208.ENG Urbanism & Landscape at KTH school of Architecture, MASSA Project - Ania Öst, Hanna Erixon Aalto & Ulrika Stenkula

<p>Ania Öst (Architect, Lecturer and Researcher at&nbsp;KTH - School of Architecture, partner at Gaia Arkitektur), Hanna Erixon Aalto (Architect, PhD, Lecturer, KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm) and Ulrika Stenkula (Architect, Gaia Arkitektur, Sweden).</p><p>We are talking about the aim of the master Urbanism and Landscape Studio at KTH, School of Architecture in Stockholm, Sweden. Why and how important is it to bring back nature to the city.</p><br><p>Read more about the projects <a href="https://issuu.com/kth-arkitekturskolan/docs/urbanism_and_landscape_booklet_2021_" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here </a>(PDF).</p><br><p>This episode is in collaboration with the&nbsp;master&nbsp;studio&nbsp;Urbanism&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Landscape&nbsp;at KTH school of architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.</p><br><p>More about </p><p><strong>URBANISM &amp; LANDSCAPE STUDIO: </strong></p><p>The Urbanism and Landscape Studio focus on cities, landscapes and territories in the broader context of the environmental crisis. How can we imagine a sustainable and resilient city of the twenty-first century? What can the role of designers be in addressing Agenda 2030, including urgent and interconnected problems such as rapid urbanization, biodiversity loss, social inequity and severe global climate changes affecting our cities? Drawing on the nexus of ideas within landscape/ecological urbanism, resilience theory, and the environmental humanities, the studio challenges the modernist idea of the city as a fixed, delimited territory contrasting the ‘natural’ world around us. Instead, we explore landscape and ecology as organizers of urban space; as providers of catalytic urban strategies that can embrace complexity, multi-functionality and change over time.&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>More about the focus of this studio during spring 2021.</strong></p><p>MASSES AND WATER In the spring of 2021, the studio is part of an ongoing research project called MASSA. It is financed by a four-year state grant trough Formas and is a col