Personal profile

Short presentation

Anne Tietjen is Architect MAA, PhD, and Professor in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Transformation. Since 2022 she is Head of Studies for the MSc Landscape Architecture.

Anne's work bridges theory and practice at the intersection of landscape architecture, urban design, and planning. She works with the transformation of existing built environments and landscapes, focusing on the politics and agency of design for sustainable urban and rural development and quality of life for more than humans. Her work is situated within the field of relational spatial design and planning theory, specifically based on actor-network theory. She has carried out extensive research on strategic design and planning, urban/rural public space, heritage in planning, and design-based research methods. 

She has a long-standing interest in collaborative transdisciplinary research and possibilities for democratizing knowledge production with design-based tools, specifically architecture exhibitions, in the projects Public Space in European Social Housing and Exploring Public Space in Rural Transformation. She also teaches the course Transformation Studio in the MSc Landscape Architecture as an education-based design research lab in collaboration with Danish practice partners (municipalities).

She is an established capacity in design-based research, drawing on 12 years of international experience in architecture and urban design practice. In addition to her academic work, she occasionally works as a consultant for strategic design and planning projects in cooperation with Danish architecture  firms.

 

Current research

Current and recent national and international research projects include:

Teaching

I teach in the international Landscape Architecture programme.

  • 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.

 

CV

Since 2023 Full Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2016-2023 Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2012-2016 Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2009-2012 Project Manager, Dansk Bygningsarv A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

2005-2009 PhD student, Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark

2004-2005 Architect, Hvidt & Mølgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003-2005 External Lecturer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2002-2003 Architect, MAMdesign, Copenhagen, Denmark

2001-2002 Architect, Juul Frost Arkitekter, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999-2001 Architect, Dissing + Weitling Arkitektfirma a/s, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999 Architect, Thora a/s, Copenhagen, Denmark

1998 Architect, Philip Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1997 Architect, Machleidt + Partner, Büro für Städtebau, Berlin, Germany

External positions

External examiner for the higher artistic education programs in Denmark

1 Oct 201830 Sep 2022

External examiner engineering degrees in design and architecture, Denmark

1 Apr 201831 Mar 2022

Bilbliometric Research Indicator, Chair of expert group architecture, design, product development and urban planning.

15 Feb 201731 Dec 2021

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • urban design
  • urban planning
  • urban transformation
  • urbanism
  • Actor-Network Theory
  • public space
  • Heritage
  • strategic planning
  • Research through design
  • Design research
  • Design method
  • design theory
  • Rural planning
  • Rural Transformation
  • Rural design
  • Spatial design
  • Urbanism
  • Actor-Network-Theory (ANT)
  • Spatial planning
  • New materialism

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