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Transpieces & entanglement

The beautiful mess of inhabiting borders

Thursday 23 October, 2025
13.00-14.00 CEST (Stockholm, Berlin, Rome)

A photo of braided ropes in green and blue, hanging from the ceiling. Some have been frayed and tangled.
Photo: Caroline Dahl.

The presenter of this seminar is Caroline Dahl (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences). The discipline of landscape ecology studies the spatiality of landscape elements and their ecological functions and interdependencies. Edges of those landscape elements have been found to host the most species in what is described as ecotones. In the discipline of sociology, Richard Sennett makes a similar claim when he states that borders are where different groups interact. Intersecting those two discourses and applying them on an urban condition, Dahl opens up for a radical re-imagination and restructuring of how cities and urban landscapes for all life forms are designed and understood.

The seminar will report on an ongoing studio course on advanced level at SLU Alnarp in which the students are invited to reflect upon how to inhabit the Öresund seascape and its coastal landscape. 

The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, and questions from participants. The seminar is held on Zoom and open to the public.

Caroline Dahl

Caroline Dahl is a senior lecturer and design researcher in landscape architecture at the Department of landscape architecture, planning and management at SLU Alnarp. Trained as an urban planner and architect and with a doctorate in landscape architecture, it is the overlaps and gaps – the disciplinary borderlands if we may call them so – that interests her. 

Her research interest deals with transforming urban landscapes and how transformation can be orchestrated through increased awareness to site, temporalities, stakeholder constellations and iterative processes. 

Link

https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/65672976293?pwd=7HdyxIsioJmiNkK6II9hxSsGkckQ90.1

About the series

The seminar series Border Allies, Boundary Alliances is arranged by the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, funded by CEMES

Technical info 

If you want to ask questions or make comments, please use a headset with a microphone. In addition to the link above, you can participate by calling in, please write to Mia Krokstäde at mia [dot] krokstade [at] cors [dot] lu [dot] se (mia[dot]krokstade[at]cors[dot]lu[dot]se) for information on this.

Contact

Johanna Rivano Eckerdal

Head of Centre for Oresund Region Studies

johanna [dot] rivano_eckerdal [at] kultur [dot] lu [dot] se (johanna[dot]rivano_eckerdal[at]kultur[dot]lu[dot]se)
+46 46 222 30 35