Course Schedule Seminar Concepts of Landscape 2010
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Working Phase: Assignment I
Time frame: until October 12
Student activities:
- Study individual texts
- Transform the main contents into a concept map
- You may use open source tools such as VUE or Cmap
- Upload and publish your concept map according to the thematic field among the [http:// Resources] with your full name, title and explanatory text
- Tutor feedback
- Process:
Block I: Theories and Concepts of Landscape
October 12, 2010 / 6.30 pm CET / Virtual Team Room
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General questions:
- What is a landscape, how did the term and interpretation develop over time?
- What forces shape a landscape?
- Which ideals guide our perception and evaluation of landscapes?
Mutual activities:
- Seminar background: LE:NOTRE
- Seminar contents, structure + schedule
- Expectations + learning objectives
- Introduction of all participating teams: Each group brings pictures (3 max.) from the region the university is in; the other participants “read the pictures” before these get explained by the group which brought them – what can we see, what do we think to see;
- Assignment 1: group introduces ‘their’ landscape along the three pictures they chose; no clear guidance of explanation – let students decide what is important to mention;
- After all five/six ‘introductions’ joint discussion about defining, crucial elements, aspects of a ‘landscape’; What makes it distinct from other landscapes? What can we understand from the pictures / what not, and how can we learn about these other aspects (approaches, tools, methods)?
- Introduction to the Seminar WIKI
- Short explanation of Transect exercise based on the reading by Corner/McLean (2006) “Taking measures across the American Landscape” and further literature;
- Process:
Working Phase: Assignment II
Time frame: until October 26, 2010
Student activities:
- Process:
October 19, 2010 / 6.30 pm CET / Virtual Team Room
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General questions:
- Landscape term / theory /concepts
Mutual activities:
- Lecture by Galen Newman | Clemson University, North Carolina / USA:
- Lecture by Dóra Drexler | Corvinus University, Budapest / Hungary:
Block II: Reading the Local Landscape
October 26, 2010 / 6.30 pm CET / Virtual Team Room
Mutual activities:
- transect of the landscape of the university town from the town/city centre to the edge (interpretation of the current state, what ‘shaped’ it? (natural forces, historic development, regulations, overall societal trends, economy …)
- 2 Student presentations with a 10‐15 minutes video added by a ppp or other form of presentation including section, maps, text; file summarizing the analysis – available for all participants)
- Assignment 2: walk of the transect and video documentation, additional analysis of this landscape with maps, literature, …,
interpretation; analysis done by each group individually along a joint assignment; cut of a 10‐15 minutes video and preparation of presentation; Clemson students could go first as their semester starts earlier and they would have time to start their analysis earlier;
- Process:
Working Phase: Assignment III:
Time frame: until November 23, 2010
Student activities:
Seminar Break
November 02, 2010 No seminar session!!!
November 09, 2010 / 6.30 pm CET / Virtual Team Room
Mutual activities:
- transect
- 2 Student presentations
November 16, 2010 / 6.30 pm CET / Virtual Team Room
Mutual activities:
- transect
- 1 Student presentation
- After last presentation: brainstorming what recent issues these different landscapes illustrate / stand for;
Block III: Future Landscapes
November 16, 2010 /6.30 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room
General questions:
- What is a desirable landscape for the future?
- How does it look like?
- How can we get there?
- What is the role of the landscape architecture profession?
Mutual activities:
- Lecture by | University, / : OR 1 Student presentation
- Discussion of recent and upcoming approaches, problems, phenomena, policies, goals;
November 23, 2010 / 6.30 p.m. CET / Virtual Team Room
Mutual activities:
- Lecture by | University, / :
- Short student presentation (statements) or discussion; student presentation should include an explicit description of approaches / methods / tools; illustration along cases / examples
- Assignment 3: mix of students – two universities jointly prepare a comparison of recent approaches along one case study from
each of the countries they represent; 5‐10 minutes statement; preparation with selected readings – selection by individual teachers for their group;
- Process: