Minutes December 14, 2010
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.
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:
Discussion
Afterwards, the group continued enahncing the previous concept map via Cmap Tools.
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.
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.
Lecture Recording
Please follow these links for listening to the seminar recordings:
- Diedrich Bruns: Concepts of Landscape