Minutes October 25 2011

Round of Introductions

The seminar was attended by 35 participants. Some attendees represented groups of students such as the Universities in Ankara, Belgrade, Buenos Aires, Damman and Kassel. For these groups: please make sure that you pass the e-mail addresses of all participants to the seminar coordinator. In addition, there are some individual participants and the students from the IMLA Master programme who are currently doing internships.

Seminar Objectives

Images from different landscapes and open spaces were shown in order to make sure that this seminar will deal with people's everyday environment on which they are very much dependant. The seminar will provide theoretical knowledge in the field of landscape assessment. Students are asked to apply different methods in practice using the example case of an everyday landscape they find in their daily environment.

Towards and International Landscape Convention

Kathryn Moore, as IFLA representative, presented the activities related to the establishment of an International Landscape Convention which was hoped to be supported by UNESCO. In a first attempt, the proposal was not brought forward in UNESCO. However, IFLA continues promoting the idea.

Details can be found on this leaflet:

• IFLA Leaflet Towards an International Landscape Convention

All participants are invited to sign up for the convention on Facebook. This page also contains many links to different landscape charters as they are currently developing all across the world.

• The Internatioal Landscape Convention on Facebook

The presentation was followed by a good discussion. Unfortunately, we did not have time to come back to all questions in detail.

Seminar Process and Assignments

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  Assignment 1: Sketching

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  Assignment 2: Layers

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  Assignment 3: Behaviour Patterns

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  Assignment 4: Communication Concepts

Task for the Next Session

1. Please register on this wiki:

• Registration link

Only when you are registered you are allowed to edit this wiki. The wiki will be used all through the seminar for documenting your work. This wiki will remain open for registration only for a few days. Please make sure that you have registered before November 10th.

2. Please add your case study area to this list

• Case Study List Everyday Landscapes

About Editing the WIKI

Editing a WIKI is quite simple. For giving you a start, please have a look at the help page.

Next Session

We will meet again on Tuesday, 1st of November 2011. An introductory lecture on landscape assessment will be given by Kati Susi-Wolf from Helsinki Technical University, Finland.

Please make sure that you have added your area to the case study list unil then.