Projektseminar Assessing Everyday Landscapes For Planning and Design Objectives and Aims

This seminar aims to combine two learning objectives: first, to understand and apply different landscape assessment approaches, and second, to discuss the concept of 'Everyday Landscapes'. Background, theory, purpose and application of different landscape assessment approaches will be presented by taking a variety of international perspectives. Student participants will, parallel to a lecture series, apply assessment methods by performing small assessment projects (train and test in practice). For their assessment students select 'everyday landscapes' that are located in an environment they use 'every day'. Small international groups of participants will compare assessment findings and reflect on the different approaches taken. The focus on 'Everyday Landscapes' relates to core principles of both the European Landscape Convention and the (emerging) International Landscape Convention. These Conventions call for a new understanding and validation of people's everyday environment. -Fragmented into various components that are green, grey or blue, agricultural, historical or ecological, landscapes are often undervalued and neglected, seemingly belonging to everyone, but actually to no one.-[1] Seminar Framework and Structure Three phases of teaching and learning are organised to be held between 25th of October 2011 and 30th of January 2012. The seminar will be conducted online and include international groups of students that are working at different locations. Adobe Connect Software is used as virtual classroom and an additional WIKI for communication, organisation and asynchronous collaboration of students. Performance assessments are based on successful completion of four assignments. Depending on the number of completed assignments, the seminar workload translates into two or three ECTS. Students may earn 3 ECTS if they agree, with their supervisor, on one additional assignment. [1] IFLA Towards an International Landscape Convention, last retrieved on 7th of June 2011 http://www.iflaonline.org/administrator/components/com_tadr/files/28/Landscape%20Convention%20flyer%20amd%5B2%5D.pdf FB 06 Architektur, Stadtplanung, Landschaftsplanung Uni Kassel WiSe 2011/12 Landschaftsarchitektur und Landschaftsplanung Lehrveranstaltungspool FB 06 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bruns Diedrich