Minutes Wednesday, 13th of November 2013, Session 3

Session Recording

Seminar theme 1

Planting design in Israel - about nature interpretation and landscape perception

Speaker:

• Heike Kaiser (MSc)|landscape architect at Braudo-Maoz, Tel Aviv

Seminar recording

• Recording 'Planting Design in Israel'
• Presentation slides

Seminar theme 2

Planting design for green space connectivity in support urban ecosystem function and aesthetics

Speaker:

• Dr. MaryCarol Hunter|University of Michigan, USA

Seminar recording

• Recording 'Planting design for green space connectivity'
• Presentation slides
• further information on the nature for cities website

Open questions on the assignment and the work process

• We collected some upcoming questions on the group work during the session.
• I have summarised the answers here: Open Questions 13.11.13.

Next steps steps for the working groups

Assignment 2 - Concept Mapping of Lecture Topics

• each working group will document one lecture in the form of a concept map. The dates for each group can be found in the PDF (working groups)

• The lecture given on 30th of October by Olaf Kühne will be done by groups 1,11 and 21
• The lecture given on 6th of November by Jan van Merrienboer and Jeroen de Vries will be done by groups 2,12 and 22
• You can add the concept map to your working group page
• This is to be completed until 19th of November

• The lecture given on 13th of November by Heike Kaiser will be done by group 13
• The lecture given on 13th of November by MaryCarol Hunter will be done by groups 3 and 23
• This is to be completed until 26th of November

Assignment 3 - Images of Nature in your Environment - Steps until the next session

• Complete the steps that were due for November 13, in case you have not yet been able to do that
• until the next session (November 20th) the following steps should be completed:
  • complete section 'author's perspective'
  • complete section 'landscape and urban context'
  • keep both short and concise, use maps/schemes for illustrating the context.
  • make first sketches
• Please also read the general instructions for the working groups

Seminar participants on Facebook

You may wish to join the Facebook group of this seminar.

Next session

• Wednesday, 20th of November with Prof. Dr. Swantje Duthweiler (HSWT, DE) and Dr. Kristin Faurest (HU/US)