The LANDLABS program trains Doctoral Candidates to develop new approaches to understanding and enhancing the sustainability and beauty of urban landscapes in the Anthropocene. The initiative brings together researchers from several universities along with municipal planning partners.
Each of the six PhD candidates will work with a local planning department on a specific landscape heavily impacted by human activities, which will serve as a “landscape laboratory” for testing design strategies. The research focuses on creating sustainable and beautiful urban landscapes.
The training is divided into two phases: during the first two years, each candidate will focus on their individual landscape site and theory. In the third year, all PhD candidates will collaborate in a virtual PhD lab to develop shared theories, evaluation criteria, and design strategies. As part of their dissertation, candidates are required to write three papers: two individual and one joint.
A working knowledge of the countries language where you apply is also beneficial.
