Anne Tietjen

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I am associate professor in landscape architecture and urban design and active in the research groups Landscape Architecture and Urbanism and Spatial Change and Planning. I work with the transformation and development of cities and landscapes through spatial design. What are the politics and agency of design? My research contributes to a growing body of relational urban design and planning theory, specifically based on new materialism and actor-network theory. Focus areas are strategic planning, urban/rural public space, heritage in planning, and research-through-design. My work bridges theory and practice at the intersection of landscape architecture, urban design and planning. I am a capacity in design-based research in this field drawing on 12 years’ international experience of architecture practice.

I was trained as an architect at TU Berlin and ENSA Lyon and hold a PhD from the Aarhus School of Architecture (2009) which was published as a book Towards an Urbanism of Entanglement: Site Explorations in Polarised Danish Urban Landscapes (2011).

 

Current research

Current national and international research projects include:

• Livskvalitet i yderområder og landdistrikter (Quality of life in peripheral rural areas). (Realdania, 2018-2022). Leader of subproject on quality of life and innovation in the built environment
• Public Space in European Social Housing (PUSH). (Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), 2019-2021). Leader of work package on Exhibition as tool (analogue and online).
• Exploring Public Space in Rural Transformation. (NOS-HS, 2019-2020). Nordic research network and series of workshops for a new research agenda in spatial design and planning.
• Reconfiguring Welfare Landscapes (WELLAND). (Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2016-2020) Sub-project leader Materialising welfare landscapes of social housing
• DEMOSSPACE – democratic dimensions of urban public space. (The Research Council of Norway, 2016-2020). International research partner to the project at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Teaching

I teach in the international Landscape Architecture programme.

• Co-responsible for the master course Theories of Urban Design (7,5 ECTS, since 2010)
• Responsible for the master course Transformation Studio (15 ECTS, since 2014, not in 2020 due to sabbatical). The Transformation Studio works as a laboratory for strategic planning through landscape projects in shrinking rural areas. Bridging design research, education and practice we collaborate each year with a Danish municipality and work on site in dialogue with local planners, politicians, experts, project makers and communities. The resulting strategic landscape projects are collected in a course magazine to serve as inspiration for future development to our cooperation partners.

 

Selected publications

1. Published

   Planning strategically in light of rural decline: Experiences from Denmark

   Tietjen, Anne & Jørgensen, Gertrud, 2019, The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. Scott, M., Gallent, N. & Gkartzios, M. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, p. 420-430 11 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   Public space in an age of austerity

   Carmona, M., Hanssen, G. S., Lamm, Bettina, Nylund, K., Saglie, I. & Tietjen, Anne, 2019, In : Urban Design International. 24, 4, p. 241-259 19 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   Planning with Heritage: A Critical Debate Across Landscape Architecture Practice and Heritage Theory

   Riesto, Svava & Tietjen, Anne, 2018, Routledge Companion to Landscape Architecture. Braae, E. & Steiner, H. (eds.). 1 ed. Routledge, p. 246 14 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   Transformation Studio 2019: Mors Landscape Futures

   Tietjen, Anne, 8 Jan 2020, 66 p.

   Research output: Other contribution › Education

5. Published

   Found in translation: Working with actor-network theory in design education

   Tietjen, Anne, 2018, In : Nordic Journal of Architectural Research. 1, p. 11-33 24 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   Doing critique of what design does at Superkilen

   Tietjen, Anne, Riesto, Svava & Haddad, R., 2017, In : CRIOS - Critica degli ordinamenti spaziali. 4, 13, p. 45-60 16 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

7. Published

   There is more to it than meets the eye: Strategic design in the context of rural decline

   Tietjen, Anne & Jørgensen, Gertrud, 2018, In : Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning. 2, 1, p. 9-31 23 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

8. Published

   Translating a wicked problem: A strategic planning approach to rural shrinkage in Denmark

   Tietjen, Anne & Jørgensen, Gertrud, 2016, In : Landscape and Urban Planning. 154, p. 29–43 15 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review