Partner Institutions
Project partner and grant coordinator
Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Ås, Norway
Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning
Contact person: Prof. Deni Ruggeri
Deni Ruggeri is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway. His research focuses on social dimensions of landscape and urban design. He is particularly interested in the influence landscapes have on people’s place identity and attachment, and in developing new tools for engaging communities in the design of places that are conducive to sustainable lifestyles, physical and mental well-being, ecological health, economic viability, identity, delight, and biophilia.
Deni Ruggeri’s education includes a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and graduate degrees in both Landscape Architecture and City Planning from Cornell University. He has practiced landscape architecture in California and Colorado, and has international experience in leading community design and visioning processes. Before joining NMBU, Deni has taught in the USA at the University of Oregon and Cornell University.
Project partners
Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany
Competence Centre for University Didactics
Contact person: Dr Ellen Fetzer
Ellen Fetzer holds a diploma and a doctoral degree in landscape planning from Kassel University, Germany. Since 2001 she has been working at the school for landscape architecture, environmental and urban planning in Nürtigen (Stuttgart area, Germany). She is primarly coordinating an international master degree in landscape architecture (IMLA). The second focus of her work is in the Centre for University Didactics as an e-learning coordinator. Ellen works a lot in the field of computer-supported collaborative learning and facilitates online seminars in international cooperations. She is vice-president of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.
Birgit Kröninger
Birgit Kröniger is Full Professor of design in landscape architecture at the HfWU Nürtingen since 2014. In 2000 she founded the design firm ver.de landschaftsarchitektur located in Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, together with two partners. Working interdisciplinary with a team consisting of up to ten landscape architects and students, Birgit and her partners have taken part succesfully in numerous design competitions for open spaces and designed and realized public urban spaces, courtyards and residential neighbourhoods which won several design awards. Birgit holds a diploma in landscape architecture and a doctoral degree from Technische Universität München. She worked for the landscape architect Peter Latz several years before she founded her own firm.
University of Kassel | Kassel, Germany
School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, Landscape Planning Group, Kassel, Germany
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Diedrich Bruns
Diedrich Bruns is Full Professor and chair of Landscape Planning and Land Use at Kassel University, Germany. He worked in Africa, Asia, North America and on several European projects and has many years of experience in landscape planning practice, teaching and research. Planning methods is his main area of expertise, with a focus on participatory methods, particularly with respect to inclusiveness and early public involvement in landscape decision making. Dr Bruns has published several peer reviewed journal papers, book chapters and books.
Szent István University | Budapest, Hungary
Faculty of Landscape Architecture Contact person: MSc Orsolya Fekete
Kristin Faurest
Kristin Faurest is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary. For 14 years she has managed her own design firm, Artemisia Landscape Design, specializing in gardens for small urban spaces and special needs populations. Her studies include time spent at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, London, and Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa. As of May 2016 she relocates to her native U.S. to become director of a cultural institution at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon.
University of Bologna | Bologna, Italy
Contact person: Prof. Luigi Bartolomei
Luigi Bartolomei, Architectural Engineer, obtained his PhD in Design and Architectural Composition at the University of Bologna with a thesis regarding the Phenomenology of Sacred Space. With this body of reserarch he promoted an analysis of archetypal figures in relation to the contemporary landscape and church architecture. He has worked at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna since 2007 among various roles. Luigi Bartolomei began as a tutor in History of Architecture (AA.2007/08 and 08/09) and later as a contract professor teaching Design and Architectural Composition (AA. 2009/10) and Landscape and Infrastructure Design (AA. 2010/11, 2011/12). The later course resulted in superior work between him and his students and was selected among the best projects regarding infrastructures in Italy by UrbanPromo. He is responsible for the Agreement between the Department of Architecture and FTER-Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna and subsequent courses that have derived from this collaborative partnership. He is a collaborator of the “The Journal of Architecture” [Il Giornale dell’Architettura] since 2008, where he has found a place for his architectural critic to be fully expressed. More specifically, Bartolomei was the editor of an investigative report regarding the city of Bologna (January 2012), and on the architecture of churches in the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (December 2012). In 2009 he won, in collaboration with Prof. Giorgio Praderio, a research project PRIN – Research of Relevant National Interest on the preservation and valorization of the landscape in small towns. Bartolomei is also actively involved with the Commission for Sacred Art and Architecture of Bologna Diocese, since 2008. He is currently responsible for the Project of Census of all Catholic Churches in the territory of Bologna’s Archdiocese (which involves more than 690 buildings). Since 2014 he is the director of “IN_BO, Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura”, (IN_BO, Researches and projects on territory, towns and architecture), an open-access and peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna.
LE:NOTRE Institute
LE:NOTRE Institute an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands.
Contact person: M.Eng. Anna Szilágyi-Nagy