Katrina Wiberg (DK) is an Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture and Head of the Centre for Emerging Landscapes.
With a longstanding background in landscape architecture and planning practice, her current research focuses on sea level rise and increasing water volumes in relation to coastal urban and landscape development. Her work explores transformative, nature-based strategies with a long-term perspective across scales. Using research through design as a primary methodology, she combines field studies, visual methods such as mapping, and interdisciplinary and cross-sector research collaborations.
Her PhD project, Waterscapes of Value, received the 2018 Courage Award from the Danish Arts Foundation, and her research was featured in the Danish Pavilion exhibition Coastal Imaginaries at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. Wiberg is an active public communicator, serves on editorial boards, and participates in advisory boards for sea level rise and climate adaptation projects in Denmark and Sweden.
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11:00-12:00 (EN)
ROSETTA S. ELKIN | PORTRAITS OF CLIMATE ADAPTATIONS
Elkin challenges one of the deepest assumptions inherited from modernism: that architecture’s role is to stabilise, conquer, and improve nature. Her work suggests almost the opposite: that landscapes are dynamic, and that architecture must become a participant in ecological processes rather than their master. Drawing across history, fieldwork, citizenship, and geography, Elkin explores a beautiful but politically difficult concept. Who decides who is going to retreat, and at whose expense?
Rosetta S. Elkin (CA/US): Professor and Director of Graduate Landscape Architecture, Pratt Institute
Moderator: Katrina Wiberg (DK): Associate Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture and Head of the Centre for Emerging Landscapes
Aarhus School of Architecture
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