Minutes April 20, 2010

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!

Round of Introductions

After a short explanation of the LE:NOTRE seminar background, the participants were asked to localise themselves on the European and World maps and to introduce themselves by

name,
home town / country,
study level
intention for participating in this online seminar.

Seminar Lecture: Culural Landscapes

The session started with an introductory lecture to (cultural) landscapes by Diedrich Bruns, Kassel University, dealing with

differing (incomplete) definitions of 'landscape',
the perception of landscape by people
the idea of space and place according to 'shaped' land
the perception and conception of values attached

The lecture was continued by Heike Kaiser, Kassel Universiy, illustrating

the origin of 'cultural landscape' as an academic term
the concept, definitin and categories of cultral landscapes according the the World Heritage Committee
the overall academic opinion

The slides are downloadable from the password-protected Moodle webpage from the link below, the password has been given to the seminar participants per e-mail.

Diedrich Bruns / Heike Kaiser: Cultural Landscapes: Preparing for the 2010 ECLAS Conference in Istanbul

These are the participant's contributions:

Seminar contents, expectations and learning objectives

In the following, Heike explained the academic link between seminar and 2010 ECLAS Conference in Istanbul and illustrated the seminar aims and contents. After asking the participants about their expectations, she summed up the learning objectives of the onlien seminar.

Seminar Process

After clearing the seminar contents and objectives, Heike introduced to the seminar structure and process.

Seminar WIKI, Reading exercise and next steps

After this, the Seminar WIKI was introduced. Participants are asked to register here with full name as soon as possible in order to be able to upload and edit their contributions.

The Reading exercise was presented shortly. The participants were asked as a next step to select an appropriate Topos article from the Resources by writing their full name behind the respective article or to suggest any other appropriate article dealing with cultural landscapes in metropolitan regions to Heike. Until next week, all articles with copyright will be linked to the restricted Moodle webpage.

The next step is now to select a reading in the respective section from the Literature and Resources Participation page. The participants will then transform the content of the text into a concept map. The results will be presented and discussed during the third theory session on November 17.

Theory Reading Exercise

A quick feedback round showed that students had basically understood the task and the functionality of the WIKI. Please make your decision soon as we intend to plan the short concept map presentations at the end of next week's meeting.