Ida Højlund Rasmussen is a PhD research fellow at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. Her PhD project VARDØ: Community, resources and lasting values focuses on the coastal community of Vardø in Finnmark and investigates land, landscape management and sustainable ways of managing natural resources in a context where climate and geopolitics affect the future of both the local population and the landscapes. The PhD project is part of the interdisciplinary project Common Resources: strategies for a circular, balanced and shared management of areas under pressure at AHO, which aims to develop sustainable and circular strategies for community development in the Arctic.
Ida holds a bachelor's degree from Aarhus School of Architecture and a master's degree in urban planning and communication studies from Roskilde University. She interested in the relationship between environmental care and social justice, which relates to her previous research on societal structures, identity and agriculture in the West Bank, Palestine, where she has also lived and worked. At AHO, Ida has co-taught a studio course focusing on futures in Lviv, Ukraine, and an elective course on soil and mapping in the Varanger Peninsula.
Units/fields
- Architecture and Landscape
- Emerging Landscapes and Terretories
- Infrastructure and Landscape
- Landscape Urbanism
- Materials, Structure & Ecology