Creative Management in the young landscape of Alnarp´s Landscape Laboratory

Abstract

During the years 2003 to 2005 the project “Creative Management in the young landscape of Alnarp´s Landscape Laboratory” was carried through by the young landscape architects Dana Hladikova and Jan Sestak with Roland Gustavsson as project leader. Using a design approach emphasizing creative management and place based knowledge certain spaces in the Landscape Laboratory were transformed into places giving character and experiential values to a young landscape otherwise still waiting to mature. Reversing the order of design, starting outside with discussions and practical actions and then conceptualizing the process and the result in graphics and text afterwards, showcases an alternative approach to the dominating indoor design model that shows much promise for the future. The project and its physical results also demonstrates the benefits letting mangers take part in and even being responsible for the ongoing creative and architectural development of a landscape and its structures. Over a decade later, after hundreds of guided visits, numerous presentations, workshops, publications and continued management actions, the value of the project is in many ways undisputable. However the actual process and detailed actions of the project have not earlier been published in detail. This report compiles the working material from the Project “Creative Management in the young landscape of Alnarp´s Landscape Laboratory”. As such the material has only been moderately edited concerning spelling and other formalities. In its present form it presents not only an in-depth look on the creative management process but also an important historical and pedagogical documentation of the Landscape Lab of Alnarp. 

Keywords

landscape laboratory; hazels; orchards; design; tunnels; parads

Published in

Landskapsarkitektur, trädgård, växtproduktionsvetenskap: rapportserie
2017, number: 2017:16
ISBN: 978-91-576-8947-4
Publisher: Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Crop Production Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Associated SLU-program

Built environment
Agricultural landscape

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/92288