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Spring Degree Presentations to be Held May 23 + 24
You are invited to attend the Sustainable Urban Design spring master's thesis presentations this week in the Great Hall at Lund University's School of Architecture.
The presentations will be held on Thursday, May 24, and Friday, May 25 with 4 students presenting their work on the revitalization of neighborhoods in Macedonia, Sweden, and Canada. The schedule of the presentations is as follows:
Thursday, May 23rd
09:00 Sara Rudolfsson
10:30 Jelena Kotevska
Friday, May 24th
09:30 Joacim Dahlberg
11:00 Manon Otto
To learn more about the students research and design visions, please check out their project summaries HERE. We look forward to seeing you all there to share in these 2 exciting days of presentations.
Sustainable Urban Landscape Final Presentations
You are invited to attend the Sustainable Urban Landscape final presentations this week in the Great Hall at Lund University's School of Architecture!
The presentations will be held on Tuesday, May 21, and Wednesday, May 22 with the course's 23 participants showing their sustainable visions for the urban and landscape design of the area around Skalderviken. The proposals range from visions for strengthening the integration of the local agricultural landscape with the existing villages to explorations on the impact and potential transformative power of sea level rise. All proposals use a proposed commuter train stop between Helsingborg and Angelholm as the basis for their work. Collectively the proposals present a wide variety of design solution that are based on the student's studies of the regional landscape, the ecological impacts of urban development, and the contextual qualities of the design site.
A series of guest critics including SUDes guest professors Harrison Fraker and Donlyn Lyndon will join for the two days of reviews. The presentations will start at 9:15 on Tuesday and 9:45 on Wednesday and begin an exciting week of presentations within the SUDes master's program.
SUDes Students Win 2nd Prize with Their Proposal 'INLund'
SUDes master's students Anna kravec, Felix Kruger, Gisli Rafn Gudmundsson, Young Ill Kim and Suzanna Rubino received the shared second prize in an open student competition aimed to bring a new meeting point with the power to connect Ideon, LTH and the community of Lund.
All five students are currently enrolled in the 2nd semester of the master's program and are course mates in the Sustainable Urban Landscape design studio. Their proposal, "INLund" was recognized in a ceremony on April 23, 2013 at the Faculty of Engineering. Along with the shared second prize, their proposal received a special prize for the best name suggestion.
All of the competition entries in the competition entitled 'Sustainability in Lund' will be exhibited at the Lund Central Station (Lund C) between April 26 and May 16. The showroom is open weekdays 08:30 to 18:30. Make sure to stop by and celebrate all the great proposals
You can find more information and a complete list of the competition winners here.
Sustainable Urban Dynamics Course Book Now Available
The new Sustainable Urban Dynamics 12 Course book is now printed! The book summarizes all the student's research and design work from this past falls design studio and highlights the course's context sensitive design approach to urban development in China.
This year's book focuses on the student's design site in the Pingshan district of Shenzhen and highlights a number of intriguing strategies to integrated the existing site conditions with the districts global ambitions. The book includes a summary of the student's 70 hectare design site, the students research on the social, economic, and environmental contexts shaping the Pearl River Delta, an outline of course's structure & aims, the course's guest critics, and a two page summary of each of the student's work.
The book will be distributed to last year's guest lectures and critics, all of the studio participants, and will be utilized as an educational tool for those interest in sustainable urban development in China.
Find out more about the Sustainable Urban Dynamics studio here.
Sustainable Urban Landscape Students Travel to Edinburgh
Recently the Sustainable Urban Landscape studio returned from a 6 day study trip to Scotland. The trip focused on exploring the relationship between the natural landscape and urban settlements around Edinburgh, the Kingdom of Fife, and Holy Island.
The trip included 3 day long walking tours in Edinburgh that focused the city's relationship to its natural surroundings and its unique urban landscape. Teachers Par Gustafsson and Henrik Johanesson discussed the history of Edinburgh, the planning of Craig's new town, and the relationship between the city's natural landscape and its urban development. Student were also given the time to explore the city's riverwalk, take measurements of key public spaces, and develop a series of sketches to highlight the cities different urban design lessons.
Along with the walking tours in Edinburgh, the students explored the spatial characteristics of 3 Scottish villages and the university town of St. Andrews. These important stops on the tour gave the students the opportunity to map and study the development and characteristics of a series of villages. The days in Edinburgh were concluded by a poetic and insightful lecture by Eelco Hooftman of Gross.Max.
The students will use their research and findings as they continue to work with their design project that focuses on a series of villages outside of Angelholm, Sweden.
SUDes Course Leader a Team Member of the Winning Proposal for Kiruna
Recently, a jury selected White Architecture's proposal Kiruna 4-ever as the winner of an international urban design competition for the future planning of Kiruna, Sweden. White's proposal was selected from 10 proposals from the likes of MVRDV, KCAP, Kobe, and others. The competition was held to find the best strategy for moving the city of Kiruna in relationship to the surrounding mining operations.
Ă…sa Bjerndell, SUDes Urban Recycling Course Leader, was a contributing team member for White's proposal. White's proposal centered on ideas on how and where to move Kiruna based on a knowledge of what exists today, along with a strong vision for how the city's future can be developed. Ă…sa's role in the proposal included helping develop the projects strategic development concepts and urban planning processes.
Read more about White's proposal here.
SUDes Student Presenting at Crafting the Future
Recently, SUDes Masters student Andre Patrao has been accepted to present a paper at the 10th European Academy of Design Conference, entitled Crafting the Future.
The theme of the conference is design practice and its relationship business development and social change. The conference asks designer to present on different ways to answer the question, how can the specific knowledge of designers be brought forward, articulated, made visible and be understood and used in contexts like innovation, business development and social change?
The basis for Andre's accepted paper was inspired by his studies in Lund, and it will be a structuring part of his on-going thesis work.
For more information see http://www.craftingthefuture.<wbr></wbr>se/.
SUDes Faculty Members Announced Competition Winners
On February 21st, SUDes faculty members Martin Arfalk and Nicholas Bigelow were recognized as part of the winning team for the competition Future Floda. The winning team also included SUDes thesis student Gregorio Chierici. Their proposal "Down by the River" was completed as a collaboration between Mandaworks and Hosper Sweden.
Of the 59 proposals submitted, the jury appointed "Down by the River" the winner. The award was presented in a ceremony in Lerum with the jury saying, "Down by the River focuses on and develops Floda's strongest qualities: water, nature, and Garveriet. The public spaces along Savean refine and develop Floda's existing character and identity as a community around the water. The proposal's hook is the Blue Square - an innovative reinterpretation of the square as a public space where the rushing river creates a natural spectacle all year round."
Martin Arfalk is the founder and director of Mandaworks. Nicholas Bigelow and Gregorio Chierici are urban designers currently working for Mandaworks. Together, Martin and Nick direct and tutor the Sustainable Urban Dynamics studio within the SUDes master's program.
Discover more about the proposal on Swedish Architects competitions page.
DEGREE PRESENTATION
Place: "Fullskale Labbet, School of Architecture, Sölvegatan 24
Time: Friday, 22nd of February
09.00 LALEH FOROUGHANFAR
(PS/MA) HF, NdB,
10:30 AMR BALAH
(PS/NdB) HF, MA,
Examiner:
Peter Sjöström (PS), ass Professor, Director of SUDes, LTH
Supervisors:
Martin Arfalk (MA), Landscape Architect, Owner MANDAWORKS
Malmö - Amsterdam
Niels de Bruin (NdB), Senior Landscape Architect and Director
at White Architechts Malmö
Jury:
Harrison Fraker (HF), Professor of Architecture and Urban design,
College of Environmental Design Berkeley USA
Sustainable Urban Recycling opens exhibition in Helsingborg
The unique projects of the students in the “Sustainable Urban Recycling” course make the object of an exhibition titled “Helsingborg Tramlines: Connecting the City, Making Places”.
The exhibition is organized by SUDes with the support of Sparvagnar i Skane (Trams in Skane) and the City of Helsingborg. It provides insight into 38 student works that works challenge conventional notions of sustainability and propose new structures preparing and supporting the processes of urban transformation in Helsingborg along new tramlines.
The exhibition is open to the public until the 8th of February, Monday-Fridays between 8:30 and 17:00 at the Helsingborg Planning Department entrance hall, Jarnvagsgatan 22, Helsingborg.
More about the event: [Sparvagnar i Skane].
SUDes & Malmo City hold Visionary Image Workshop
Recently, a number of SUDes thesis students took part in an image workshop organized by the master’s program and Malmo Stad. The workshop took place over 3 days and included lectures from development and urban planning professionals and input on image development from SUDes alumni Dziugas Lukosevicius.
The workshop focused on developing inspiring images for future development in Malmo. The areas of Hyllie in southern Malmo and Kirseberg in northeastern part of the city. Images ranged from bird’s eye perspective that showed the future green structure to collages that showed the transformation of Malmo urban edge.
DEGREE PRESENTATION
Place: Exhibition hall, School of Architecture, Sölvegatan 24
Time: Thursday, 13th of December
08.30 Gabrielle Blais-Dufour
(PS/MA) HF, LLö, LLi
10:00 Sussaangana Unhasuta
(PS/GK) HF, LLö, LLi
11:30 Omer Karoum
(PS/LLö) HF, GK, LLi
Examiner:
Peter Sjöström (PS), ass Professor, Director of SUDes, LTH
Supervisors:
Martin Arfalk (MA), Landscape Architect, Owner MANDAWORKS
Malmö - Amsterdam
Gunilla Kronvall (GK), Architect, Ph.d Candidate SLU Alnarp, Non
executive director, faculty of Engineering LTH
Louise Lövenstierne (LLö), Architect SWECO Helsingborg
Jury:
Harrison Fraker (HF), Professor of Architecture and Urban design,
College of Environmental Design Berkeley USA
Laura Liuke (LLi), Architect, Lecturer Department of Housing
Development & Management, LTH
SUDes Final Reviews Ongoing
The final presentations for Sustainable Urban Recycling and Sustainable Urban Dynamics are being held on December 11th and 12th. The 2 design studios have been held over a 15 week period this fall with the Sustainable Urban Recycling focusing its work on revitalize of Helsingborg along future tram lines and Sustainable Urban Dynamics looking at the transformation of a site in the Pingshan district of Shenzhen, China.
Guests for the two days include international guests from Denmark, Holland, and USA as well as a number of distinguished guests from around Sweden. The 2 days includes presentations from over 60 students currently studying in the program's studios.
Presentations begin 9:15 and run throughout the day. Please join us for an exciting 2 days at the School of Architecture in Lund.
SUDes & PKU Present Workshop Results in Shenzhen, China
Recently the students of the Sustainable Urban Dynamics studio returned home from a 12 day workshop & study trip to the Pearl River Delta region in southern China. The focus of the trip was a 5 day collaborative workshop entitled 'Connecting Futures' in which 29 students from Lund University’s Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program and 36 students from Peking University’s Graduate School of Landscape Architecture took part. In mixed groups, the students participated in a site visit, lectures by Pingshan’s Urban Planning office, and 3 intense days of group work and tutorials before presenting their final visions.
With participating students from over 12 countries, the aim of the workshop was to envision & present a context sensitive urban design proposal for the transformation of an existing urban village that connects the coming regional train line, the planned Shenzhen metro line 12 and the Pingshan Business District with the more historic fabric of the original village core. The workshop was designed to jump start the students design process and forced each group to act quickly, utilize their field observations, and think conceptually to gather starting points for their future work.
The workshop's results were presented on October 12 to an international jury that included Barry Wilson of Initiatives; Philip Lai of Arup; Martin Arfalk of Mandaworks / Lund University; Nick Bigelow, Peter Siöstrom and Lars Henrik Ståhl of Lund University; and Han Xili of Peking University. The proposal entitled “City Flow” won the first prize. The group included Edda Ivarsdottir, Nadia Petersson, Boris Yordanov, Zheng Qingzhi, Xiang Yuanyuan, Ding Mingjun and Shi Rongxin.
During the trip, the students also had the opportunity to gain insight into the Pearl River Delta region through study trips to Hong Kong and Guangzhou. During the trips, the student had the opportunity to visit urban development projects they had studied in Sweden, gain insight from local tour guides and immerse themselves in Chinese culture by visiting local neighborhoods.
Applications for 2013
The application period, for the Master's Programme in Sustainable Urban Design is now open.
The application period will be open from October 16th, 2012 until January 15th, 2013. For more information go to the Admissions page. You can also get more information and begin your application at University Admissions.se
Learn more about the program by downloading the 2012 version of the SUDes programme guide.
See the Reflections on the 7th Annual SUDes Conference
The 7th annual conference sponsored by SUDes, the Sustainable Urban Design Program at Lund University was set within an ambitious agenda:
“Urban designers are rethinking the search for urban form: probing for deeper meanings, exploring different narratives, searching for hidden dimensions and representing the ephemeral flows of daily life, all in an effort to create a more enriching, meaningful and sustainable urban existence.”
- Conference program SUDes12
With the idea, that urban places of distinction are those that draw from larger ideas, but are formed in ways that are specific, shaped by the social and environmental forces at play in the locale. They may be defined in ways that establish a particular identity, reveal the importance of underlying conditions of the land and natural process, and support the evolution of new forms of understanding. At the same time they should provide and affirm the pleasures of being present. Places are benchmarks of community aspiration.
With these ambitions, 6 international speakers presented their individual work and research on the topic of Urban Specifics to explore the understanding and use of contextual conditions within the search for Resilient Cities. You are all invited to see the Conference Report at the following link: Conference Report 2012. We look forward to seeing you all next year for another exciting conference!!!
Alumni Gathering In Shanghai
Recently six SUDes alumni and Sustainable Urban Dynamics Studio Master Martin Arfalk met in Shanghai to share their different perspectives on China and the on-going urban transformation happening their. The alumni included Tadas Jokubauskas (2011) and Kun Hua (2011) of CPG Corporation, Tamara Pavlovic (2011) of DLR Group WWCOT, Liu Hailan (2012) and Haoxia Chen (2012) of RTKL, and Nicholas Bigelow (2011) of Lund University / Mandaworks.
The evening was filled with great food, memories of studying in Lund, and of discussions on the professional practice of urban design in China.
Welcome to the 7th Annual SUDes Conference
- Lina Dahlström, Architect, Sydväst, Malmö
- Nicholas de Monchaux, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley
- Ewa Westermark, Architect, Gehl Architects, Copenhagen
- Brian MacKay-Lyons, Professor of Architecture, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Kelly Shannon, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Institute of Urbanism & Landscape, Oslo School of Architecture & Design
- Dan Stubbegaard, Architect, director and founder of COBE, Copenhagen
LTH app for Android and iPhone
New Students! LTH has introduced it's first web app to help you settle in at the Sustainable Urban Design Programme!
A new term begins at LTH. A lot happens in the first few weeks: academic introduction, team-building activities, lectures and, not least, learning to find one’s way around Lund and student life.
To make the new student's life easier, LTH has launched a free iPhone and Android application. ”LTH Guide”. It is designed to help them find their way around Lund and the LTH campus, to display their current schedule, and provide a map to guide them to their lecture halls. The application is the first one of its kind at Swedish colleges and universities. With the information literally at their fingertips the new students will find it easier to familiarize themselves with everything Lund has to offer, be it studies, entertainment, culture, or simply a cup of coffee.
SUDes Hosts 1st Annual Alumni Gathering
Last Friday evening, SUDes held its first ever alumni gathering in Lund. With former students coming from all over the Oresund Region, the meeting gave alumni a chance to reconnect and discuss their professional opportunities since graduating and enjoy the night catching up. The event, in typical SUDes fashion, was an potluck style meal with each alumni bringing a dish to share with the group.
SUDes director Peter Siostrom and Guest Professor Harrison Fraker joined the festivities and added to the discussion. Topics on the table included recent urban design competitions in Scandinavia, Thai cuisine and tropical fruit production, and next fall's SUDes conference.
With the success of the first ever event, the group discussed the ambition of making the gathering a new annual tradition in the SUDes program. Keep posted on alumni activities through the SUDes Alumni facebook pages as we hope to see the event grow and all the SUDes alumni again in Fall.
Final Reviews of Sustainable Urban Landscape
On May 23rd and 24th the 30 students from the Sustainable Urban Landscape course presented their final projects. Utilizing the context of courses 2 sites, 30 students presented a series of visions for how to work with urban infill to enhance urban green structures, open stormwater management systems, and strategies for integrating wildlife into the urban environment.
The final review was the culmination of the 15 week course that included in-depth studies on the Oresund Region, case studies on best practices for working with the urban landscape, and a series of seminars that brought forward theoretical discussion on the integration of landscape and urbanism.
With the contrasting sites of the Northern Harbor in Copenhangen and the village of Rydebäck in Sweden, the discussions took everyone involved on a tour of the challenges within the Oresund and a range of design discussions that included the treatment of post industrial landscape and innovative strategies for the integration of eco-tourism in the urban environment. The jury included Harrison Fraker and Donlyn Lyndon from UC Berkeley, Frida Rosenburg from KTH in Stockholm, Karin Helms from the Landscape Architecture School in Versailles, Martin Arfalk from Mandaworks, and Louis Lovenstein of Sweco.
The sustainable urban landscape studios work is now on exhibition throughout the Architecture building with other work from the schools studios.
SUDes Thesis Students Present Work
On May 21 and 22, 5 SUDes master's students presented their thesis works to an international jury that included guest critics Laura Lee of Carnegie Mellon University, Johanna Vittenmark of Lund's Municipality, and Louise Lovenstein of Sweco Architects along with guest professors Harison Fraker and Donlyn Lyndon of University of California - Berkley.
Each student presented their project on a personal research interest through their personal vision for an implementable design on a project site of their choice. With site's ranging from the post industrial landscapes of Oslo and Beijing to a proposal for the redevelopment of a monumental building site in Bucharest, the thesis students challenged existing visions for urban development patterns throughout the world.
Each students design project was the result of a semester's work in which they lead the design process, developed their research into a thesis manual, and worked with a design tutor of their choosing to develop a site specific design proposal. The 5 presenting students were Haoxia Chen (China), Liu Hailin (China), Delia Moldoveanu (Romania), Samin Salehi (Iran), Mashoumeh Mirsafay Moqaddam (Iran).
We wish these 5 thesis students the best of luck and want to congratulate them on their accomplishments over the past 2 years!!!
2 SUDes Students Win UngBo 12 Competition
Recently two SUDes students, Danny Bridson and Delia Moldoveanu independently won portions of the Ung Bo 12 competition. The on-going competition seeks innovative housing solutions for the housing shortage for young people in Malmo, Sweden. The competition focuses on one or two of Malmo's city districts each month.
Danny Bridson, from Toronto, Canada, won the competition for transforming an existing block in Torenrosen through his concept 'Torenrosen Deconstructed.' Utilizing parts of his proposal from the urban recycling course, Danny's proposal shows how an aging modernist block can be re-structure into a more diverse and human scale block over a process of time.
Delia Moldoveanu, a current thesis student in the SUDes program, also won a portion of the Ung Bo Competition with her idea to 'Build your neighborhood on the rooftop'. Delia proposal utilizes the flat roof of the BellevuegĂĄrdsbibliotek complex to rethink the possibility of rooftop living by developing it into a youth neighborhood. Delia describes the work by stating, 'mixing a public library and commerce with housing creates a hybrid-architectural object; an indispensable component for a resilient city. To be able to occupy different rooftops of various shapes and sizes, I propose a small module that is easy to place in the desired position. The result is an affordable living environment for a happy community.'
The win netted both Danny and Delia 25,000 SEK in prize money and a 15,000 SEK travel scholarship in which they both hope to use to further their studies in urban design by investigating quality public spaces in Europe. Please check out Danny, Delia's and all the other proposals at www.ungbo12.se/en and take part in the conversation to help find the most innovative ways to solve Malmo's housing for young people.
Sustainable Urban Recycling Currently Exhibiting Work in Malmo's Stadhuset
On Tuesday March 27, the students of Sustainable Urban Recycling formally opened an exhibition of their work with a vernissage in Malmo's city hall. The exhibition is a collaboration between Malmö Stad, the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design, and the Sustainable Urban Design (SUDes) master's program at Lund University.
The opening included short presentations by Göran Rosberg and Magdalena Alevrà as well as course leaders Åsa Bjerndell and Niels de Bruin.
The exhibition focuses on highlighting new and innovative ideas for the reuse of 5 different linear sites on the evolving eastern edge of Malmö's city center. The projects range from time based approaches for urban infill to proposals for urban agriculture to discussions on potential parasitic structures to active key neighborhood public spaces.
The exhibition is available for public visit from Monday thru Friday from 9-5 until the 11th of May. The exhibition is located in the hallway outside the conference room in Malmö's Stadshuset (city hall).
Klas Tham Lecture
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On Wednesday, 28 March 13:00, Klas Tham visits the School of Architecture and will lecture in the Sustainable Urban Landscape course. Other courses are invited to take part in the lecture. The designer of the BO01 project will lecture on his overall credo on architecture, landscape architecture and urban life in the lecture The Humane in Architecture. The lecture will be in hall A:B.
Mid-Term Presentations in Sustainable Urban Landscape 2012
On March 19th the Sustainable Urban Landscape course had their mid-term review with guests Louise Lövenstierne, Ulrika Bjärtman, Maria Flores, and Karl Welin together with course leaders Jeppe Aagaard Andersen and Carley Friesen.
The studio projects this term are situated in Rydebäck on the Swedish side of the Öresund, and in Copenahgen on the Danish side of the Öresund. The course deals with creating a regional strategy, then focusing on the natural and constructed landscapes and systems in the city, and proposing sustainable solutions.
Final Presentation for Sustainable Urban Recycling and Sustainable Urban Dynamics
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The final presentations on December 6th and 7th were a great success, with two days full of meaningful discussions. A special thanks to all the guest crits.
Final Reviews
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The final reviews for the studios Sustainable Urban Recycling and Sustainable Urban Dynamics will take place on December 6th and December 7th at the new School of Architecture in the Great Hall and the Full Scale Lab. See the poster for more information!
Urban Dynamics course in China
Recently the students of the Sustainable Urban Design studio return home from a 10 day study trip to Beijing, ChinaAs part of the course, the study trip focused on globalization through the perspective of the rapid urban development of China.
During the trip the students completed a workshop entitled 'Sustaining Beijing Tomorrow.'This international collaboration was marked by a series of guest lectures, a day long site visit, and 3 days of group work and tutorials. The workshop's results were presented on October 14 to an international jury and marks an on-going partnership between the SUDes program at Lund University and Peking University's Graduate School of Landscape Architecture.
With 54 student participating from over 12 countries, the goal of the workshop was to investigate the strategic transformation of the neighborhoods surrounding the National Gallery in Beijing, China.On the final day of the workshop, each student group was asked to present a vision for future of the area with a particular emphasis on sustainability.During the trip the students also had the opportunity to attend the 'Designed Ecologies' Forum at Peking University, visit urban development projects around Beijing they had studied in Sweden, and immerse themselves in Chinese culture by visiting historic sites such as The Great Wall and The Forbidden City.
More information about [ Sustainable Urban Dynamics ].
Applications For Autumn 2012 Are Open
The application period for the Masters of Sustainable Urban Design Programme starting August 2012 is now open. Learn more about applying at universityadmissions.se.
Urban Water, Urban Form and _1 Release
On September 21st the Sustainable Urban Design Programme at the School of Architecture hosted the 6th annual workshop conference, this year entitled Urban Water, Urban Form. Over 200 students and professionals attended, to engage in discussion about urban water issues.
The conference was also an opening for the first SUDes Publication, _1. The publication is a journal of the best student work from the last years of the urban design programme. Essays, studio projects, and interviews combine to create a publication which represents the diversity of the programme.
Learn more about the [annual conference.]
Learn more about [SUDes Publishing.]
SUDes Conference 2011
The 6th annual SUDes conference will take place on September 21st. This year we will have a one day conference with lecturers from around the world, and lots of time for discussion with the acclaimed guests.
Dilip da Cunha [ Mathur/da Cunha, USA ]
Marieke Timmermans [ la4sale, The Netherlands ]
Martin Felsen [ Urban Lab, USA ]
Kongjian Yu [ Turenscape, China ]
Jeppe Aagaard Andersen [ JAAA, Denmark ]
Kristian Skovbakke [ Gehl Architects, Denmark ]
See the full schedule and description of this year's theme, Urban Water, Urban Form [here.] For more information and to learn about past SUDes conferences visit our conference [page].
Final Reviews
The final reviews for the semester concluded on Wednesday evening. Students from Urban Recycling and Urban Dynamics presented their work in the Full Scale Lab, with four simultaneous jury sessions. The conversation carried through into the reception held after the presentations, together with guest critics and professors.
Final Reviews : Urban Recycling and Urban Dynamics
On monday, december 6th through tuesday, december 7th, the SUDes programme will carry out the final presentations for the two design studios, Sustainable Urban Recycling, and Sustainable Urban Dynamics.
The group of panelists who will critique the presentations includes architects from Sweden, Denmark and the United States.
New Image for the SUDes Programme
The Sustainable Urban Design programme is launching a new cover image. The new photo was created by Dziugas Lukosevicius, M.Sc. Sustainable Urban Design 2010. He created the image during the Sustainable Urban Dynamics studio in 2009, when the site for the project was the post-olympic park in Beijing.
“The image shows a public space created by reusing urban components. Sometimes the social sustainability factors are forgotton when we focus on energy, green roofs, etc. I was focusing on the public spaces.”
The image was created as a collage. The existing Bird’s Nest Arena has new functions laced into its structure. A mixed-use area was introduced to create a tight street around the iconic building.
“I think the image is provocative because of the proximity of the different scales,” Dziugas says.
The director of the SUDes programme, Peter Siöström thinks the image sums up current issues in sustainable urban design. He says the image shows the global scale, but also details the humanistic aspects of sustainability.
“The image shows the mixed interests of the city, from a global icon and down to daily life. The two come together to create a high-quality public realm.”
The [SUDes programme guide] has been updated. It now includes up to date information on the programme study trips, guest lectures, and collaborations. It also includes a section on the degree projects that have been published in the programme the last year.
The updates are taking place as the application period is fast approaching. The application period begins December 1, 2010 and is open until January 15, 2011. For more information or if you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us.
Berlin, Sustainable Urban Process
The course Urban Process went on a weekend study trip to Berlin last weekend. The German city of Berlin is relatively close to Lund, only around a 6 hour train ride, or a very quick flight. Berlin has excellent examples of urban design processes, ranging from long-term projects, to 'guerilla' style development.
Study Trip China 2010
The second year course in Sustainable Urban Dynamics, recently returned from a 3 week study trip to China. The study trip included a trip to the Shanghai Expo. The students visited various pavillions, including a visit to the Swedish Pavillion during Architecture week, where they heard a series of lectures pertaining to Swedish/Chinese collaboration in the development industry.
This year, the groups itinerary involved travels to some of the smaller Chinese cities where they studied urbanization of smaller communities and it's impact on environmental systems.
More information on the [workshop during the trip can be found here.]
Sustainable Urban Design in Shanghai
Masters students from the Sustainable Urban Design programme were involved in a urban design workshop and competition as part of the [Shanghai Expo 2010]. The theme of this year's expo is "Better Cities, Better Life" and SUDes students had a change to participate in creating future visions and strategies in a chinese context. The international student competition was held together with chinese students from Fudan University and Tongji University.
Sustainable Urban Design Workshop Conference
On September 20th to 21st the School of Architecture hosted the fifth annual [Sustainable Urban Design Workshop Conference]. The theme of the international and interdisciplinary conference was Urban Green, Urban Form. Guests from Sweden, Denmark and the U.S.A shared about architecture and urban design that responds to environmental issues; from both scientific and social perspectives.
Following the conference lecture series, students and professionals participated in a design charette, dealing with urban form, urban green in the city of Lund. In a 24 hour intense workshop, 16 proposals were made dealing with issues such as knowledge accessibility in the city, urban green as an object, and urban agriculture.
Read the [task and see the list of speakers here].
View the [Sustainable Urban Design Conference proposals here].
Shanghai Expo 2010
The 2009 studio in Sustainable Urban Dynamics entitled The Beijing Olympic Park Post-Olympics : From the Spaces of the Event to Everyday Places, is now on exhibition in the Swedish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo in China.
A design workshop was carried out in September 2009 in Shenzhen where the students of Sustainable Urban Dynamics met with GLSA students at Peking University to discuss and design future possibilities for the Beijing Olympic Park. The result of this workshop forms the content of the exhibition, which will be on display throughout Architecture week at the Expo.
View more from the exhibition [here].
City In Progress : Sustainable Urban Design in Malmö
The studio “Sustainable Urban Recycling” organized and took part in an exhibition in Malmö town hall.
To see the exhibition online visit, [SUDes blog] or [Bergen blog].
This exhibition brings together the creative forces and visions of students from the school of Architecture at the University of Lund, Bergen School of Architecture and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp The exhibition shows the students visions on how the city can grow in a sustainable way.
WOOD 2010 : Virserum Konsthall
The Master programme in sustainable urban design is a part of the WOOD 2010 and Wood Summit SmĂĄland 2010 - the third major exhibition for the promotion of wood construction and sustainable architecture at [Virserum Art Museum].
View more from the exhibition [here].
Emerging Urban Form Workshop
Students in the course Sustainable Urban Dynamics participated in a two-day workshop with Paul Loh of Diploma unit 4 (University of East London, School of Architecture and Visual Arts) and David Leggett of Edward Cullinan Architects.
The workshop focused on post-Olympic usage of the masterplan developed for Beijing Olympic in 2008. Students developed techniques to deal with the super-large site resulting in a series of hand-made collages, and then translated into a series of 3-dimensional relief study models - part landscape and part emerging urban form.
View more of the work the [Diploma unit 4 website].
Urban Visions Workshop
Students from Lund University participated in a one-week, intensive workshop to create vision images for the city of Malmö. The images revolved around themes which the city is currently addressing in their ongoing development projects. The images produced will be used in future documents generated by the city.
Some of the images were published in a Malmö urban design news magazine [here].
Fourth Annual Sustainable Urban Design Conference
On September14th and 15th, Lund University will host the fourth annual SUDes Workshop Conference. The two day conference involves a lecture series with international designers, and a design charette bringing together designers from over four different universities.
You can listen to the [lecture series on podcast].
"The carbon neutral city has become a shared vision to a sustainable world. The continuing development in cities must shift towards carbon neutral processes. Immense thought has been invested into this field over the recent years from technical solutions to utopian ideals. The realization of this new sensitive urban environment is a task requiring a combination of visionary schemes and grounded strategies. The task at hand is to delve deep into a specific site in Lund and formulate design solutions that could aid such a change."
Sustainable Urban Recycling Exhibition
The projects from the first year Master’s course, Sustainable Urban Recycling, are now on exhibition at the Malmö City Hall. Over 20 proposals were created by the Master’s and ERASMUS students during the fall semester, and were opened to the public on June 26th, 2009. The project called for a strengthening of the urban path leading from the new Triangeln station, to the housing area of Rosengård. The proposals cover a broad range of sites and topics including sustainable public transportation, reuse of urban infrastructure, and desirable public spaces.
The exhibition includes the proposals as well as an interactive urban design wall, and a large-scale satellite photo of the site.
The exhibition will remain open until August 2009, and is located at August Palms Plats 1 in Malmö.
View more from the [exhibition here].
SLU Alnarp Landscape Workshop
Students from the SUDes Programme participated in a one day workshop at SLU Alnarp. Student groups were given a site on the campus, and then challenged to use simple materials to create a landscape installation.
Landskrona Public Presentations and Exhibition
The students from the first year Master’s course, Sustainable Urban Landscape presented and installed and exhibition of their final projects on May 26th, 2009. The presentations took place in the Landskrona City Hall and were attended by city officials, residents, and local media.
The presentations outlined the work of the entire studio, as well as focusing on some of the details of urban and rural landscape, which were discussed throughout the course. After the presentations, there was a question and discussion period, which included concerns about the existing station area in the city, the meaning of density and the current density in various parts of the city, and the first step in realizing some of the proposals.
The event was covered in the [Helsingborgs Dagbladet].
The exhibition will remain open to the public in Landskrona City Hall for 3 weeks.
Landskrona Studio
The advanced course ASB 121 Urban Landscape ended May 27, 2008 with an exhibition at the municipal office in Landskrona. The students presented their projects for the invited politicians, civil servants and the press. The event was featured in the local newspaper, "Landskrona Posten".
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