Ulrika K. Stigsdotter

Ulrika K. Stigsdotter

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6744-2311

  • Rolighedsvej 23

    1958 Frederiksberg C

  • Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C

20072019

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Ulrika K. Stigsdotter is Professor (MSO) of Landscape Architecture with special responsibilities in Health Design. As a landscape architect she received her PhD degree from the Department of Landscape Planning Alnarp, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), where she also completed her graduate studies. Her background is in Landscape Planning and Art History for which she holds two undergraduate degrees from SLU and Lund University.

Ulrika leads a multidisciplinary and international research group called ‘Nature, Health & Design. In this context, she guides innovative research within a wide range of current research trends on interactions between man, human health and the natural environment.

Ulrika’s research has mostly an applied perspective and is aimed at scientists, practitioners and students. As such, her research expertise provides evidence to guide policy makers, city planners, landscape architects, and therapists in translating gained knowledge into practice. Her research and teaching has its foundation in Evidence-Based Health Design (EBHD), which is a process that calls for landscape architects to make practice decisions based on integrating best available research evidence and proven experience with their practice expertise and knowledge of client attributes.

In line with her academic work Ulrika is active as project leader and responsible landscape architect for the Nature, Health & Design Laboratory, which is a collective name for (currently) two research-, development-, and demonstration projects located in the Hørsholm Arboretum: The Health Forest Octovia® (www.octovia.dk) (2014) and The Therapy Forest Garden Nacadia® (www.nacadia.dk) (2011).  She is also one of the pioneering landscape architects behind the Rehab. Garden at Alnarp Campus (SLU) (2000) and the Solberga park in Stockholm (1999) and is involved in the design guidelines behind the healing garden at Dannerhuset in Copenhagen (2012).

 

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Name: Ulrika K. Stigsdotter 
Nationality:Swedish
Age: Born in 1971
APPOINTMENTS 

Current appointment

2013-

Professor with special responsibilities in Health Design, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), Science, University of Copenhagen 

Address: Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark Tel.: +45 40110801 E-mail: [email protected]

Previous appointments 
2006-2013Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copemhagen.
2006  Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Planning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU Alnarp.
2000-2005Assistant Professor, SLU Alnarp (part time).
1999-2005

PhD student, SLU Alnarp (part time).

  
  
EDUCATION  
University degrees 
2005Doctor of Agriculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
1998MSc in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architect, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
1993BA in Art History, Lund University, Sweden.
  
  
  
  

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Health Design
  • Evidence-based design
  • Universal Design
  • Nature and Human Health Relations
  • Therapy Garden Nacadia
  • Health Forest Octovia

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