Lecture Programme Design with Nature

• Lecture period is 10.10.-19.12.2018
• Seminar session time is always Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CET
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10.10.2018 Design with Nature – Seminar Introduction

Dr. Ellen Fetzer, Nürtingen-Geislingen University, DE, and Alexandru Mexi, University of Bucharest, RO

• Seminar motivation, goals and scope
• Seminar structure and activities
• Assignment and recognition possibilities

Dr. Ellen Fetzer (DE) initiates and coordinates elearning activities at Nürtingen-Geislingen University in cooperation with international partners. She also works for the International Master Programme in Landscape Architecture (IMLA). Ellen is current president of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools and coordinates ECLAS activities with the LE:NOTRE Institute.

Alexandru Mexi (RO) is a Romanian landscape architect and PhD student at the University of Bucharest. He is studying the history of European and Romanian public parks and he is working in the field of garden heritage protection, restoration and conservation. In his home country he is coordinating a cultural project dedicated to green heritage and he is engaged in different cultural and educational programs. Alex is a member of the ECLAS Executive Committee.

17.10.2018 The emergence of design with gardens: Persia

Prof. Dr. Karl Ludwig, emeritus from Nürtingen-Geislingen University, landscape architect and expert on garden history and landscape heritage.

24.10.2018 Found in Translation: The Meaning of Japanese Gardens Here and Now

Dr Kristin Faurest, Director, International Japanese Garden Training Center, Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, Oregon, US. Kristin Faurest completed her landscape architecture studies at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. She also worked and studied at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, where she studied at the School of Horticulture and helped maintain the garden’s Japanese landscape. With extensive international teaching and research experience focusing on the connection between culture and landscape, Faurest has published widely in journals such as Topos: The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and is the author, co-author or editor of several books, including most recently Community-Built: Art, Construction, Preservation and Place (Routledge, 2017). Dr. Faurest joined the Portland Japanese Garden in 2016

31.10.2018 An idea arrives in Europe: The gardens of the Alhambra

Speaker: Maria M Carrion, University of Atlanta, US

07.11.2018 Landscape and Heritage conservation in India

Nupur Prothi Khanna, ICOMOS-IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes. Nupur Prothi Khanna has two decades of experience as a Landscape Architect. With graduate and post-graduate degrees in Physical Planning and Landscape Architecture from SPA Delhi and Heritage Conservation from University of York (UK), her work through Beyond Built Pvt Ltd, a research-based design practice in Delhi, seeks to bridge these diverse interests. She was Co-Chair for the symposium on Heritage and Democracy as part of the ICOMOS General Assembly in Delhi, December 2017. She is involved in professional organisations, ICOMOS ISC Cultural landscapes, ISoCARP as Co-Chair on Climate change and Social Networks for their 2018 Congress in Bodo; IFLA as Advisory Circle member for their Landscape Congress in Singapore and IUCN as newly inducted member. Currently, she is based out of Stockholm.

14.11.2018 Interim presentation

• Seminar participants present local cases of design with nature and challenges regardin their conservation
• moderated by Ellen and Alex

21.11.2018 From Gardens to Parks: The Beginnings of Public Parks in the 18th and 19th century

• Good practice: Sad Janka Kráľa, Bratislava - The first public park in Central Europe - Good practice of preserving a living monument in the heart of the capital city

Challenging case: The challenge of reconstructing vs. redesigning historical gardens and parks

• Speaker: Dr. Attila Tóth, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, SK

28.11.2018 The 19th Century: Lisbon Public Parks

Speaker: Ana Rodrigues

05.12.2018 Public parks in the 20th Century

Speaker: to be confirmed

12.12.2018 Modernist heritage

Speaker: to be confirmed

19.12.2018 Final presentation

• Final presentation of seminar participants: risk analysis of their local heritage cases and conservation ideas
• Moderated by Ellen, Alex and others
• Outcomes can be documented on our seminar wiki