Opening Conference: "What if Nature Comes First?"Landscape architect Kathrine O. Strøm has through her student days and through her whole career worked for nature to come first, for more square metres of nature in every single project. She received the Landscape Architecture Price for Oslo's Street Standard / (Oslo gatenormal), which for the first time included the demand for trees. She uses her competency for a greener society as lecturer at NMBU and as Head of Market in Norconsult. Together with her wife she also manages a farm with destillery.

Kathrine O. Strøm contributes to the Opening Conference 17. september.