Minutes October 26, 2010

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Round of introductions II

After a general welcome note to the seminar participants, the 3 teachers of the participating universities that could not attend the first session were asked to localise themselves on the world map and to shortly introduce themselves.

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  Simon Bell at Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu

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  Simon Bell at Edinburgh College of Arts, Scotland

Seminar schedule

In the following, Heike showed and explained the scheme of the seminar schedule according to the second session. You can find the overall seminar schedule here: Course schedule.

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Student presentations - Assignment 1: Pictures of our Landscapes

The session continued with an introduction into Assignment 1 by Doris.

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Afterwards, several student groups presented their pictures:

Each presentation was started with a riddle in which the other students were asked to guess where the landscape shown was located and to explain why they thought so.

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Next steps

After these guest lectures, Heike explained the next steps according to Assignment 1 and reminded the participants to register in the Seminar WIKI with full name as soon as possible in order to be able to upload and edit their contributions.

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Questions / Answers

A short questions / answers round proved that the students had basically understood the next steps. In future, the students are kindly asked to use the respective discussion section of the current assignment to ask questions. These sections will be checked by Ellen and Heike on a regular basis.

Next online meeting

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Lecture Recordings

Please follow these links for listening to the seminar recordings:

• Dóra Drexler: European Landscape Perceptions
• Galen Newman: American Landscape Design Theory

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