PhD Courses in Denmark

Because of the Green Transition and the Grønne Trepart Danmark faces a landscape transformation process not seen since the Forest and Agricultural reforms in the late 17th century. Like the transformation process then, the current process is argued through economical, technological, ecological and philosophical ideas and conceptualizations. Technological innovations and new economical thinking were then a co-designing agent in forming the current Danish landscapes which now are going to be transformed due to agendas on climate change, biodiversity, Co2 emissions, geopolitical considerations etc. 

Many of these ideas and concepts then and today thus originated in other disciplines than for example landscape architecture but have nevertheless impacted both landscape architecture and the landscapes themselves. Through a specific lens – landscape architecture research – a more general question on how to understand, transfer and implement ideas and concepts coming from other disciplines and spheres into for example architecture?

How do concepts migrate, how are they transformed, mediated, translated and implemented?

The course is organized as a colloquium and depends on the active participation of the participants, which includes a written essay for this course and an oral and graphical introduction (slide presentation) of one of the course texts and its impact on own research, along with discussions and feed back in plenum.

Participants must produce a pre-course written introduction (500 words) of their PhD-thesis topic and themselves in applying for the course.

The course is divided into two parts: a first part with presentations of the course, its thematic, and the participants own research thematic, and a second part presenting the course assignments and feed-back sessions (peer-to-peer), why there will be a slip of approx. 2-3 weeks in-between the two parts to prepare the individual course assignments.

Dates
17-18 Nov + 9-10 Dec, 2026.

ECTS
5

Application deadline
19 October 2026