transformation at the master’s level and supervises PhD students.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Juel Clemmensen
Main Supervisor
Academy of Arts
UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Associate Prof. Dr. Eimear Tynan
Co-Supervisor
Academy of Arts
UiT The Arctic University of Norway

After graduating from the Glasgow School of Art, Bex Browne worked in an architectural office in Berlin, before moving to Aarhus, to take her master’s in architecture. Here, her approach to projects embraced the complexities of a site through its broader relational networks and used hands-on experimental prototyping and drawings to develop design situations. Upon graduation she assisted with various research-based projects that involved, for example, producing transscalar mappings of post-industrial landscapes, and is currently a doctoral candidate at UiT.

M. A. Bex Browne
Doctoral Candidate

The Arctic University of Norway

Ana Kučan is a landscape architect and Professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. She received a MLAUD from Harvard University, GSD and a PhD from University of Ljubljana. She was a member of JoLA and Landscape Architecture Europe editorial teams. Recently, she co-edited Garden and Metaphor(Birkhauser, 2023). In 2007, she co-founded Studio AKKA, a landscape architecture and urban design office. She received national and international awards, exhibited at the Slovenian Pavilion at the 12th Architectural Biennale in Venice (2010) and was a finalist for Rosa Barba Landscape Prize (2006). She currently focuses on research through design strategies to address the challenges of the loss of cultural heritage and climate change.

Prof. Dr. Ana Kučan
Main Supervisor
Department of Landscape Architecture, Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana

Prof. Dr. Mojca Golobič is a landscape architect with a PhD in landscape planning. She was a Fulbright visiting lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Design. After 13 years of experience as a researcher at the Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia, she got a full-time teaching position at the Department for Landscape Architecture at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. She leads the national research program “Landscape as a Living Environment”. Her teaching and research work focuses on methods in environmental and land-use planning, quality of urban environment, policy evaluation and public participation.

Prof. Dr. Mojca Golobič
Co-Supervisor
Department of Landscape Architecture, Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana

Benjamin is a candidate in the interdisciplinary Doctor of Arts program at the University of Ljubljana with a focus on contemporary approaches to eco-heritage landscapes. He practices with Ruderal in Tbilisi, where his research on the post-Soviet urban landscape contributed to the Tbilisi Urban Forest, the Betania Forest Garden, and Arsenal Oasis among other projects. He earned a Master of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard GSD and a Bachelor of Arts at Pomona College, where he was one of the first graduates of the Sustainability in the Built Environment curriculum. His work has been published in SPOOL, the Journal of Urban History, and the Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture.

M. Sc. Benjamin Hackenberger
Doctoral Candidate

University of Ljubljana

José Miguel Lameiras is a Landscape Architect (PhD), Assistant Professor at the University of Porto (FCUP), and Researcher at BIOPOLIS. His work bridges academia, research, and practice, focusing on urban regeneration through green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. He (co)coordinates and contributes to several European projects, including URBiNAT, NBRACER, and GreenInCities. Passionate about innovation, he integrates advanced digital tools into public space design. In Porto, he leads/participates in landscape architecture projects that strengthen climate resilience, such as Alameda de Cartes Park and the Asprela Campus Parks. His work reflects a deep commitment to sustainable, inclusive, and technologically informed urban landscapes.

Prof. Dr. José Miguel Lameiras
Main Supervisor
Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto

Prof. Paulo Farinha Marques
Co-Supervisor
Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto

Cecilia López Prego is an architect with a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture and Teaching (Universities of A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela), with international academic and professional experience in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, the UK and Ireland. She has worked with studios including PROAP (Lisbon), collaborating with David Chipperfield Architects (Shanghai), and The Paul Hogarth Company (Belfast) on landscape architecture, urban design, and planning. Since then she has tackled complex landscape challenges in Galicia through urban and territorial planning projects and strategic environmental assessments with Xunta de Galicia and local councils, and more recently at CITEEC, University of A Coruña.

M. Sc. Cecilia López Prego
Doctoral Candidate

University of Porto

Susann Ahn is Full Professor of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning at TU Wien. Since 2021, she has co-directed the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning at the Institute of Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design at TU Wien, together with Thomas E. Hauck. She studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich and obtained her doctorate from ETH Zurich. In addition to her academic work, she is the founder of AHN Landscape Mediation and a partner at the office Adribo – Modern Conflict Management. As landscape architect, mediator and urban planner she is specialized in the nexus of landscape architecture and communication. Her research, teaching and practice focuses on participative, conflict-resolving, and co-creative methods to foster integrated planning and design processes.

Prof. Dr. Susann Ahn
Main Supervisor
Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
TU Wien

Prof. Dr. Thomas E. Hauck studied landscape and open space planning at Leibniz University Hannover and Edinburgh College of Art and earned his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Since 2021, he has co-led the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning at the Institute of Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design at TU Wien, together with Susann Ahn. In 2013, he initiated the research project Animal-Aided Design (AAD) in collaboration with Wolfgang Weisser (TUM, Chair of Terrestrial Ecology), which led to the founding of Studio Animal-Aided Design (SAAD), where he serves as managing director.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hauck
Co-Supervisor
Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
TU Wien

Arne Markuske is fascinated by urban regions as complex superposition of interacting systems as well as habitat humans, animals and plants. He is interested in designing liveable, walkable and climate-resilient public spaces and urban regions integrating the local as well as the regional scale. Since April 2025, he is a Doctoral Candidate at Technical University Vienna as part of the LANDLABS Doctoral Network. He studied spatial planning and urban design at TU Berlin and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. After his studies, he worked for a public housing company in Berlin and has teached urban design at Technical University Dortmund and Technival University Munich.

M. Sc. Arne Markuske
Doctoral Candidate

TU Wien

Associated partners

Bernd Michaelis
Department of Environment and Urban Greenspace,
Division for Planning and Construction
City of Hannover

Anniken Romuld
Section for urban development
Tromsø Municipality

Pedro Pombeiro
Environmental Management Division
Municipality of Porto

Associated partners

Peter Søgaard
Department of Water and Nature
City of Aarhus

Ana Pantelin
Office for Environment and Spatial Planning
Municipality of Piran (in coorperation with Ljubljana)

Herbert Weidinger
Department for Climate, Forestry and Agriculture (MA 49)
Municipality of Vienna

External Advisory Board

Prof. Sanda Lenzholzer
Chair Holder Landscape Architecture at Wageningen University

Prof. Lisa Diedrich
Professor of Landscape Architecture at the ÉLAN Chair ‘Designing Landscapes of the Anthropocene’ at the Technical University of Berlin

Prof. Teresa Andresen
Former Full Professor at Porto university, now in professional practice
Former president of the European Federation of Landscape ArchitectsUNESCO advisor for landscape heritage

Associated partners

Prof. Antje Stokman
Chair Holder Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning at HafenCity University Hamburg

Prof. Niels Albertsen
Professor emeritus in urban and social theory, former Head of the Department of Landscape and Urbanism, former co-director of the Centre for Strategic Urban Research, Aarhus

Institutions

Institutions

Department of Open Space Planning and Design
Leibniz University Hannover Germany
The Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) is one of the nine leading Institutes of Technology in Germany. Founded in 1831, LUH today serves as a place of study and work for ca. 28,000 students and more than 350 professors across a diverse disciplinary spectrum spanning the natural sciences and engineering, humanities and social sciences, and law and economics.

The Institute of Open Space Planning and Design is part of the Faculty for Architecture and Landscape Sciences and one of three institutes of the Landscape Unit, which has a 75-year experience in research and education for landscape architecture.
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Research laboratory 1: Transformation
Aarhus School of Architecture
The Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA) was established in 1965 and has about 700 students and provides a three-year Bachelor programme, a two-year Master programme, a three-year PhD programme and professional master studies. In 1988, AAA became a research institution and the PhD program was introduced. Since then, AAA has awarded over 100 PhD degrees.
In 2021 AAA moved into the first new-built school of Architecture in Denmark with state-of-the-art workshops and a top of the arts Library.
In its efforts to strengthen architectural research, AAA deliberately works with a broad concept of research that ranges from scientifically founded research over research by design to artistic development work.
In its Research Laboratory ‘Transformation’, AAA combines the professional fields within landscapes, urban development, planning, urban spaces, heritage and buildings, containing material as well as immaterial aspects and mindsets.
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Academy of Arts
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
UiT The Arctic University of Norway is the northernmost university of the world located in Tromsø, Norway. The university was founded in 1968. Today approximately 17000 students and 3500 staff study and work at UiT. The academic community in Tromsø is highly international. More than 20% of the academic staff and 10% of the student body are from abroad.
UiT’s study portfolia covers all classical subject areas from health sciences, social sciences, education and humanities, science and technology to economics, law, social work, tourism, sports and fine arts.
UiT’s key research focuses on the polar environment, climate research, indigenous people, peace and conflict transformation, telemedicine, medical biology, space physics, fishery science, marine biosprospecting, linguistics and computational chemistry.
The landscape architecture programme at UiT is placed at The Academy of Arts. The programme offers a masters degree in landscape architecture giving special emphasis to arctic/subarctic conditions.
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Department of Landscape Architecture, Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana
The University of Ljubljana is the leading education and research institution in Slovenia spanning across a diverse disciplinary spectrum from natural sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law and economics to art, at 26 full members, including 3 art academies. The Department of Landscape Architecture of the Biotechnical Faculty has its own research programme funded by the National Research Agency (Landscape as a Living Environment). UL will start a doctoral programme in art (RTD) in 2024-2025.
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Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
TU Wien
The Technische Universitaet Wien was founded in 1815. It is Austria’s largest research and educational institution in the field of technology and natural sciences with more than 26,000 students in 62 degree programs, and more than 4,000 scientists in five main research areas at eight faculties. Prof. Dr. sc. Susann Ahn and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas E. Hauck share a joint professorship at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, and are heads of the Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning. They teach landscape architecture and landscape planning to more than 7,400 students in the study program of architecture as well as the study program of spatial planning. Their research and teaching are dedicated to post-anthropocentric approaches reflecting self-dynamic and conflict-resolution processes in urban planning projects with the aim of co-habitation.
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Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto
University of Porto (UPO) is Portugal’s second largest university and one of the most prestigious teaching and research institutions in the country. It has over 31.000 students (around 1500 international students) and 2300 full-time academic staff. This high qualification level of the teaching staff, combined with advanced lab technology and equipment, as well as the close connections with the business world ensure first-class training. The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) aims at generating and disseminate knowledge in Science and Technology in order to contribute to the grand Society Global Challenges. FCUP has large experience in European Projects with several previous EU grants in FP6, FP7, in H2020 and in Horizon Europe.
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Department of Open Space Planning and Design
Leibniz University Hannover Germany

The Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) is one of the nine leading Institutes of Technology in Germany. Founded in 1831, LUH today serves as a place of study and work for ca. 28,000 students and more than 350 professors across a diverse disciplinary spectrum spanning the natural sciences and engineering, humanities and social sciences, and law and economics.

The Institute of Open Space Planning and Design is part of the Faculty for Architecture and Landscape Sciences and one of three institutes of the Landscape Unit, which has a 75-year experience in research and education for landscape architecture.
Learn more

Research laboratory 1: Transformation
Aarhus School of Architecture

The Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA) was established in 1965 and has about 700 students and provides a three-year Bachelor programme, a two-year Master programme, a three-year PhD programme and professional master studies. In 1988, AAA became a research institution and the PhD program was introduced. Since then, AAA has awarded over 100 PhD degrees.
In 2021 AAA moved into the first new-built school of Architecture in Denmark with state-of-the-art workshops and a top of the arts Library.
In its efforts to strengthen architectural research, AAA deliberately works with a broad concept of research that ranges from scientifically founded research over research by design to artistic development work.
In its Research Laboratory ‘Transformation’, AAA combines the professional fields within landscapes, urban development, planning, urban spaces, heritage and buildings, containing material as well as immaterial aspects and mindsets.
Learn more

Academy of Arts
UiT The Arctic University of Norway

UiT The Arctic University of Norway is the northernmost university of the world located in Tromsø, Norway. The university was founded in 1968. Today approximately 17000 students and 3500 staff study and work at UiT. The academic community in Tromsø is highly international. More than 20% of the academic staff and 10% of the student body are from abroad.
UiT’s study portfolia covers all classical subject areas from health sciences, social sciences, education and humanities, science and technology to economics, law, social work, tourism, sports and fine arts.
UiT’s key research focuses on the polar environment, climate research, indigenous people, peace and conflict transformation, telemedicine, medical biology, space physics, fishery science, marine biosprospecting, linguistics and computational chemistry.
The landscape architecture programme at UiT is placed at The Academy of Arts. The programme offers a masters degree in landscape architecture giving special emphasis to arctic/subarctic conditions.
Learn more

Department of Landscape Architecture, Biotechnical Faculty
University of Ljubljana

The University of Ljubljana is the leading education and research institution in Slovenia spanning across a diverse disciplinary spectrum from natural sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law and economics to art, at 26 full members, including 3 art academies. The Department of Landscape Architecture of the Biotechnical Faculty has its own research programme funded by the National Research Agency (Landscape as a Living Environment). UL will start a doctoral programme in art (RTD) in 2024-2025.
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Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture,
Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning
TU Wien

The Technische Universitaet Wien was founded in 1815. It is Austria’s largest research and educational institution in the field of technology and natural sciences with more than 26,000 students in 62 degree programs, and more than 4,000 scientists in five main research areas at eight faculties. Prof. Dr. sc. Susann Ahn and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas E. Hauck share a joint professorship at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, and are heads of the Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning. They teach landscape architecture and landscape planning to more than 7,400 students in the study program of architecture as well as the study program of spatial planning. Their research and teaching are dedicated to post-anthropocentric approaches reflecting self-dynamic and conflict-resolution processes in urban planning projects with the aim of co-habitation.
Learn more

Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto

University of Porto (UPO) is Portugal’s second largest university and one of the most prestigious teaching and research institutions in the country. It has over 31.000 students (around 1500 international students) and 2300 full-time academic staff. This high qualification level of the teaching staff, combined with advanced lab technology and equipment, as well as the close connections with the business world ensure first-class training. The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) aims at generating and disseminate knowledge in Science and Technology in order to contribute to the grand Society Global Challenges. FCUP has large experience in European Projects with several previous EU grants in FP6, FP7, in H2020 and in Horizon Europe.
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