Landscape Laboratories 

A blank spot in practice: urban woods. Alnarp’s Landscape Laboratory  in Sweden has  

inspired the creation of experimental sites in Europe. 

/ Introduction – Free the woods from anesthesia! / Lisa Diedrich and Catherine Szanto

/ The Pioneer – A campus lab / Roland Gustavsson

/ Creative Management – An interview with Allan Gunnarsson and Erik Svensson / Christel Lindgren

/ Pocket woods for 21st century urban landscapes / Anders Busse Nielsen

/ On experimentation across science, design and society / Stephan Darlan Boris

/ Landscape Laboratories for the World! / Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch

Projects: Alnarp’s Landscape Laboratory / Snogeholm / Vidernas Park / Sletten / Eskelund

/ Liege / Zurich / Köln / Langeaux / Paris / Bordeaux

This digital booklet is published to accompany a series of three lectures on ‘A Dutch Approach’, organized by H+N+S Landscape Architects to mark their 25th anniversary.

This essay aims to draw attention to the ideology characteristic of H+N+S and to position it as a specific approach to landscape and landscape architecture. The achievements of H+N+S are relatively unknown outside the Netherlands. The result may be a splendid landscape but, more often, the product is groundbreaking research, an exploration, or a vision.