Teaching Landscape

Karsten Jørgensen is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the School of Landscape Architecture in the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, and holds a Dr.-Scient. degree from NMBU, 1989, in landscape architecture. He was Founding Editor of JoLA – the Journal of Landscape Architecture – 2006–2015. Karsten Jorgensen has published regularly in national and international journals and books. In 2016 he edited the volume Mainstreaming Landscape through the European Landscape Convention (2016) together with Tim Richardson, Kine Thoren and Morten Clemetsen, and in 2018 he edited Defining Landscape Democracy (2018) together with Shelley Egoz and Deni Ruggeri. Nilgul Karadeniz is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Ankara University, Turkey. Her teaching and research interest focusses on participatory landscape planning and recently on landscape biography. She has been an editorial board member of SCI-expanded journals. She was Secretary General (2006–2009) and Vice President (2009–2012) of ECLAS. She is founding member of the LE:NOTRE Institute and she chaired the Institute between 2016 and 2018. Elke Mertens is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Open Space Management at the Hochschule Neubrandenburg – University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She holds a Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University in Berlin (1997) in landscape architecture. Elke Mertens has been active in the LE:NOTRE Thematic Network as well as in ECLAS as member of the executive boards. She served as general secretary of the Institute from 2016-2018 and has been co-chair of the German Hochschulkonferenz Landschaft (HKL) since 2014. Richard Stiles is Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, having studied biology and landscape design at the Universities of Oxford and Newcastle upon Tyne and having previously taught at Manchester University in the UK. His teaching and research interests focus on strategic landscape planning and design in urban areas. He is a past president of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools and was coordinator of the European Union co-funded LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture for 11 years, during which time he was closely involved in preparing recommendations for landscape architecture education.

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