Ulrika K. Stigsdotter

Phone+4535331786, +4540110801
Emailuksign.kudk
Websitehttps://ign.ku.dk/forskning/landskabsarkitektur-planlaegning/

Rolighedsvej 23
1958 Frederiksberg C
Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C

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Short presentation

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).

CV

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
2006-2013	Associate 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.
2000-2005	Assistant Professor, SLU Alnarp (part time).
1999-2005	PhD student, SLU Alnarp (part time).


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

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

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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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