Space, place and landscape

The course focuses on the spatial dimension of the cultural environment. By exploring the historical, ecological and cultural processes that together shape and transform places and landscapes the course provides training in examining the same environment from multiple perspectives, supported by the various scholarly approaches that converge in the field of conservation (in Swedish: kulturvård). With a main focus on environments beyond the most densely populated urban centres, the course explores relationships between nature and culture, urban and rural, the material and the immaterial, and how such boundaries can be understood and shifted. During the course you learn how interdisciplinary perspectives can be applied to interpret, care for and protect the values of places and landscapes. Field studies are a central part of the course, and assignments are carried out both individually and in groups.