Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability
Ready to engage in the most pressing issues of our time? Combining practices from landscape architecture and studies in global development, planning and ecology, this programme offers a unique approach to global environmental and social challenges.
The programme will address some of the planet’s most urgent issues; climate change, environmental deterioration, natural hazards, regional conflicts, poverty and migration.
The master's program Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability offers unique opportunities of studying and designing contested landscapes and territories. Contested landscape and territories are the object of contention or competition; human beings struggle for it.
The programme contains a sequence of three studio courses that apply a critical question-driven approach. Constant exchange of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives within participants will be encouraged and supported.
Entry requirements
Higher Education Entrance Qualification and a Bachelor degree or an equivalent background in one of the following fields: Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Development Studies, Resource Management, Environmental studies, Engineering and other relevant fields.
Documented proficiency in English in accordance with NMBU regulations.
A 1-page (A4) motivation letter.
Applicants are expected to be able to express themselves visually. Those applicants who have no formal education within visualization are recommended to address their experiences with visualization in their motivation letter.
The study program Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability comprises field trips. Students need to be prepared to cover their own travel expenses. Take contact with the study advisor of the program for more information.
NMBU requires that you have your own personal laptop in connection with learning activities or forms of assessment.
Entry requirements
Higher Education Entrance Qualification and a Bachelor degree or an equivalent background in one of the following fields: Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Development Studies, Resource Management, Environmental studies, Engineering and other relevant fields.
Documented proficiency in English in accordance with NMBU regulations.
A 1-page (A4) motivation letter.
Applicants are expected to be able to express themselves visually. Those applicants who have no formal education within visualization are recommended to address their experiences with visualization in their motivation letter.
The study program Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability comprises field trips. Students need to be prepared to cover their own travel expenses. Take contact with the study advisor of the program for more information.
NMBU requires that you have your own personal laptop in connection with learning activities or forms of assessment.