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In this evocative lecture, Kamille Augustinus, Design Lead and Landscape Architect at BOGL, explores the transformative power of aesthetics in landscape architecture. Drawing from over a decade of experience at BOGL, Kamille delves into how thoughtful design can evoke our senses, stir emotions, and create lasting bonds between people and the places they inhabit.

For her presentation, Kamille will share key projects, such as The Passage and the Smithy in Thisted and the Norwegian Tourist Routes in Varanger, as examples of how sensory design can breathe life into urban and natural landscapes. These projects demonstrate how aesthetics, when rooted in respect for the site, can accentuate existing qualities, support reuse of materials and resources, and engage communities on a deeper level. Through these case studies, Kamille will illustrate how beauty becomes a change agent, fostering care, responsibility, and stewardship for ecosystems and public spaces.

Kamille invites the audience to rethink the role of aesthetics in urban design, suggesting that landscape architects wield great responsibility in shaping not just physical spaces, but emotional and environmental connections. In this poetic reflection on the future of landscape architecture, she emphasizes the potential of beauty to inspire positive, lasting change in both urban and natural environments.

About the Speaker

Kamille Augustinus is an emerging voice in Scandinavian landscape architecture, with over a decade of experience at BOGL, where she leads design and concept development. Her work has helped shape some of the studio’s most celebrated projects, including The Passage and the Smithy and the Norwegian Tourist Routes - Varanger. Kamille believes that beauty and aesthetics hold the power to create meaningful connections between people and their environments, fostering care and responsibility for the world around us.

About BOGL

BOGL is an award-winning Scandinavian landscape architecture and planning studio based in Copenhagen and Oslo. Known for their sensitive and site-specific approach, BOGL creates spaces that reflect the inherent stories of a place while addressing contemporary challenges like climate adaptation, biodiversity, and green mobility.

L-x, the international Landscape Lectures 2024, brings the current issues of landscape and material resources to the table. Four different positions will be presented from which landscape architects have developed contemporary responses in urban public spaces and landscapes at different scales. How can existing structures be re-used for or complemented by new landscapes at a time when the economical use of land is a high priority - both in terms of land scarcity as well as ecology and green space justice? How can landscape designs be based on the idea of material recycling? Which approaches for re-interpretation of open spaces and landscapes can be realized to add new meanings and at the same time tackle contemporary natural and social urgencies? In this series of lectures, landscape architects from four renowned firms in Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and France will present projects that provide a variety of answers to these questions.