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The subject of this project focuses on how Landscape Architects by their profession can explore and directly make a difference in the cityscape. This paper documents the process of art - based research practice. The purpose of installing temporary activities is to encourage people in the city to discover, participate and invite people to be more playful in the city. My experience of interaction in public spaces comes primarily from the education within landscape architecture, from site-specific art installations I have performed in different cities and from observations of landscape architecture, street art and urban life in the cities of Vienna, Berlin and Linköping. It is fascinating and inspiring to see how the urban space can invite and allow visitors to participate and therefore feel invited to the open space. As a landscape architect I wish to create urban spaces that are useful and inspiring for their visitors. The projects main question: How can you make temporary landscapes that encourage outdoorinspired activities at selected locations in the city? is answered by practice based research, an approach in which theoretical research are developed through practical experiments in the designing- and implementation process. In the process the theoretical foundation develops into build site-specific landscapes. The project has been put together by different kinds of research, the outdoor-inspired activities has been based and summarized on theoretical research. The locations for temporary landscape have been found through Photowalks, a method used for documenting spaces of uncertainty in the city. The designing process has been based on theory and inspiration, and developed into six designing proposals through full-scale drawings and photo collages. In the implementation processes the proposals transformed into an exhibition of temporary landscape at six locations in Linköping, from the 3rd until the 15th of April 2012. Temporary landscape is a momentary happening in the existing landscape. The method is used to create interesting meeting points that engage people to discover the site. The temporary contribution allows people to see the city in a new way and makes them aware of their surroundings. It is a concept that recognizes the human need for experiences and it creates opportunities to develop in the daily used environments. There are a lot of unused locations in the cities, usually called margins. These places are often perceived as a free zone, with possibilities to participate and to interact more spontaneously. To enable people to be activated and inspired by the cityscape, the margins and the open spaces has to be inviting, interesting and allow participation. Connections to outdoor delectation are used through the project to transform the curiosity and participation that can be experienced in the nature to experiences in the city. The theme Outdoor delectation in the city summarizes the theoretical approach, where the importances of discovering, participation and to move more freely in the city are being motivated. To explore the city is important for people?s personal development, it is also an important process in which people develop their understanding for the surroundings. The possibilities people have to discover the urban surroundings effects how well people thrive and are connected to their environment. Our movement is a way to discover and learn about the city, outdoor daily physical exercise does also have important effects on our health. Our movement is influences by the surroundings, the cityscape are often static and repetitious. The city is dominated by accessible communication routes that don?t inspire us to move freely or spontaneously. To become involved in the cityscape the margins need to be inviting, changeable and suggest encouraging activities. The practice based research evolved into an exhibition, where temporary landscapes were created at six locations in the city centre of Linköping. The first site was on an open lawn in Järnvägsparken, where a Killer ball field was created by drawing white lines on the lawn. Soft balls where placed in a basket near the field. The second site was on a pedestrian and bicycle path along the road Repslagaregatan. There a pattern was fixed to the pavement and formed a route in which you could jump between different boxes on the ground in a Motion Street. The third site was on the neglected square Magasintorget, smaller plant of spruce where planted in a wooden frame, a plank in the middle created a walk between the trees. On one edge a blackboard was places that could be drawn on with white calk, the installation was called Planned. The fourth site was places on the traditional square Hospitaltorget, here three chairs out of A4 paper cartons where placed as a lounge and formed the installation called Can you handle it. The fifth site was in the crossing between Drottninggatan and Djurgårdsgatan. Six stone blocks and a pile of gravel where placed on opposite corners, the object symbolized the process in which natural materials are deformed and transported into the city, Block to gravel. The sixth site was in the park area between the Cathedral and the City Library on Benzeliusplatsen, here two bookshelves where placed next to the benches, here people could exchange and find books in the open-air library, Exchange books. The exhibition of temporary landscape achieved to encourage people to discover, participate and become activated on the locations. Many people became curious and stopped to explore the sites, people played sports in the park, jumped along the pattern at the Motion Street, left notes on the blackboard and took a small walk through the trees at the installation Planned, people rested on the chairs at Hospitaltorget, discovered the blocks and tried to go up on the gravelled pile in the traffic junction at Drottninggatan ? Djurgårdsgatan, many people exchanged or curiously searched for books in the bookshelves at Benzeliusplatsen. The exhibition Outdoor delectation in the city was a way to encouraged people to discover, participate and move more freely in the city margins. The process of creating temporary landscapes contains the entire process from idée to installed site-specific objects. The project has also shown that the method can be used to see how landscape architects and planners are affecting how people discover and feel participation in their city Important guidelines to creating and to implement temporary landscape in public spaces are to find a context to work from, to set limitations and create a framework to start from. In the project I contacted and collaborated with the municipality and its contractors, in the beginning I also defined and set clear goals for the project which could be achieved during the project time and the given permissions. Experience of practice based researched through this project has shown: the importance to first experience and discovering the locations where the temporary landscape will be created, the need to constantly evaluate the design proposals, to seek expert advice for material and construction matters. The most essential thing within the research is to dare and explore new ways, to constantly evolve the proposals, to effectively make new decisions and see challenges as a thriving force that shapes the ideas into something better for this particular situation, set milestones so the project constantly carries on.

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