TELOS Team
Germany
Nürtingen-Geislingen University (NGU)
- university website, project coordination and grant holder
Dr Ellen Fetzer, Project Coordinator: Ellen Fetzer holds a doctoral degree in landscape architecture from Kassel University, Germany. The focus of her work at Nürtingen-Geislingen University is on computer-supported collaborative learning. She further coordinates a Master programme in landscape architecture. Ellen leads the TELOS ERASMUS project.
Belgium
Université Libre de Bruxelles
- university website, Project partner
Turkey
Akdeniz University
- university website, Project partner
Veli Ortacesme, Team Coordinator: Veli Ortacesme has been trained as a landscape architect. His specialty and research interests include landscape planning, protected areas and urban green spaces. After having worked in private sector for two years, he moved to academia where he has been studying for more than 30 years. Currently, he has been teaching and conducting research at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture in Antalya, Turkey. Veli has 35 years of experience in professional practice, education and research and published more than 200 articles, conference papers, research reports, book chapters and books. Motivation for TELOS project : The economic aspect of landscape receives little consideration in research as well as in the programs and actions. The TELOS Project deals with this issue in urban environments. What makes Veli more excited is the fact that the project aims to empower new generation of visionary professionals and decision-makers to address sustainability challenges.
Meryem Atik, Team Member: Meryem Atik is a full-time lecturer and researcher at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University of Akdeniz, Antalya Turkey. Her works focuses on the natural and cultural aspects of the landscape on special topics of cultural landscapes, landscape character analysis, rural landscapes, as well as landscape conservation, native plants, tourism and environment relations, planting design. She is the co-author of 10 English book chapters and recently the editor of Akdeniz University Journal of the Faculty of Architecture. Motivation for TELOS project : Human effort to benefit from nature is motivated by an economic purpose and resulted multiple relationship between culture and landscape. What motivates Meryem to be part of the TELOS project is to understand the intact relation between economy and landscape and to learn how such relation can be transferred in “sustainable” models.
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Ibrahim Yilmaz, Team Member: cv text
Poland
Gdansk Technical University
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Karolina Krosnicka, Team Coordinator: cv text
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Milosz Marciniak, Team Member: cv text
Dorota Jankowska, Team Member: Dorota Wojtowicz-Jankowska is a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology. She is employed at the Department of Environmental Design. She is a promoter of many diplomas on bachelor's and master's levels. In her research work, she is concerned about the problems related to exposition spaces and shaping the city’s landscape. Among her research interests are problems of creating cultural spaces such as museums, galleries, and urban areas used for various forms of presentation. She popularizes scientific experience in cooperation with local governments and public institutions. Motivation for TELOS project : Dorota was motivated to be part of the TELOS project by my curiosity of understanding the landscape through different scientific disciplines and their representatives. Being a part of TELOS team helped to build her knowledge, and consciousness of the complex concept of the landscape.
Magdalena Rembeza, Team Member: Magdalena Rembeza is a tenured Assistant Professor at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland, where she completed her doctorate. She is also a member of the Board of the Revitalization Forum Association. She gained her professional experience in Poland, England, Germany and the United States. She is also a scholarship holder of the Kosciuszko Foundation in 2014. In years 2014-15, she has completed the SPURS Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Her research interests and practice focus on widely understood revitalization of contemporary cities and its public space, also with the use of art and culture.
Katarzyna Zielonko-Jung, Team Member: Katarzyna Zielonko-Jung – an architect, academic lecturer, scientist, professor at Gdańsk University of Technology at the Department of Environmental Design. She has co-created the program for postgraduate studies in Ecological Architecture and Construction and is a lecturer there. She has authored numerous Polish and foreign publications related to ecological architecture issues, in particular their relationship with microclimatic phenomena in the urban environment. She participated in research projects focused on sustainable architecture and improving the quality of city climate. She is a member of Gdańsk Architecture Council, UN Global Poland Climate Council, Mazovian District Chamber of Architects, and Association of Polish Architects. Motivation for TELOS project : Katarzyna is motivated to be part of the TELOS because it is a great opportunity to combine her experience and competencies with the knowledge of specialists from other disciplines. This will allow her to better understand the phenomenon of landscape and participate in discussions about its economic value.
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Gabriela Rembarz, Team Member: cv text
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Piotr Lorens, Team Member: cv text
Italy
La Sapienza University Rome
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Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Team Coordinator: Architect, landscape architect and economist. She holds a Ph.D. Doctor Europaeus in Environmental Design and works as Research Professor at the Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture, “Sapienza” University of Rome. She has published more than 100 scientific products, including 5 books, and has delivered more than 80 oral presentations and keynotes in international conferences and workshops. She is leading several Eu funded projects, and her work continues to engage environmental technological design, landscape ecology, and economic valuation as an evolving integrated framework, linking nature-based solutions’ performance assessment, economic valuation of ecosystem services, climate mitigation, and urban resilience capacity building. Motivation for TELOS project: Through active participation in TELOS, Maria expects to contribute – leveraging her background and experiences in the field of the Landscape Economy – to the dissemination, at an international level, of the relevance of the multiple social and economic benefits provided by nature-based solutions towards climate neutral, resilient, healthy, inclusive, and equitable neighborhoods and cities.
The Netherlands
LE:NOTRE Institute
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Jeroen de Vries, Team Coordinator: Jeroen de Vries, landscape architect, is a researcher at the LE:NOTRE Institute. His research focuses on food governance, the design of foodscapes in metropolitan areas, the productivity of different typologies of UA, and strategies to integrate these in the spatial design of urban and peri-urban areas. Jeroen combines work as a professional practitioner, lecturer, and researcher. He coordinated the theme of foodscapes in the LE:NOTRE Landscape Forums in Rome, Zagreb, Bratislava, and Rimini. Jeroen is active in a number of European educational and research projects that foster the quality in landscape education, research and practice. His mission is to support the academic community and the profession of landscape architecture on a European level. Motivation for TELOS project: The TELOS project offers a unique possibility to contribute to an often neglected aspect of landscape planning. Jeroen is motivated to include various dimensions of economy to develop landscapes with the lens of a common good - the landscape belongs to all.
Juan Jose Galan Vivas, Team Member: Juanjo Galan-Vivas is an Associate Professor in the Urban Planning Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). From 2015 to 2020, he served in a similar position at Aalto University (Finland). His teaching and research focus on landscape planning, landscape design, sustainable development, regional and urban planning, and, on a more general level, on the intersections between social and ecological systems. He coordinated the Sierra Calderona Strategic Plan (2013-2014) and the AELCLIC project for the Adaptation of European Landscapes to Climate Change (2018-2020). From 2017 to 2020 he was the promoter and chair of the Landscape Observatory of Finland. Motivation for TELOS project: The configuration and evolution of the landscape are highly influenced by economic processes framing the interactions between people and the environment. The TELOS project gives an opportunity, in landscape architecture education, to align those processes with the generation of more sustainable, inclusive, resilient, and democratic landscapes.