In this webinar series, arranged by the two university platforms SLU Urban Futures and Future Forests, we delve into urban forests to shed light on various aspects and areas that need more research.
The first webinar of 2022 took place on March 17, when Mattias Qviström presented urban forests from a welfare society perspective.
This webinar discussed the role of urban forests for recreational planning in Sweden in the 1960s until today, focusing especially on the welfare planning in the 1970s. Planning for recreational running is used as a lens to uncover the nexus of ideals of recreation and the forest, and how this materialised in the urban landscape. Finally, the presentation discussed the shift from welfare planning (and a decline of recreational planning) in the 1980s – and ways to reassemble a recreational planning today.
Mattias Qviström is professor in Landscape architecture, especially spatial planning, at SLU in Uppsala. His research focuses on the interplay between planning and the everyday landscape, with historical and ethnographic landscape studies as a base. This presentation is based on one of his ongoing projects, called The Welfare Landscape Reassembled.
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