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Sandra Costa is a Lecturer and Academic Lead for Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University, where she also serves as Course Director for the MA Landscape Architecture program. She has extensive experience in teaching, research, and professional practice in landscape architecture and design, with teaching experience in both the UK and Portugal across undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Sandra Costa's research focuses on user-based perceptions, experiences, and interactions with the environment. Her work explores the choreographies of landscape experience through which individuals negotiate wellbeing, with emphasis on the in-depth nature of person-place interactions and the role of places in the production of loops of 'positive states of being,' 'enhanced spatial awareness,' and specific identities of self. Her teaching addresses current issues and challenges faced by landscapes and the built environment, with a focus on creating resilient environments, healthy urban landscapes, and long-term visions for areas identified for future housing and employment.
Her research interests span multiple interconnected domains including climate change adaptation strategies, food urbanism, and public health and wellbeing in urban environments. She approaches landscape architecture as a multidisciplinary field that bridges environmental design, social wellbeing, and sustainable development.
Sandra Costa has developed teaching approaches that explore strategies relating to important contemporary matters such as climate change, food urbanism, and public health and wellbeing. Her work emphasizes the creation of resilient environments and healthy urban landscapes through thoughtful design and planning.
