Professorship Landscape Architecture I Design

About the role

The professorship is dedicated to the teaching and development of design in landscape architecture. This includes design as well as spatial, functional and procedural dimensions.

Responsibilities

• Represent the subject ‘Landscape Architecture | Design’ comprehensively in research and teaching in the sense of sustainable and future-oriented landscape architecture and open space development.
• Have excellent, conceptually strong achievements in the design of public open spaces and an independent, built landscape architectural work with high visibility in the professional discourse.
• Develop innovative design approaches and reflect on design practices and current trends in landscape architecture.
• Impart methods, content and tools of design, as well as the diverse aspects of landscape architecture in the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes.
• Collaborate with other departments in research and teaching, particularly the departments of Open Space Planning and Landscape Architecture | Technology, for participation in the Master’s specialisation in Urban Planning.

Requirements

• A degree in landscape architecture or a comparable course of study with a demonstrable focus on landscape architecture.
• Outstanding achievements in design, demonstrated by an independent, built landscape architecture project of high design quality.
• Outstanding research or practice-oriented contributions to the academic discourse on landscape architecture, which have led to significant advances in design research, as evidenced by relevant academic publications.
• Innovative design approaches and critical reflection on design methods, particularly regarding aspects of sustainability and the resulting aesthetics.
• Excellent connectivity, e.g. demonstrated through international collaborations in academia and practice.
• Relevant academic teaching experience and expertise in university pedagogy.
• Willingness to teach courses in both German and English.

Qualifications

• International practical experience.
• Experience in design incorporating aspects of biodiversity, circularity or climate adaptation.
• Experience in securing and implementing externally funded projects.

Skills

• Excellent connectivity, evidenced through international collaborations in academia and practice.
• Relevant academic teaching experience and expertise in university pedagogy.
• Willingness to teach courses in both German and English.

Benefits

• The opportunity to work within an interdisciplinary department with a collegial environment that is keen to explore an integrated approach to the societal challenges facing architecture, urban and landscape planning.
• The professorship has the opportunity to play an active role in the newly established Kassel Institute for Sustainability.

Pay

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Schedule

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