Creative Management in the young landscape of Alnarp´s Landscape Laboratory

During the years 2003 to 2005 the project “Creative Management in the younglandscape of Alnarp´s Landscape Laboratory” was carried through by the younglandscape architects Dana Hladikova and Jan Sestak with Roland Gustavsson asproject leader. Using a design approach emphasizing creative management andplace based knowledge certain spaces in the Landscape Laboratory weretransformed into places giving character and experiential values to a younglandscape otherwise still waiting to mature. Reversing the order of design, startingoutside with discussions and practical actions and then conceptualizing the processand the result in graphics and text afterwards, showcases an alternative approach tothe dominating indoor design model that shows much promise for the future. Theproject and its physical results also demonstrates the benefits letting mangers takepart in and even being responsible for the ongoing creative and architecturaldevelopment of a landscape and its structures.Over a decade later, after hundreds of guided visits, numerous presentations,workshops, publications and continued management actions, the value of theproject is in many ways undisputable. However the actual process and detailedactions of the project have not earlier been published in detail. This report compilesthe working material from the Project “Creative Management in the younglandscape of Alnarp´s Landscape Laboratory”. As such the material has only beenmoderately edited concerning spelling and other formalities. In its present form itpresents not only an in-depth look on the creative management process but also animportant historical and pedagogical documentation of the Landscape Lab ofAlnarp. <br />