Transpieces & entanglement - The beautiful mess of inhabiting borders

Open, digital seminar with Caroline Dahl

The presenter of this seminar is Caroline Dahl (SLU Alnarp). The discipline of landscape ecology examines the spatial distribution of landscape elements and their ecological functions and interdependencies. Edges of those landscape elements have been found to host the most species in what is described as ecotones. In the discipline of sociology, Richard Sennett makes a similar claim, stating that borders are where different groups interact. Intersecting those two discourses and applying them to an urban condition, Dahl opens up for a radical re-imagination and restructuring of how cities and urban landscapes for all life forms are designed and understood.

The seminar will report on an ongoing studio course at an advanced level at SLU Alnarp in which the students are invited to reflect upon how to inhabit the Öresund seascape and its coastal landscape.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group and questions from participants.

Caroline Dahl

Caroline Dahl is a senior lecturer and design researcher in landscape architecture at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management at SLU Alnarp. Trained as an urban planner and architect and with a doctorate in landscape architecture, it is the overlaps and gaps – the disciplinary borderlands, if we may call them so – that interest her. Her research interest deals with transforming urban landscapes and how transformation can be orchestrated through increased awareness of site, temporalities, stakeholder constellations and iterative processes.

About the series

The seminar series Border Allies, Boundary Alliances is arranged by the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, funded by CEMES.