Minutes December 14, 2010

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Seminar schedule

Ellen welcomed everyone to session no. 08, explained the agenda and pointed out the seminar schedule. You can find the overall seminar schedule here: Course schedule.

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Guest lecture

The session started with a guest lecture by Diedrich Bruns, Kassel University: Concepts of Landscape: Historic, semantic, cultural, and other approaches

After that, Ellen and Heike introduced into Cmap Tools, a software which enables people to synchronously work on creating a common concept map. With the help of the students, they re-created the guest lecture in form of a concept map.

Short Student presentations - Assignment 4: Landscape concepts in comparison

The session continued with the following students presenting landscape concepts from their cultural background:

• Balázs Dukai - Hungary

• Carla Tosso - Peru

• Gabriel Seah - Singapore

• Fernando Bujaidar - Mexico

• Wei Wang & Kun Zhang - China

• Hanne de Witte - Netherlands

• Beatriz Dias - Uruguay

• Suranjana Datta - India

Discussion

Afterwards, the group continued enahncing the previous concept map via Cmap Tools.

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Next steps

After the discussion, Heike reminded of the next 2 steps according to Assignment 4: Landscape concepts in comparison.

FOr the second part of the assignment, the students are requested to choose articles and to form international teams.

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Questions / Answers

In general, the students are asked to use their respective discussion page of the current assignment to ask questions. These sections will be checked by the group mentors on a regular basis.

Next online meeting

The next session will be on Dec 21, 2010, mainly consisting of a guest lecture by Fernando Agustoni Martinez, Montevideo / Uruguay.

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