Lecture Programme Design with Nature

Key information

• Lecture period is 10.10.-19.12.2018
• Seminar session time is always Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CET
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• please register to receive regular seminar invitations per email

Design with Nature: Seminar Introduction

• 10.10.2018
• Topics:
  • Seminar motivation, goals and scope
  • Seminar structure and activities
  • Assignment and recognition possibilities

Seminar moderators and coordinators:

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.

The emergence of design with gardens: Persia

• 17.10.2018

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

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

• 24.10.2018

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

An idea arrives in Europe: The gardens of the Alhambra

• 31.10.2018

Maria M Carrion, University of Atlanta, US. Professor María M. Carrión studied Classics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and graduated with a B. A. in Art History and Criticism from the University of Puerto Rico. She completed an M.S. in Art Education and an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville before completing her Ph.D. in Spanish at Yale University. She specializes in the cultural and literary production from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, with a particular focus on dramatic theory and performance, legal writings and practices, and architectural theory and history. Her most recent work has analyzed Andalusi architecture and history of science. She has also published articles and translations on the literature and culture of the Hispanic Caribbean. She has participated in conferences, symposia, colloquia, and workshops in the US, Spain, South America, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia, and her essays have been published in the US, Spain, France, and South America.

Landscape and Heritage conservation in India

• 07.11.2018

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.

Interim presentation

• 14.11.2018
• Seminar participants present local cases of design with nature and challenges regardin their conservation
• moderated by Ellen and Alex

From Gardens to Parks: Sad Janka Kráľa, Bratislava

• 21.11.2018
• The first public park in Central Europe. Preserving a living monument in the heart of the capital city

Dr. Attila Tóth, landscape architect, currently working as Assistant Professor at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, where he completed his PhD on Green Infrastructure in Rural Landscapes in 2015. Attila studied landscape architecture, landscape & spatial planning in Slovakia (SUA) and Austria (BOKU, TU Wien). Main research interests are Green Infrastructure, Urban Agriculture and (Rural) Cultural Landscapes. He has conducted research scholarships in Germany (2018), Austria (2014-2015), New Zealand (2014) and Spain (2013). Main achievements include two ECLAS Awards (Master and Doctoral); the Ernst Mach Doctoral Scholarship; the Green Talents Award for outstanding achievements in sustainability research; and the BMW Award for Sustainability and Innovations.

The 19th Century: Lisbon Public Parks

• 28.11.2018

Ana Duarte Rodrigues is assistant professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She is associated researcher of the Inter-university Research Center for the History of Science and Technology. She is the PI of two funded research projects: Sustainable Beauty for Algarvean Gardens: Old Knowledge to a Better Future (2015-2020) and Horto Aquam Salutarem: Water wise management in gardens in the early modern period (2018-2021). She has published in several scientific journals of the field and is the editor-in-chief of Gardens & Landscapes' journal, published by Sciendo. Among the 17 books on gardens and landscape studies, the following stand out: A Arte dos Jardins na Tratadística e na Literatura (2016) and Horticultura para Todos (2017). She has also been the curator of many exhibitions on art of gardens and participated in several outreaching activities to promote this field of knowledge.

The planting design of Roberto Burle Marx

• 05.12.2018

Speaker: Oscar Bressane, landscape architect, Brazil

Modernist heritage

• 12.12.2018

Speaker: to be confirmed

Design with Nature: Final presentation

• 19.12.2018
• 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