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== OLA Charta of Democratic Landscape Transformation ==
The vision, mission and values of the Open Landscape Academy are comprised in the OLA Charta of Democratic Landscape Transformation.
This is a living document we are constantly further developing.
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_43360_download&client_id=hfwu Download OLA Charta of Democratic Landscape Transformation] (Version June 2024)

== Session materials and recordings ==
* Session materials from the 2026 seminar can be [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_44658&client_id=hfwu accessed here]

== Unit 1: Mapping the Terrain ==
=== Key Readings ===
* Editors Shelley Egoz, Karsten Jørgensen, Deni Ruggeri (2018): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42758_download&client_id=hfwu Defining Landscape Democracy] (first three chapters)
* Schneidewind, Uwe et al (2016): [https://epub.wupperinst.org/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/6414/file/WP191.pdf Pledge for a Transformative Science - A conceptual framework]
* Council of Europe (2000):[http://www.coe.int/en/web/landscape/the-european-landscape-convention The Council of Europe Landscape Convention]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42757_download&client_id=hfwu Landscape Convention Contribution to human rights, democracy and sustainable development] (Council of Europe, 2018)
* LED Team (2019):[https://in-bo.unibo.it/issue/view/816 Landscape Education for Democracy] (Chapters 1-3, InBo Special Issue)
* Kühne, Olaf (2015): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42756_download&client_id=hfwu Landscape Concepts]
*The Dirt American Society of Landscape Architects blog [https://dirt.asla.org/2023/01/10/how-can-landscape-architects-be-better-activists/ about activism]
*Jeff Hou, Deni Ruggeri, Kofi Boone, et al: (2020). Design as Activism: A Framework for Actions in Landscape Architecture Education. Retrieved from <nowiki>https://designactivism.be.uw.edu/framework/</nowiki>, pages 12-15, 29-37 and 56-68.
*Shelley Egoz, Jala Makhzoumi and Gloria Pungetti (2011): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42752_download&client_id=hfwu The Right to Landscape:] An Introduction, in: The Right to Landscape: Contesting Landscape and Human Rights
* Faurest, Kristin (2018): [https://land8.com/listening-to-nature-and-each-other/ Listening to Nature - and Each Other]

== Unit 2: Entering the Process: A reflection on our role and agency ==
=== Key Readings ===
==== Key Articles ====
* Randy Hester, 2005: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_43278_download&client_id=hfwu Whose politics do you style?]
*Jeff Hou, Deni Ruggeri, Kofi Boone, et al: (2020). [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371939199_Design_As_Activism_Landscape_Architecture_Education_for_Social_Change_A_Framework_for_Actions_and_Other_Propositions Design as Activism], pages 12-15, 29-37 and 56-68.
*Rebecca Solnit, [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42768_download&client_id=hfwu Hope in the Dark. Chapt. Grounds for hope.]
*Kollektiv Orangotango: [https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/bb/99/16/oa9783839445198rvmViUleOfuFV.pdf This is not an Atlas. A global collection of counter cartographies.]

==== Websites, manuals and blogs ====
* Council of Europe, 2000: Compass: [https://www.coe.int/en/web/compass Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People]
* American Society of Landscape Architects: [https://dirt.asla.org/2023/01/10/how-can-landscape-architects-be-better-activists/ The Dirt blog on activism in landscape architecture]
* [https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/de-fiets-is-niets/ Podcast on how Dutch bicycling culture is the democratic result of citizen activism]
* Sadler et al: [https://placesjournal.org/article/field-notes-on-design-activism-1/?cn-reloaded=1 Field notes on activism]

* Education for Change: [https://designactivism.be.uw.edu/framework/chapter-1/ What is design activism?]

=== Case studies===
* Superblocks, Barcelona (Oriol Bohigas, Ildefons Cerdà)
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kmIUjHL0zs Video]
** [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-barcelonas-superblock-model-can-create-more-spaces-ahmad-helmi Linkedin]

* Urban forests, Miyawaki method
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jtg2q1gnU&ab_channel=Design-Essentialz Video]
** [https://urban-forests.com/en/ website]

* Vertical Garden, Patrick Blanc
** [https://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com website]
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=negbArI1JVA video]

* Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood, adventure playgrounds
** [https://files.websitebuilder.prositehosting.co.uk/d6/7b/d67bcdf0-d557-4b4b-8448-da5780fb65b1.pdf report]
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqMXplAI9Y video]

* Dimitris Pikionis, Greek Architect (Acropolis and the Hill of Philopappou)
** [http://www.eikastikon.gr/arxitektoniki/pikionis/en_txt_self_topography.html website]
** [https://youtu.be/uelgarqjEvE video]

=== Short List of Landscape Democracy 'Movers and Shakers' (to be extended) ===
* Wangari Maathai (Kenyan Green Belt movement)
* Jadav Payeng (Forest man)
* Kofi Boone (Black Landscapes Matter)
* Hoichi Kurisu (healing gardens, Oregon State Penitentiary garden)
* Randy Hester (UC Berkeley, Manteo, Big Wild, The Spoonbill project)
* Lawrence (Larry) Halprin, (The RSVP cycle, Levi’s Plaza and Headquarters)
* Karl Linn (UC Berkeley, Community Gardens)
* Mark Francis (Village homes)
* Anne Spirn (Mill Creek Project)
* Ken Reardon (University of Memphis, the East Saint Louis Project)
* Henry Sanoff (Planning Games)
* Ralph Erskine (Byker Redevelopment)
* Jeff Hou (Insurgent Urbanism, International district in Seattle)
* Walter Hood (UC Berkeley, Lafayette Park Oakland, CA)
* Samuel Mockbee (The Rural Studio)
* James Rojas (place-it)
* ReBar (Parking day/parklets)
* Giancarlo De Carlo (Team 10, Legitimizing architecture)
* Paula Horrigan (Cornell University; Rust to Green project)
* Christopher Alexander (The Oregon Experiment, Pattern Language)
* Julian Petrin et al., Hamburg (nexthamburg, German only)
* Leonie Sandercock (University of British Columbia, Collingwood Neighbourhood House)
* Klaus Overmeyer (Urban Catalyst Studio)
* Robert Jungk (Zukunftswerkstatt)
* Cecily Corti (Vinzi Rast mittendrin)
* Santiago Cirugeda, Seville Spain
* Plansinn.at
* Sonja Hörster http://www.partizipativ-gestalten.de (Germany)
* Dominika Tihanyi (Budapest)
* Monika Arzberger http://www.koine.de (Germany)
* Alessandra Orofino
* Khondaker Hasibul Kabir (Bangladesh)

== Unit 3 - Visioning and Co-Creation ==
* Gaete Cruz, Macarena; Ersoy, Aksel; Czischke, Darinka & van Bueren, Ellen (2022) [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/15710882.2022.2123928?scroll=top&needAccess=true&role=tab Towards a framework for urban landscape co-design: Linking the participation ladder and the design cycle], CoDesign, DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2022.2123928
* Sanders, Elizabeth B.-N. & Stappers, Pieter Jan (2008) [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710880701875068 Co-creation and the new landscapes of design], CoDesign, 4:1, 5-18, DOI: 10.1080/15710880701875068
* Sanders, Elizabeth B.-N. & Stappers, Pieter Jan (2014) [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262851486_Probes_toolkits_and_prototypes_Three_approaches_to_making_in_codesigning Probes, toolkits and prototypes: three approaches to making in codesigning], CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, 10:1, 5-14, DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2014.888183
* Krebs, Roland; Mayr, Stefan (EDs.) (2023): Future Public Spaces. Urban Design in Times of Crisis. Berlin, Jovis.
* Szilágyi-Nagy, Anna; Mihály, Regina (2019) [https://kulturaktiv.hu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/211014_With-children-in-all-spaces_online.pdf With children in all spaces. Online and offline community planning with young people.] Tips and methodology for transforming young people’s outdoor spaces for teachers and designers. Pécs, kultúrAktív Egyesület. ISBN 978-615-6382-01-6.
* McCann, Eugene J. (2001): [http://www.sfu.ca/~emccann/Professional%20Geographer%20Visioning.pdf Collaborative Visioning or Urban Planning as Therapy? The Politics of Public-Private Policy Making], The Professional Geographer, 53:2, 207-218, DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00280.
* Hofmann, Susanne (2019): [https://issuu.com/detail-magazine/docs/architecture_is_participation Architecture Is Participation. Die Baupiloten—Methods and Projects]. Berlin, Jovis.
* Delbecq, Andre L.; Van de Ven, Andrew H. & Gustafson, David (1975): Group Techniques for Program Planning. A guide to nominal group and Delphi processes. Glenview IL, Scott Foresman and Company. ISBN 0-673-07591-5
* Deip, P., Thesen, A., Motiwalla, J., & Seshardi, N. (1977): [https://www.aucd.org/docs/urc/Leadership_Institute/Subsequent%20Leadership%20Institute%20Materials/Nominal%20Group%20Technique.pdf Systems tools for project planning.] Bloomington, Indiana: International Development Institute.

== Unit 4 - Evaluation and Outlook ==
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_27129_download&client_id=hfwu Landscape Democracy Tool Box], from the first landscape democracy project
* Campilan, D., 2000. Participatory Evaluation of Participatory Research. Paper presented at the Forum on Evaluation of International Cooperation Projects: Centering on Development of Human Resources in the Field of Agriculture held on 6-7 December 2000at the International Cooperation Center for Agricultural Education (ICCAE) of Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

'''Websites'''
*[https://www.betterevaluation.org/en/plan/approach/participatory_evaluation Participatory Evaluation]
*[https://www.publicconsultinggroup.com/media/1272/pcg_collaborative_evaluation.pdf Participatory Evaluation PDF]
*[https://www.betterevaluation.org/methods-approaches/approaches/collaborative-outcomes-reporting Collaborative Outcomes Reporting]

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== Archive with reading lists and materials from previous courses ==
=== General: Materials and Recordings from previous seminars (free for everyone to use) ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_37998&client_id=hfwu LED2LEAP 2022 Materials and Recordings] (open access)
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_33126&client_id=hfwu LED2LEAP 2021 Materials and Recordings] (open access)
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_26530&client_id=hfwu LED2LEAP 2020 Materials and Recordings] (open access)
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_23004&client_id=hfwu LED 2019 Materials and Recordings] (open access)
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_20479&client_id=hfwu LED 2018 Materials and Recordings] (open access)
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_17766&client_id=hfwu LED 2017 Materials and Recordings] (open access)
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_14575&client_id=hfwu LED 2016 Materials and Recordings] (open access)

=== The Legal Framework of Landscape Democracy ===

'''POLICY FRAMEWORKS, LAWS & RESOLUTIONS'''

'''United Nations'''
* [http://habitat3.org/wp-content/uploads/New-Urban-Agenda-GA-Adopted-68th-Plenary-N1646655-E.pdf The New Urban Agenda] Quito Declaration on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements for All, UN resolution from December 2016
* [http://www.unece.org/env/pp/welcome.html The Aarhus Convention] on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

'''Council of Europe'''
* [https://www.coe.int/en/web/landscape European Landscape Convention] (Florence Convention, 2000)
* [https://www.coe.int/en/web/culture-and-heritage/faro-convention Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society] (Faro Convention, 2005)

'''European Union (Parliament and Council)'''
* [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32003L0004 Directive on public access to environmental information]
* [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32003L0035 Directive providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment]
*[https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/4bebf83d-60ba-11e9-b6eb-01aa75ed71a1?WT.mc_id=May2019 Policy Review: Past, present and future of democracy, 2019]
*[https://commission.europa.eu/system/files/2023-12/C_2023_8627_1_EN_ACT_part1_v7.pdf Commission Recommendation on promoting the engagement and effective participation of citizens and civil society organisations in public policy-making processes]

'''International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA-Europe)'''
* [https://www.iflaeurope.eu/assets/docs/IFLA_EU_resolution_Landscape_democracy_EN_signed.pdf Landscape Democracy Resolution]

'''European Council of Spatial Planners'''
* [http://www.ectp-ceu.eu/images/stories/PDF-docs/European%20Charter%20on%20Participatory%20Democracy%20English-final.pdf European Charter on Participatory Democracy in Spatial Planning Processes]

'''DEMOCRATIC LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION'''
*Shelley Egoz, Jala Makhzoumi and Gloria Pungetti (2011): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_26623_download&client_id=hfwu The Right to Landscape:] An Introduction, in: The Right to Landscape: Contesting Landscape and Human Rights
* [https://thenatureofcities.com/thejustcity/TheJustCityEssays.pdf The Just City Essays] - 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
*Jean McNiff (2002): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_26624_download&client_id=hfwu Action Research for Professional Development] - Concise advise for new action researchers
*John Kania & Mark Kramer (2011): [https://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact# Collective Impact,] Stanford Social Innovation Review
*Rittel, Webber (1973): [https://urbanpolicy.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Rittel+Webber_1973_PolicySciences4-2.pdf Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning]
*Merlijn van Hulst (2012): [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1473095212440425 Storytelling, a model of and a model for planning]
* Hester, Randolph (2006): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_33878_download&client_id=hfwu Design for Ecological Democracy]
* Wilson, Barbara (2020): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_33877_download&client_id=hfwu Disorientation as a Learning Objective]

'''LANDSCAPE CONCEPTS'''

'''Accompanying lecture reading:''' Bruns/Bartolomei, 2016 '[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14740_download&client_id=hfwu Concepts of Landscape]'

* Antrop, Marc; Kühne, Olaf (2015) [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_12628_download&client_id=hfwu Concepts of Landscape], in: Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes. The Differentiated Construction of Landscapes (Bruns, Kühne, Schönwald, Theile ed.)
*Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_12671_download&client_id=hfwu Why is landscape beautiful?] in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
* Kühne, Bruns et al: [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-04284-4_2 Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes]
*Kucan, Ana (2007). [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_12626_download&client_id=hfwu Constructing Landscape Conceptions]. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA spring 2007, 30-41. Munich: Callwey.
*Jackson, John Brinckerhoff (1980): "[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_12621_download&client_id=hfwu By way of conclusion. How to study the landscape]" In: The necessity for ruins, and other topics, 113-126. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
*Meinig, D. W. (1979): "[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_12656_download&client_id=hfwu The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene]." In: The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays, edited by D. W. Meinig and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 33-48. New York: Oxford University Press.

=== Democratic Landscape Analysis ===
'''Key Readings'''
* Angotti,Tom; Doble,Cheryl; Horrigan; Paula: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_27127_download&client_id=hfwu At the boundaries: The Shifting Sites of Service-Learning in Design and Planning]
*Cooke, Bill et al: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_27128_download&client_id=hfwu The case of participation as a tyranny]
*de la Pena, David et al: Design as Democracy ([https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_27131_download&client_id=hfwu Techniques Part])
*Ganz, Marshall: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_27126_download&client_id=hfwu Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements]
*Hester, Randy: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_27130_download&client_id=hfwu Labors of Love in the Public Landscape]
* Landscape Democracy Tool Box ([https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_27129_download&client_id=hfwu status April 2020])

=== Collaborative Visioning ===
'''Key Readings'''
*[https://issuu.com/unhabitat/docs/visioning_as_participatory_planning_tool UN Habitat: Visioning as Participatory Planning Tool]
*Apel, Heino (2004): [https://www.die-bonn.de/esprid/dokumente/doc-2004/apel04_02.pdf The Future Workshop]
*Ruggeri, Deni (2004): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14677_download&client_id=hfwu Crafting Westport], Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley , CA (co-author)
* N Harvey, CA Holmes et al: [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1440-172X.2012.02017.x?casa_token=Kz7nCR6tEpAAAAAA%3AGJYTFn1J6a1xo3mQBbc2NcXoSIQnFGjlm5whSNsZkoEIIrMeXE6IVsLD_h1VeFnStodmWTaPeiEIuGVB%20Nominal%20group%20technique:%20An%20effective%20method%20for%20obtaining%20group%20consensus Nominal group technique: An effective method for obtaining group consensus]
* Dunham, Randall: [https://sswm.info/sites/default/files/reference_attachments/DUNHAM%201998%20Nominal%20Group%20Technique%20-%20A%20Users'%20Guide.pdf Nominal Group Technique: A User's Guide]
*Vidal, R.V.V. (2005) [http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~rvvv/CPPS/6Chapter6Thefutureworkshop.pdf The Future Workshop: Democratic Problem Solving [Technical Report<nowiki>]</nowiki>], Denmark: Technological University of Denmark

'''Further Readings'''
*André L. Delbecq, Andrew H. Van de Ven: [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250958833_A_Group_Process_Model_For_Problem_Identification_and_Program_Planning A Group Process Model for Problem Identification and Program Planning]. In: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1971
* Jungk, R, & Müllert, N. (1987). Future workshops: How to create desirable futures. London: Institute for Social Inventions.
* Landscape Democracy Tool Box ([https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_27129_download&client_id=hfwu status April 2020])

=== Collaborative Design, Transformation and Testing ===
'''Prototypes'''
* Probes, Toolkits and Prototypes: Three Approaches to Making in Co-designing CoDesign, 2014 Vol. 10, No. 1, 5–14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2014.888183
* Histories and Futures of Research through Design: From Prototypes to Connected Things. http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/3192/875
* Probes and prototypes: a participatory action research approach to codesign. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15710882.2014.881884
* Bedö, V. (2019). Rapid Street Game Design: Prototyping Laboratory for Urban Change. In M. d. Lange & M. d. Waal (Eds.), The hackable city : digital media and collaborative city-making in the network society(pp. 51-65). Singapore: Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2694-3_3

'''Ethics of Prototyping'''
* Ethics by Design. Exploring Experiences of Harmony and Dissonance in Ethical Practice. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14606925.2019.1595428?needAccess=true
* Towards Ethical Principles for Participatory Design Practice https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2018.1502324
* Ethics for Design - online documentary (50min) https://ethicsfordesign.com/player?lang=en

'''Further Readings'''
*André L. Delbecq, Andrew H. Van de Ven: [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250958833_A_Group_Process_Model_For_Problem_Identification_and_Program_Planning A Group Process Model for Problem Identification and Program Planning]. In: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1971

*Protype bank from our lecture: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CvDpH6GKHo9srs3V1p7aiZqRaS94Bm2Qw6YQ9dUzr7g/edit?usp=sharing
*Three prototyping exercise from ideo: https://acumenacademy.org/blog/3-prototyping-exercises-get-unstuck-ideo
*Applying Prototyping in Landscape Design: https://ldvalidate.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/applying-prototyping-in-landscape-design/
*Public space prototypes: https://www.asla.org/uploadedFiles/CMS/Meetings_and_Events/2015_Annual_Meeting_Handouts/MON-D08_Public%20Space%20Prototypes.pdf
*Tactical urbanism: https://ahbelab.com/2017/11/16/from-prototype-to-permanent-tactical-urbanism-in-landscape-architecture/
*Type in your browser: Urban Prototyping Festival San Francisco

=== Concepts of Participation ===
* Arnstein, Sherry R.(1969): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14607_download&client_id=hfwu A Ladder of Citizen Participation], JAIP, Vol. 35, No. 4
*Hester, Randolph (1999): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14608_download&client_id=hfwu A Refrain with a View], UC Berkeley
*Hester, Randolph (2005): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14682_download&client_id=hfwu Whose Politics], Landscape Architecture
*Sanoff, Henry (2014): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14604_download&client_id=hfwu Multiple Views of Participatory Design], Focus
*Davis, Mike (1990): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14591_download&client_id=hfwu Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space], From: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
*Gaventa, John: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14616_download&client_id=hfwu The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts]
*Hester, Randolph (2012): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14613_download&client_id=hfwu Evaluating Community Design], Landscape Journal
*Day, Christopher (2002): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14610_download&client_id=hfwu Consensus Design], Architectural Press
*Furco, Andrew (1996): [http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1104&context=slceslgen Service-learning: A balanced approach to experiential education]

=== Further recommended readings and resources ===

*Burckhardt, Lucius (1957): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_12670_download&client_id=hfwu Urban Planning and Democracy] in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
*Burckhardt, Lucius (1974): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_12672_download&client_id=hfwu Who plans the planning?] in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)
*David, Harvey (2003): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14594_download&client_id=hfwu The Right to the City], International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 939–941
*Freire, Paulo (2000): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14609_download&client_id=hfwu Pedagogy of the Oppressed], Continuum
*Park, Peter: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14615_download&client_id=hfwu What Is Participatory Research? A Theoretical and Methodological Perspective]
*Selle, Klaus (1994): Was ist bloß mit der Planung los? Erkundungen auf dem Weg zum kooperativen Handeln.(GERMAN, not open access)
* [http://www.lifescape.eu/toolbox.html LIFEscape Handbook on Participative Landscape Planning]
*Hester, Randolph (2006): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14716_download&client_id=hfwu Design for Ecological Democracy - Fairness], The MIT Press

=== Community and Identity ===
*Hester, Randolph (2006): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14614_download&client_id=hfwu Design for Ecological Democracy], The MIT Press
*Spirn, Anne (2005): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14612_download&client_id=hfwu Restoring Mill Creek]
*Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14596_download&client_id=hfwu Cinematic Landscapes], In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.
*Gafford, Farrah D. (2013): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14593_download&client_id=hfwu It Was a Real Village: Community Identity Formation Among Black Middle-Class Residents in Pontchartrain Park], Journal of Urban History 39:36
*Woodend, Lorayne (2013): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14675_download&client_id=hfwu A Study into the Practice of Machizukuri], RTPI

'''Further recommended readings and resources:'''
*Girling, Cynthia (2006): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14617_download&client_id=hfwu Informing Design Charrettes], The Integrated Assessment Journal
*Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14592_download&client_id=hfwu Culture and Changing Landscape Structure], Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4.
* [http://www.seismicproject.eu/ SEISMIC project, An urban research and innovation project across 10 European countries]
* [http://www.urbact.eu/ URBACT programme, The European Territorial Cooperation programme aiming to foster sustainable integrated urban development across Europe]
* [http://communitybuilt.org/ CBS, Community-Built Association of the U.S.]
*Francis, Mark: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14620_download&client_id=hfwu A Case Study Method for Landscape Architecture]
*Hester, Randolph (2006): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14717_download&client_id=hfwu Design for Ecological Democracy - Sacredness], The MIT Press

=== Designing ===
*Hester, Randolph: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14605_download&client_id=hfwu Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness]
*Kot, Douglas and Ruggeri, Deni: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14618_download&client_id=hfwu Westport Case Study]
*Hester, Randolph: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14619_download&client_id=hfwu Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design]
*Smith, Nicola Dawn(2012): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14602_download&client_id=hfwu Design Charrette: A Vehicle for Consultation or Collaboration]
*Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14601_download&client_id=hfwu Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities]

'''A compilation of methods'''
*Wates, Nick: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_17896_download&client_id=hfwu The Community Planning Handbook: How people can shape their cities, towns & villages in any part of the world] (2nd ed 2014, Routledge)

'''Further recommended readings and resources:'''
*Ruggeri, Deni (2004): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14677_download&client_id=hfwu Crafting Westport], Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley , CA (co-author)
*Woodcraft, Saffron, et al.: [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14603_download&client_id=hfwu Design for Social Sustainability: A Framework for Creating Thriving New Communities]
*Salgado, Mariana, et al. (2015): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14599_download&client_id=hfwu Designing with Immigrants]
*Hussain, Sofia, et al. (2012): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14600_download&client_id=hfwu Participatory Design with Marginalized People in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunties Experienced in a Field Study in Cambodia], International Journal of Design, Vol. 6, No. 2
*Hester, Randolph (2006): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14718_download&client_id=hfwu Design for Ecological Democracy - Everyday Future], The MIT Press
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0I0Poe3qlg Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena on sustainable design and community involvement in Chile]
*D’hondt, Frank (2014): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14598_download&client_id=hfwu Better Cities for Kosovo: Visioning as Participatory Planning Tool],UN-Habitat report
*Vall, N. (2013): [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_14678_download&client_id=hfwu Social engineering and participation in Anglo-Swedish housing 1945–1976: Ralph Erskine's vernacular plan], Planning Perspectives, 28(2), 223-245
*Sanoff, Henry (2010): Democratic Design - Library access only.
*Sanoff, Henry (1999): Community participation methods in design and planning - Library access only.
* de la Pena, David et al(2017): Design and Democracy: [https://islandpress.org/book/design-as-democracy Techniques for Collective Creativity] Library access only

=== Communicating a Vision ===

* Storytelling example from the [http://www.williemiller.co.uk/stromness-urban-design-framework.htm Scottish Islands]

*Online decision making with [https://www.loomio.org/ loomio]

* [https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/p2usof1kzsq/ 'Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu]

* A toolkit for transforming abandoned spaces through the arts. https://issuu.com/mahatat/docs/toolkit_en._final_issuu

'''Storytelling theory'''
* Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton. 1998. Landscape narratives: design practices for telling stories. New York: J. Wiley. [https://books.google.hu/books?redir_esc=y&id=Z_MunOqKJ_UC&q=storytelling#v=snippet&q=storytelling&f=false GoogleBook].
* Lejano, Raul P., Mrill Ingram, and Helen M. Ingram. 2013. [http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3339650 The power of narrative in environmental networks]. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

'''Case study - Water Square Benthemplein'''
* Boer, Florian, Jens Jorritsma, and Dirk van Peijpe. 2010. De Urbanisten and the wondrous water square. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. [http://www.urbanisten.nl/wp/?portfolio=waterpleinen Webpage] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kujf4BTL3pE Video]

'''Case study - Los Angeles River '''
* Goldstein, B. E., A. T. Wessells, R. Lejano, and W. Butler. 2015. [https://works.bepress.com/bruce_goldstein/22/ Narrating Resilience: Transforming Urban Systems Through Collaborative Storytelling]. Urban Studies. 52 (7): 1285-1303.
* Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR). [http://folar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/folar-brochure_layout_2011.pdf Flyer about their activities connected to the river]. City walk, environmental education, and other water-related activities could be searched on their websites.
* Brownson, Omar, and Marsh, Emily. Urban Coast 4/1. December 2013. [http://urbancoast.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/V4_02_Brownson.pdf Los Angeles River 3.0: Changing the course of Los Angeles].

'''Learning democracy theory'''
* Council of Europe. 2016. [http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/Source/competences/CDC_en.pdf Competences for democratic culture: living together as equals in culturally diverse democratic societies].
* Bir̂zeá, Ceśar. 2000. [http://www.nefmi.gov.hu/letolt/nemzet/eu/Education%20for%20Democratic%20Citizenship.pdf Education for democratic citizenship: a lifelong learning perspective]. Strasbourg: Council for Cultural Co-operation of the Council of Europe.
* Brander, Patricia. 2012. [http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/eycb/Source/Compass_2012_FINAL.pdf Compass: manual for human rights education with young people]. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
* Huber, Josef, Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard, and Ildikó Lázár. 2015. [http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/pestalozzi/Source/Documentation/Pestalozzi4_EN.pdf TASKs for democracy: 60 activities to learn and assess transversal attitudes, skills and knowledge].

'''Games in urban planning examples'''
* BUG project: http://www.decisionproblem.com/bug/bug2.html
* Participatory Chinatown: http://www.participatorychinatown.org
* Stadtspieler: http://www.stadtspieler.com
* Block By Block: http://blockbyblock.org/about

'''Apps, webpages, toolkits'''
* Online debate app http://plugins.speakol.com
* CitySwipe App - the fastest way for you to tell us what you like and don't like about your Downtown http://www.dtsmcityswipe.com
* EngagementLab - From playing games, to making media, to running campaigns https://elab.emerson.edu/about
* Participedia - catalogue and compare the performance of participatory political processes https://participedia.net/en/about
* Online toolbox with the most important engagement tools and their descriptions. https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/do-it/techniquesapproaches

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Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

[https://landscape.limequery.com/618883?newtest=Y&lang=en Register now]

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2026|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2026|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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= Understanding Democratic Landscape Transformation =
* April 1 – June 17, 2026

'''Rationale'''

This assignment consists of a sequence of individual and group activities aimed at mapping, exploring and deepening your knowledge of critical concepts and theories associated with landscape democracy and the agency of planners and designers in promoting democratic landscape change. This will become the core knowledge that you will take away from this seminar and apply in your future as a professional and individual.

'''Elements of this assignment'''
# You will begin this assignment by drafting a '''landscape democracy visual manifesto''' representing your personal understanding of the relationship of landscape and democracy before the seminar start;
# Integral part of this assignment consists of familiarizing yourself with a [[Resources and Literature Landscape and Democracy|selection of seminar readings]] from which you will be asked to '''identify core concepts and definitions of those concepts''' which will be shared with the rest of the class on the wiki. This is a team activity.

== Your ‘Landscape Democracy’ visual manifesto ==
*Start: April 1, 2026
*Due: April 20, 2025

'''MANIFESTO''' ''[man-uh-fes-toh]'', noun, plural manifestoes. A public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.

In your manifesto, you will express your very personal and individual beliefs and understanding of landscape democracy.
You can use any medium you like. Your manifesto should include visual evidence (photography, graphics, etc) of landscape democracy challenges in your context and/or home country.
You are encouraged to refer to your everyday environment

'''Submission:'''
*Add your manifesto on our seminar MIRO board (link will be shared during session)
*During the session, we will discuss and reflect your manifestoes in parallel discussion groups. This becomes also the basis of your team composition and team work for the remaining parts of the seminar.

== Readings, concepts and definitions ==
*Start: April 1, 2026
*Due: June 17, 2026

Working in transnational teams, express your personal understanding of the relation of landscape and democracy in the form of a concept map with linking words or any other diagrammatic representation.
Please make your maps very visual and not just verbal. Think critically about why one map differs from another
Please make use of our [[Resources_and_Literature_Landscape_and_Democracy|reading list.]] We are always open for suggestions of how to extend this list.

'''About concept mapping'''

Before starting the exercise you can read this article by Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. Cañas about [http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them].

This paper gives a good explanation of how concept maps are conceived and developed.

You can use any tool you like for producing your concept map. However, since the result needs to be submitted digitally we recommend the following open source software for producing your maps:

* [http://cmap.ihmc.us Cmap Tools] >>> you can also work with your group on the Cmap cloud doing a shared map
* [http://vue.tufts.edu VUE - The Visual Understanding Environment]

'''Submission:'''
*Upload your concept map on the wiki in your team area until '''June 17, 2026, 18 pm CEST'''
*you will receive an indication on where to add your concept map
*During the last session, your conceptual reflection will be the basis of the co-creation workshop for the Open Landscape Academy

'''Evaluation criteria'''
*Timely completion of activities
*conceptual depth and logical argumentation of concept definitions
*Adequate level of abstraction

= Practicing Democratic Landscape Transformation =
*Start: April 22, 2026
*Due: June 3, 2026

This set of team exercises and learning activities gives every participant the possibility to apply the critical theories, methods and approaches of democratic landscape transformation to a concrete case study area.

=== How to find a case study area?===
'''We suggest the following process:'''
*Every participant enters the course on the basis of their individual manifesto and the underlying local landscape democracy challenges. Usually, there is a concrete spatial context related to this.
*Based on this, we will form mixed teams after April 16. On April 23, these teams will come together online and discuss their local challenges and manifestoes.
*You develop a community and a power map for each case and discuss this across cultures
*For the co-designing phase, you select one case to work on a collaborative vision and participatory prototyping
*All teams will receive their own wiki page for documenting the process and results

=== Elements and Activities ===
The practice case will be developed step by step, as we continue the programme, with the following elements:
* Community map (individual)
* Power map (current and desired power map) (individual)
* Collaborative Vision (team on one selected case)
* Design ideas for achieving the vision and prototypes of ideas (team on one selected case)

'''Role play'''

Community and power maps will be presented and discussed within the framework of a role play exercise on May 21. During the role play, the team members will think themselves into the roles of design activists. Every team member is invited to discover role models of design activists beforehand. These can be known designers or activists from you own local context. The idea is that you discuss the community challenge and the power map during the role pay and you mimic the process of a possible transformation approach.

'''Vision and design ideas'''

The teams ideas for prototypes will be presented on June 18 during the online class. This session might be integrated into the landscape forum and the OLA workshop in Vác, Hungary.

'''Evaluation criteria'''

*Critical analysis
*Conscious transfer of theories to the practice case
*Constructive collaboration in the team
*Timely completion of activities

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'''>>> Back to [[Seminar_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2026|seminar overview]]'''

=Visual overview of the seminar process=
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2026.jpg|1000px]]

= Understanding Democratic Landscape Transformation =
* April 1 – June 17, 2026

'''Rationale'''

This assignment consists of a sequence of individual and group activities aimed at mapping, exploring and deepening your knowledge of critical concepts and theories associated with landscape democracy and the agency of planners and designers in promoting democratic landscape change. This will become the core knowledge that you will take away from this seminar and apply in your future as a professional and individual.

'''Elements of this assignment'''
# You will begin this assignment by drafting a '''landscape democracy visual manifesto''' representing your personal understanding of the relationship of landscape and democracy before the seminar start;
# Integral part of this assignment consists of familiarizing yourself with a [[Resources and Literature Landscape and Democracy|selection of seminar readings]] from which you will be asked to '''identify core concepts and definitions of those concepts''' which will be shared with the rest of the class on the wiki. This is a team activity.

== Your ‘Landscape Democracy’ visual manifesto ==
*Start: April 1, 2026
*Due: April 20, 2025

'''MANIFESTO''' ''[man-uh-fes-toh]'', noun, plural manifestoes. A public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.

In your manifesto, you will express your very personal and individual beliefs and understanding of landscape democracy.
You can use any medium you like. Your manifesto should include visual evidence (photography, graphics, etc) of landscape democracy challenges in your context and/or home country.
You are encouraged to refer to your everyday environment

'''Submission:'''
*Add your manifesto on our seminar MIRO board (link will be shared during session)
*During the session, we will discuss and reflect your manifestoes in parallel discussion groups. This becomes also the basis of your team composition and team work for the remaining parts of the seminar.

== Readings, concepts and definitions ==
*Start: April 1, 2026
*Due: June 17, 2026

Working in transnational teams, express your personal understanding of the relation of landscape and democracy in the form of a concept map with linking words or any other diagrammatic representation.
Please make your maps very visual and not just verbal. Think critically about why one map differs from another
Please make use of our [[Resources_and_Literature_Landscape_and_Democracy|reading list.]] We are always open for suggestions of how to extend this list.

'''About concept mapping'''

Before starting the exercise you can read this article by Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. Cañas about [http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryCmaps/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.htm Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them].

This paper gives a good explanation of how concept maps are conceived and developed.

You can use any tool you like for producing your concept map. However, since the result needs to be submitted digitally we recommend the following open source software for producing your maps:

* [http://cmap.ihmc.us Cmap Tools] >>> you can also work with your group on the Cmap cloud doing a shared map
* [http://vue.tufts.edu VUE - The Visual Understanding Environment]

'''Submission:'''
*Upload your concept map on the wiki in your team area until '''June 17, 2026, 18 pm CEST'''
*you will receive an indication on where to add your concept map
*During the last session, your conceptual reflection will be the basis of the co-creation workshop for the Open Landscape Academy

'''Evaluation criteria'''
*Timely completion of activities
*conceptual depth and logical argumentation of concept definitions
*Adequate level of abstraction

= Practicing Democratic Landscape Transformation =
*Start: April 22, 2026
*Due: June 3, 2026

This set of team exercises and learning activities gives every participant the possibility to apply the critical theories, methods and approaches of democratic landscape transformation to a concrete case study area.

=== How to find a case study area?===
'''We suggest the following process:'''
*Every participant enters the course on the basis of their individual manifesto and the underlying local landscape democracy challenges. Usually, there is a concrete spatial context related to this.
*Based on this, we will form mixed teams after April 16. On April 23, these teams will come together online and discuss their local challenges and manifestoes.
*You develop a community and a power map for each case and discuss this across cultures
*For the co-designing phase, you select one case to work on a collaborative vision and participatory prototyping
*All teams will receive their own wiki page for documenting the process and results

=== Elements and Activities ===
The practice case will be developed step by step, as we continue the programme, with the following elements:
* Community map (individual)
* Power map (current and desired power map) (individual)
* Collaborative Vision (team on one selected case)
* Design ideas for achieving the vision and prototypes of ideas (team on one selected case)

'''Role play'''

Community and power maps will be presented and discussed within the framework of a role play exercise on May 21. During the role play, the team members will think themselves into the roles of design activists. Every team member is invited to discover role models of design activists beforehand. These can be known designers or activists from you own local context. The idea is that you discuss the community challenge and the power map during the role pay and you mimic the process of a possible transformation approach.

'''Vision and design ideas'''

The teams ideas for prototypes will be presented on June 18 during the online class. This session might be integrated into the landscape forum and the OLA workshop in Vác, Hungary.

'''Evaluation criteria'''

*Critical analysis
*Conscious transfer of theories to the practice case
*Constructive collaboration in the team
*Timely completion of activities

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Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

[https://landscape.limequery.com/618883?newtest=Y&lang=en Register now]

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2026|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2026|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:50:16Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2026.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2026]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2026.jpg|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 1 to June 17, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET for other time zones]]

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description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

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description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
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Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

[https://landscape.limequery.com/618883?newtest=Y&lang=en Register now]

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:49:40Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2026.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2026]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2026.jpg|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

{{#ev:youtube|
id=H_5Se0zOGHM|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

{{#ev:youtube|
id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
}}

Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

[https://landscape.limequery.com/618883?newtest=Y&lang=en Register now]

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

File:Ola seminar programme overview 2026.jpg

2026-02-24T17:49:17Z

Efetzer:

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:34:03Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2026.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2026]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2025.png|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

{{#ev:youtube|
id=H_5Se0zOGHM|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

{{#ev:youtube|
id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
}}

Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

[https://landscape.limequery.com/618883?newtest=Y&lang=en Register now]

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2026.png

2026-02-24T17:33:38Z

Efetzer:

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:20:34Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2025.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2025]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2025.png|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

{{#ev:youtube|
id=H_5Se0zOGHM|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

{{#ev:youtube|
id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
}}

Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

[https://landscape.limequery.com/618883?newtest=Y&lang=en Register now]

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:19:54Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2025.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2025]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2025.png|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

{{#ev:youtube|
id=H_5Se0zOGHM|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

{{#ev:youtube|
id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
}}

Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.



'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:19:30Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2025.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2025]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2025.png|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

{{#ev:youtube|
id=H_5Se0zOGHM|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

{{#ev:youtube|
id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
}}

Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.



'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:18:55Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2025.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2025]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2025.png|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

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{{#ev:youtube|
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alignment=right|
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Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

''''''

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:18:34Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2025.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2025]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2025.png|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

{{#ev:youtube|
id=H_5Se0zOGHM|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

{{#ev:youtube|
id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
}}

Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

>>> ''''''

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:17:59Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2025.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2025]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2025.png|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

{{#ev:youtube|
id=H_5Se0zOGHM|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

{{#ev:youtube|
id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
}}

Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

>> [https://landscape.limequery.com/618883?newtest=Y&lang=en Register now]

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T17:07:16Z

Efetzer:

[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2025.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2025]]
[[File:Ola seminar programme overview 2025.png|380px|thumb|'''Seminar process:''' Click to enlarge. We meet weekly online at 18 pm CET on Wednesday from April 2 to July 2, an additional meeting opportunity is weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 pm CET]]

{{#ev:youtube|
id=H_5Se0zOGHM|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description=Get an impression from our workshop in Miskolc in 2021 with the community of the dr Ámbédkar School
}}

{{#ev:youtube|
id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
dimensions=380|
alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
}}

Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 1, 2026''' and finishes on '''June 16, 2026'''
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
*[[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/ Landscape Forum] and the CABULAND project.
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026

2026-02-24T16:52:30Z

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Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org Open Landscape Academy] seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

'''Upcoming online seminar:'''
*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 2, 2025''' and finishes on '''July 2, 2025'''
*[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_43939_download&client_id=hfwu Download course syllabus document]
*Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
*In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
* [[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
*The 2025 onsite programme (optional) will take place in [[Budapest-Vác_Living_Lab|Vác, north of Budapest, Hungary]], from June 13 - 22, 2025
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy], a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

'''The question driving our project is:''' How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

'''For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:'''
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ Open Landscape Academy website]
* [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta of Values]

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Participation in the [[Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|OLA working groups]]
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2025|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|1200px]]

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2026-02-24T16:44:19Z

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** Learning Objectives Seminar 'Democratic Landscape Transformation'|Learning Objectives
** Seminar Assignments Democratic Landscape Transformation 2025|Seminar Assignments
** Working Groups Democratic Landscape Transformation 2025|Working Groups
** Resources and Literature Landscape and Democracy|Reading List
** Concept Map Landscape and Democracy|Concepts
** Editing Help|Editing Help

* The OLA Project (2022-2025)
** Towards the Open Landscape Academy|About OLA
** OLA Project Team |OLA Team
** Monitoring and Evaluation of the Open Landscape Academy ERASMUS Project|Monitoring

*OLA Living Labs
**Romagna Living Lab|Romagna Living Lab
**Athens Living Lab|Athens Living Lab
**Budapest-Vác Living Lab|Budapest-Vác Living Lab
**Villaggio Solidale|Villaggio Solidale Living Lab

*Past seminars
** Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2025|OLA Seminar 2025
** Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2024|OLA Seminar 2024
** Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2023|OLA Seminar 2023

*
* The LED2LEAP Project (2019-2022)
** Strategic Partnership LED2LEAP|About
**Project Reports and Outputs|Project reports
** Project Team LED2LEAP|Team
**LED2LEAP Living Labs|Our Living Labs

* TOOLBOX

* The LED Project (2015-2018)
** Strategic Partnership Landscape Education for Democracy|About
** Output 1 - The Landscape Education for Democracy Online Course|Course
** Output 2 - The LED Certificate|Certificate
** Output 3 - The LED Process Report|Book
** Partner Institutions|Partners
*Archive
**LED2LEAP Intensive Programme Lucca 2022|Lucca 2022
**LED2LEAP Intensive Programme Nürtingen 2022|Nürtingen 2022
** Seminar Landscape Education for Democracy 2022|LED Seminar 2022
**LED2LEAP Intensive Programme Miskolc 2021|Miskolc 2021
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Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2024

2026-01-09T14:16:08Z

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[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2024.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2024]]

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Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,
[[File:OLA Summer 2023 Graphical Course Overview.jpg|380px|thumb|We meet weekly online at 18 pm on Wednesday from April 3 to July 2]]

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the Open Landscape Academy: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 3, 2024''' and finishes on '''July 2, 2024'''
*Sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST. [[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42770_download&client_id=hfwu Download course syllabus]
*The 2024 onsite programme will take place in Athens, Greece, from May 24 to June 1, 2024
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of Open Landscape Academy, a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

The question driving the project is how we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation.

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2024|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42770_download&client_id=hfwu Download course syllabus]

= Working Groups =
* [http://Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2024 Working Groups 2024]

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
[[File:EN-Funded by the EU-POS.jpg|left|420px|]]
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2024

2026-01-09T14:15:52Z

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[[File:OLA Course Announcement Square 2024.png|380px|thumb|Course announcement 2024]]

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id=U1FlOjd1bG8|
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alignment=right|
description= A video documentation of one of our first courses, still up to date in most aspects.
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Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,
[[File:OLA Summer 2023 Graphical Course Overview.jpg|380px|thumb|We meet weekly online at 18 pm on Wednesday from April 3 to July 2]]

We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!

*Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
*Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
*Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?

Then participate in the Open Landscape Academy: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

*Our next open online seminar will start on '''Wednesday, April 3, 2024''' and finishes on '''July 2, 2024'''
*Sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST. [[OLA_Project_Team|Meet our team]]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42770_download&client_id=hfwu Download course syllabus]
*The 2024 onsite programme will take place in Athens, Greece, from May 24 to June 1, 2024
*We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
*For any further information please email us under ''info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org''
*For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: [[Towards the Open Landscape Academy]]

== Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation ==

Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a [[OLA_Project_Team|team of practitioners]] from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.

It is one of three components of Open Landscape Academy, a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.

The other two parts of OLA are:
*Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
*Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

The question driving the project is how we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation.

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.

The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.

We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.

== Learning Objectives ==
* Please visit our [[Learning_Objectives_Seminar_'Democratic_Landscape_Transformation'|Learning Objectives]] over view page.

= Assignments and Course Requirements=
* Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
* Completion of the [[Seminar_Assignments_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2024|course assignment]]
* Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42770_download&client_id=hfwu Download course syllabus]

== Working Groups ==
* [http://Working_Groups_Democratic_Landscape_Transformation_2024 Working Groups 2024]

= ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium =
[[File:EN-Funded by the EU-POS.jpg|left|420px|]]
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

Monitoring and Evaluation of the Open Landscape Academy ERASMUS Project

2026-01-09T08:43:27Z

Efetzer: /* WP 5: Athens Living Lab */

On this page we have compiled all monitoring and evaluation reports generated within the lifetime of the ERASMUS Cooperation Project 'OLA - Towards and Open Landscape Academy for Democratic Landscape Transformation'

== Set of indicators ==
Overall, the following indicators were guiding the design of our evaluation formats:

'''Quantitative indicators:'''
* Number of educators joining OLA during the project from outside the consortium;
* Number of fields of knowledge integrated into the project
* Number of students attending to OLA during the project (divided by country and school of provenance);
* Total number of students;
* Number of activists and professional practitioners who joined OLA during the project;
* Number of people (including educators, students, stakeholders, community members,) reached during the project;
* Number of underserved groups and communities engaged as a result of the project
* Number of sustainable development goals impacted by the project activities

'''Qualitative indicators:'''
* educators’ perspectives on being part of OLA;
* sense of equity in addressing democracy challenges;
* sense of inclusiveness and accessibility to joining OLA from outside the consortium;
* Accessibility inside the network in reaching out other members of OLA;
* Types and variety of democracy challenges addressed during the program;
* an OLA ‘partner barometer’ informed by pre-post activity surveys to gauge the transformative nature of the project principles onto all participants.
* A reflection on challenges and opportunities faced and practical ways to overcome these challenges in subsequent project phases

== Monitoring and Evaluation Formats ==
* Pre- and post surveys in the context of online and onsite learning activities
* Pre- and post team survey (development of values, understanding, competences)
* Focus groups
* Reflection workshops

== Results and reports ==
=== WP 2 'Open Landscape Academy' and WP 3 'Learning and Facilitation Materials' ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44549_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA Online Seminar Evaluation 2024]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44553_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_Direction_for_Future_ OLA Reflection October 2024]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44552_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA EDRA Presentation 2025]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44550_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA Online Seminar Evaluation 2025]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44551_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_Comparative Analysis OLA Seminar Evolution from 2024 to 2025]
=== WP 4: Romagna Living Lab ===
* [https://padlet.com/druggeri1/ola-2023-ravenna-summer-intensive-reflections-k3eoij551vuhdtae?token=QkFoN0J6b01jR0Y1Ykc5aFpIc0lPZ3h3ZFhKd2IzTmxTU0lTYzNWeVptRmpaVjkwYjJ0bGJnWTZCa1ZVT2d4MlpYSnphVzl1U1NJR01nWTdCMVE2REhWelpYSmZhV1JwQkkvVnNRczZEMlY0Y0dseVpYTmZZW WP4 Romagna Living Lab Reflections 2023]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44583_download&client_id=hfwu WP 4 Overall Monitoring Romagna Living Lab]
=== WP 5: Athens Living Lab ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44587_download&client_id=hfwu WP5 Overall Monitoring Report Athens Living Lab]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44555_download&client_id=hfwu WP 5 Athens OLA Living Lab Workshop Evaluation Presentation]

=== WP 6: Vac-Budapest Living Lab ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44586_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Overall Monitoring Vac-Budapest Living Lab]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44554_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Vac-Budapest OLA Living Lab Workshop Evaluation Presentation]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44585_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Dissemination Strategy and Activities]

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|2000px]]

Monitoring and Evaluation of the Open Landscape Academy ERASMUS Project

2026-01-09T08:35:40Z

Efetzer: /* Results and reports */

On this page we have compiled all monitoring and evaluation reports generated within the lifetime of the ERASMUS Cooperation Project 'OLA - Towards and Open Landscape Academy for Democratic Landscape Transformation'

== Set of indicators ==
Overall, the following indicators were guiding the design of our evaluation formats:

'''Quantitative indicators:'''
* Number of educators joining OLA during the project from outside the consortium;
* Number of fields of knowledge integrated into the project
* Number of students attending to OLA during the project (divided by country and school of provenance);
* Total number of students;
* Number of activists and professional practitioners who joined OLA during the project;
* Number of people (including educators, students, stakeholders, community members,) reached during the project;
* Number of underserved groups and communities engaged as a result of the project
* Number of sustainable development goals impacted by the project activities

'''Qualitative indicators:'''
* educators’ perspectives on being part of OLA;
* sense of equity in addressing democracy challenges;
* sense of inclusiveness and accessibility to joining OLA from outside the consortium;
* Accessibility inside the network in reaching out other members of OLA;
* Types and variety of democracy challenges addressed during the program;
* an OLA ‘partner barometer’ informed by pre-post activity surveys to gauge the transformative nature of the project principles onto all participants.
* A reflection on challenges and opportunities faced and practical ways to overcome these challenges in subsequent project phases

== Monitoring and Evaluation Formats ==
* Pre- and post surveys in the context of online and onsite learning activities
* Pre- and post team survey (development of values, understanding, competences)
* Focus groups
* Reflection workshops

== Results and reports ==
=== WP 2 'Open Landscape Academy' and WP 3 'Learning and Facilitation Materials' ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44549_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA Online Seminar Evaluation 2024]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44553_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_Direction_for_Future_ OLA Reflection October 2024]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44552_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA EDRA Presentation 2025]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44550_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA Online Seminar Evaluation 2025]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44551_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_Comparative Analysis OLA Seminar Evolution from 2024 to 2025]
=== WP 4: Romagna Living Lab ===
* [https://padlet.com/druggeri1/ola-2023-ravenna-summer-intensive-reflections-k3eoij551vuhdtae?token=QkFoN0J6b01jR0Y1Ykc5aFpIc0lPZ3h3ZFhKd2IzTmxTU0lTYzNWeVptRmpaVjkwYjJ0bGJnWTZCa1ZVT2d4MlpYSnphVzl1U1NJR01nWTdCMVE2REhWelpYSmZhV1JwQkkvVnNRczZEMlY0Y0dseVpYTmZZW WP4 Romagna Living Lab Reflections 2023]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44583_download&client_id=hfwu WP 4 Overall Monitoring Romagna Living Lab]
=== WP 5: Athens Living Lab ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44555_download&client_id=hfwu WP 5 Athens OLA Living Lab Workshop Evaluation Presentation]
=== WP 6: Vac-Budapest Living Lab ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44586_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Overall Monitoring Vac-Budapest Living Lab]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44554_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Vac-Budapest OLA Living Lab Workshop Evaluation Presentation]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44585_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Dissemination Strategy and Activities]

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|2000px]]

Monitoring and Evaluation of the Open Landscape Academy ERASMUS Project

2026-01-09T08:32:47Z

Efetzer: /* Results and reports */

On this page we have compiled all monitoring and evaluation reports generated within the lifetime of the ERASMUS Cooperation Project 'OLA - Towards and Open Landscape Academy for Democratic Landscape Transformation'

== Set of indicators ==
Overall, the following indicators were guiding the design of our evaluation formats:

'''Quantitative indicators:'''
* Number of educators joining OLA during the project from outside the consortium;
* Number of fields of knowledge integrated into the project
* Number of students attending to OLA during the project (divided by country and school of provenance);
* Total number of students;
* Number of activists and professional practitioners who joined OLA during the project;
* Number of people (including educators, students, stakeholders, community members,) reached during the project;
* Number of underserved groups and communities engaged as a result of the project
* Number of sustainable development goals impacted by the project activities

'''Qualitative indicators:'''
* educators’ perspectives on being part of OLA;
* sense of equity in addressing democracy challenges;
* sense of inclusiveness and accessibility to joining OLA from outside the consortium;
* Accessibility inside the network in reaching out other members of OLA;
* Types and variety of democracy challenges addressed during the program;
* an OLA ‘partner barometer’ informed by pre-post activity surveys to gauge the transformative nature of the project principles onto all participants.
* A reflection on challenges and opportunities faced and practical ways to overcome these challenges in subsequent project phases

== Monitoring and Evaluation Formats ==
* Pre- and post surveys in the context of online and onsite learning activities
* Pre- and post team survey (development of values, understanding, competences)
* Focus groups
* Reflection workshops

== Results and reports ==
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44549_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA Online Seminar Evaluation 2024]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44553_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_Direction_for_Future_ OLA Reflection October 2024]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44552_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA EDRA Presentation 2025]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44550_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA Online Seminar Evaluation 2025]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44551_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_Comparative Analysis OLA Seminar Evolution from 2024 to 2025]
* [https://padlet.com/druggeri1/ola-2023-ravenna-summer-intensive-reflections-k3eoij551vuhdtae?token=QkFoN0J6b01jR0Y1Ykc5aFpIc0lPZ3h3ZFhKd2IzTmxTU0lTYzNWeVptRmpaVjkwYjJ0bGJnWTZCa1ZVT2d4MlpYSnphVzl1U1NJR01nWTdCMVE2REhWelpYSmZhV1JwQkkvVnNRczZEMlY0Y0dseVpYTmZZW WP4 Romagna Living Lab Reflections 2023]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44583_download&client_id=hfwu WP 4 Overall Monitoring Romagna Living Lab]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44555_download&client_id=hfwu WP 5 Athens OLA Living Lab Workshop Evaluation Presentation]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44586_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Overall Monitoring Vac-Budapest Living Lab]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44554_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Vac-Budapest OLA Living Lab Workshop Evaluation Presentation]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44585_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Dissemination Strategy and Activities]

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|2000px]]

Monitoring and Evaluation of the Open Landscape Academy ERASMUS Project

2026-01-09T08:26:44Z

Efetzer: /* Results and reports */

On this page we have compiled all monitoring and evaluation reports generated within the lifetime of the ERASMUS Cooperation Project 'OLA - Towards and Open Landscape Academy for Democratic Landscape Transformation'

== Set of indicators ==
Overall, the following indicators were guiding the design of our evaluation formats:

'''Quantitative indicators:'''
* Number of educators joining OLA during the project from outside the consortium;
* Number of fields of knowledge integrated into the project
* Number of students attending to OLA during the project (divided by country and school of provenance);
* Total number of students;
* Number of activists and professional practitioners who joined OLA during the project;
* Number of people (including educators, students, stakeholders, community members,) reached during the project;
* Number of underserved groups and communities engaged as a result of the project
* Number of sustainable development goals impacted by the project activities

'''Qualitative indicators:'''
* educators’ perspectives on being part of OLA;
* sense of equity in addressing democracy challenges;
* sense of inclusiveness and accessibility to joining OLA from outside the consortium;
* Accessibility inside the network in reaching out other members of OLA;
* Types and variety of democracy challenges addressed during the program;
* an OLA ‘partner barometer’ informed by pre-post activity surveys to gauge the transformative nature of the project principles onto all participants.
* A reflection on challenges and opportunities faced and practical ways to overcome these challenges in subsequent project phases

== Monitoring and Evaluation Formats ==
* Pre- and post surveys in the context of online and onsite learning activities
* Pre- and post team survey (development of values, understanding, competences)
* Focus groups
* Reflection workshops

== Results and reports ==
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44549_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA Online Seminar Evaluation 2024]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44553_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_Direction_for_Future_ OLA Reflection October 2024]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44552_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA EDRA Presentation 2025]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44550_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_OLA Online Seminar Evaluation 2025]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44551_download&client_id=hfwu WP2-3_Comparative Analysis OLA Seminar Evolution from 2024 to 2025]
* [https://padlet.com/druggeri1/ola-2023-ravenna-summer-intensive-reflections-k3eoij551vuhdtae?token=QkFoN0J6b01jR0Y1Ykc5aFpIc0lPZ3h3ZFhKd2IzTmxTU0lTYzNWeVptRmpaVjkwYjJ0bGJnWTZCa1ZVT2d4MlpYSnphVzl1U1NJR01nWTdCMVE2REhWelpYSmZhV1JwQkkvVnNRczZEMlY0Y0dseVpYTmZZW WP4 Romagna Living Lab Reflections 2023]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44583_download&client_id=hfwu WP 4 Overall Monitoring Romagna Living Lab]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44555_download&client_id=hfwu WP 5 Athens OLA Living Lab Workshop Evaluation Presentation]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44554_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Vac-Budapest OLA Living Lab Workshop Evaluation Presentation]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44585_download&client_id=hfwu WP 6 Dissemination Strategy and Activities]

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|2000px]]

Budapest-Vác Living Lab

2026-01-09T08:16:54Z

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[[File:Group Photo Forum Budapest 2025 Cropped.jpg|800px|thumb|right|OLA Summer School and Landscape Forum Budapest-Vác June 2025]]
== OLA Partners for the Budapest-Vác Living Lab ==
*'''Local living lab promoters''': MATE - Hungarian University for Agriculture and Life Sciences (university partner) and KulturAktív (NGO partner)
* '''[[OLA_Project_Team#Hungary:_MATE_-_Hungarian_University_for_Agriculture_and_Life_Sciences_(university_partner)_and_KulturAkt%C3%ADv_(NGO_partner)|Team members]]'''

== Video Impressions of our Living Lab Activities ==

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== Background of the Budapest-Vác Living Lab ==
=== Transformation of the LADDER Living Lab – OLA Focus on Vác ===

The LADDER Living Lab began as a platform for involving children and young people in the democratic transformation of their everyday environments. After several years of community-based schoolyard design, the Living Lab broadened its mission toward a larger goal: supporting child-friendly urban development through democratic landscape transformation.

Building on the “Shape Your School” brand and earlier schoolyard co-design projects, the Living Lab expanded its scope to engage not only individual schools but the wider community of Vác. This shift allowed us to explore how children and families experience the city and how their perspectives can actively shape urban planning.

=== Achievements in Vác ===

'''Deepened community involvement:'''
The Living Lab established strong cooperation with local institutions, schools, NGOs, municipal actors, and residents. A series of community discussions, workshops, and public events brought together families, teachers, merchants, cultural institutions, environmental educators, seniors, and youth. These activities helped gather collective memories, map beloved places, and identify barriers to independent mobility and access to nature.

'''School-based learning and co-design:'''
Landscape architecture students facilitated interactive sessions in several primary schools in Vác. These activities combined environmental education with participatory design, enabling children to express how they connect with nature and what improvements they envision for their school grounds and neighbourhoods. Students also conducted research to understand children’s perceptions of green spaces and the broader urban environment.

'''City-wide research and community mapping:'''
The Living Lab carried out an extensive survey involving hundreds of residents to assess public perceptions of green and community spaces. This work—including interviews, questionnaires, archival research, and on-site observation—laid the groundwork for identifying key sites for future community-led planning and interventions.

'''Capacity building and professional training:'''
The Living Lab developed and shared methods of participatory planning with professionals, university students, teachers, and municipal representatives. Workshops and presentations strengthened local skills for engaging youth in landscape transformation and promoted the Living Lab’s tools and approaches nationally.

=== Goals for the Child-Friendly Vác Project ===

The current phase of the Living Lab focuses on making Vác a more child-friendly, nature-oriented city. This includes:
*Exploration: Understanding how children connect with nature in different parts of Vác and identifying challenges in the urban environment.
*Visioning and Planning: Co-creating a shared vision and concrete plans that offer children more opportunities to explore, learn from, and enjoy nature in their everyday lives.
*Implementation: Introducing landscape interventions in public spaces that strengthen children’s relationship with nature and contribute to a healthier, more playful and inclusive urban environment.

Through these steps, the Living Lab aims to embed children’s voices into urban decision-making and demonstrate how democratic landscape transformation can improve community well-being. The work in Vác serves as a replicable case study showing how cities can meaningfully involve young people in shaping their surroundings and building a more livable future.

== Location of the Budapest-Vác Living Lab ==
{{#display_map: 47.783309317537885,19.134352848432243~Vác OLA Living Lab; 47.480636467815565,19.038719679791622~MATE Faculty for Landscape Architecture
}}

== OLA Workshop June 2025 ==
The OLA Community traveled to Vác in Hungary from '''June 13 - 22, 2025'''. In total, 45 participants from all project partners attended in the roles of student participants, group supervisors and coordinators.
The workshop build very well on the previous activities of the Living Lab with a clear thematic focus on the child-friendly approach and a spatial focus on the Törökhegy Forest.
This small forest has been identified as a potential development area for nature play and nature experience. The forest was planted in the 1950's as a shelter for emissions of the local cement factory, together with a few other forest patches of similar size all around the eastern periphery of Vác. Today, the area is rather unused and there is little to no management of its vegetation.

The workshop was a great opportunity for re-discovering the potential of this natural area for an evolving neighborhood and its community. The activities were well balanced between discovery, analysis, empathizing, prototyping, engagement and visioning. The event was done in parallel to the [https://forum.ln-institute.org/landscape-forum-2025-budapest-and-danube-bend-2/ annual landscape forum] and created interesting synergies. An [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/ola-multiplier-event-budapest OLA multiplier event] was hosted together.

=== Working group results ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44563_download&client_id=hfwu Team 1 - Green Space Integration: Nourishing dreams under the trees]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44564_download&client_id=hfwu Team 2 - Forest Management: The guardians of the forest]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44565_download&client_id=hfwu Team 3 - Building belonging through play]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44566_download&client_id=hfwu Team 4 - Towards a universally accessible urban forest]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44567_download&client_id=hfwu Team 5 - Turning the forest into a nature-experience space]

=== Impressions from the OLA Intensive Programme in Vác ===
''Photos by Ellen Fetzer and Eunice Maina''

<gallery widths="250" heights="180">
File:OLA BIP VAC 1.JPG|Urban landscape diving into the forest
File:OLA BIP VAC 2.JPG|We are approaching the forest
File:OLA BIP VAC 3.JPG|Nature frames method (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 4.JPG|Nature frames method (2)
File:OLA BIP VAC 5.JPG|Findings pathways
File:OLA BIP VAC 6.JPG|Learning from the Vac Living Lab findings (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 7.JPG|Learning from the Vac Living Lab findings (2)
File:OLA BIP VAC 8.JPG|Mapping future forest pathways (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 9.JPG|Mapping future forest pathways (2)
File:OLA BIP VAC 10..JPG|Mapping future forest pathways (3)
File:OLA BIP VAC 11..JPG|Children as co-scientists (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 12..JPG|Children as co-scientists (2)
File:OLA BIP VAC 13.JPG|Transforming the forest (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 14.JPG|Transforming the forest (2)
File:OLA BIP VAC 15.JPG|Announcing our community event (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 17.JPG|Transfer of Vac learnings to the forum (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 18.JPG|Transfer of Vac learnings to the forum (2)
File:OLA BIP VAC 19.JPG|Building the forest play landscape (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 20.JPG|Building the forest play landscape (2)
File:OLA BIP VAC 21.JPG|Building the forest play landscape (3)
File:Forest Festival 3.jpg|Building the forest play landscape (4)
File:Forest Festival 2.jpg|Building the forest play landscape (5)
File:Forest Festival 1.jpg|Magic light show in the forest
File:OLA BIP VAC 22.JPG|Final presentation in Budapest (1)
File:OLA BIP VAC 23.JPG|Final presentation in Budapest (2)
</gallery>

== Landscape Forum and Multiplier Event ==

The last multiplier event of the OLA project took place at the campus of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) in Budapest, Hungary, on '''June 18, 2025.'''
During the event, we will presented the outcomes of the OLA ERASMUS+ Project: Democratic Landscape Transformation: Towards an Open Landscape Academy. We shared and discussed the latest version of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision Charta for Democratic Landscape Transformation], we introduced our open courses on democratic landscape transformation and the OLA website, an international platform for communities and professionals to share experiences. We also presented the living labs with their stories and the specific methods they have developed.

Participants were able to explore the OLA Charta – a collection of principles to guide democratic, community-based landscape planning, to learn from real-world examples – inspiring stories and key takeaways from OLA’s living labs, tocConnect with a professional community and meet practitioners who believe in democratic landscape transformation, to discover new ideas and see how the OLA approach can apply to your own urban or rural projects. Finally, new connections where formed, helping to start something together, join idea exchanges and explore opportunities for future collaboration

The multiplier event was addressed to landscape architects, urbanists, architects and spatial planners, both professional and academic, professionals working in participatory and community-based design, civil society organizations, researchers, and university students. We invited anyone who believes in the power of community involvement and is looking for new methods.

=== Impressions from the OLA Multiplier Event ===
''all Photos by Gyula Csernok | Courtesy of KultúrAktív Association''

<gallery widths="250" heights="180">
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618.JPG|Briefing the table moderators
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-5.JPG|Welcoming the participants
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-7.JPG|OLA postcards for sharing
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-10.JPG|The events hall at the MATE campus is ideal
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-27.JPG|Welcoming the participants
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-39.JPG|Anna and Istvan opening the event
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-53.JPG|Playing 'Bingo' as an icebreaker
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-62.JPG|Sharing our publication
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-84.JPG|Exploring the OLA Charta
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-91.JPG|Anna leads the reflection process
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-92.JPG|Participants study the Charta for themselves first
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-108.JPG|Then exchange...
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-120.JPG|...with people on their tables
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-143.JPG|...and leave valuable comments on the Charta
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-147.JPG|Living Lab teams present the stories and methods from the OLA labs
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-168.JPG|People connect to the community and the project.
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-198.JPG|We harvest the findings...
File:Multiplikátor esmény 20250618-206.JPG|...to develop OLA further.
</gallery>

=== Landscape Forum Working Group Presentations ===
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44558_download&client_id=hfwu Working Group 1: Building resilient urban peripheries]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44559_download&client_id=hfwu Working Group 2: Foodscapes for Vác]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44560_download&client_id=hfwu Working Group 3: Towards a Living Landscape Biography]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44561_download&client_id=hfwu Working Group 4: Mobility Landscapes Vác]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_44562_download&client_id=hfwu Working Group 5: Landscape Democracy]

== Publications and Further Resources ==
*Tóth, E., Szilágyi-Nagy, A., Földi, Z., & Valánszki, I. (2025). Reconnecting Children with Nature in Urban Space. 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, 76, 16-23. https://doi.org/10.36249/4d.76.6427
*Tóth, E., Szilágyi-Nagy (2925): Naturerfahrungen von Kindern in urbanen Räumen fördern, [https://bwsyncandshare.kit.edu/s/XGS42i6JqN4AkX4 download poster] (Conference contribution)

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:59:01Z

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The '''Solidarity Landscape''' living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''

The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''

The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''

Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]

[[File:Timeline Villaggio Solidale.png|thumb|Process model of the Villaggip Solidale Living Lab|800px|none]]

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|2000px]]

Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:58:44Z

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[[File:Key visual villaggio.jpg|thumb|right|400px]]
The '''Solidarity Landscape''' living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''

The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''

The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''

Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]

[[File:Timeline Villaggio Solidale.png|thumb|Process model of the Villaggip Solidale Living Lab|800px|left]]

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|2000px]]

Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:58:07Z

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Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:58:01Z

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[[File:Key visual villaggio.jpg|thumb|right|600px]]
The '''Solidarity Landscape''' living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''

The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''

The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''

Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]

[[File:Timeline Villaggio Solidale.png|thumb|Process model of the Villaggip Solidale Living Lab|800px|left]]

File:Key visual villaggio.jpg

2025-12-19T12:57:24Z

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Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:48:40Z

Efetzer:

The '''Solidarity Landscape''' living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''

The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''

The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''

Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]

[[File:Timeline Villaggio Solidale.png|thumb|Process model of the Villaggip Solidale Living Lab|800px|left]]

Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:48:31Z

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Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:48:10Z

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The '''Solidarity Landscape''' living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''

The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''

The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''

Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]
[File:Timeline Villaggio Solidale.png|thumb|Process model of the Villaggip Solidale Living Lab|800px]

Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:47:34Z

Efetzer:

The '''Solidarity Landscape''' living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''

The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''

The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''

Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]
[[File:Https://ledwiki.hfwu.de/index.php?title=File:Timeline Villaggio Solidale.png|thumb]]

Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:47:19Z

Efetzer:

The '''Solidarity Landscape''' living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''

The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''

The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''

Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]

https://ledwiki.hfwu.de/index.php?title=File:Timeline_Villaggio_Solidale.png

File:Timeline Villaggio Solidale.png

2025-12-19T12:46:37Z

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Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:43:56Z

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Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:43:39Z

Efetzer:

The '''Solidarity Landscape''' living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''
The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''
The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''
Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]

Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:43:23Z

Efetzer:

The "Solidarity Landscape" living laboratory was born in the Province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy's Lombardy region.

The living lab has been supported and further developed by the [[OLA_Project_Team#USA:_University_of_Maryland_(university_partner)_and_affiliatons|OLA team from the University of Maryland, US]].

'''The Region'''
The Valley of the Po River, located between the cities of Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan, serves as a prime example of a landscape that is seeking to adapt to climate and economic changes through solidarity-informed agroecology practices that benefit people, the landscape, and society.

This expanse of fertile land is known as the breadbasket of Italy. It has been shaped by humans over the millennia, and combines agricultural land, industrial settlements, and cities. However, this area now faces unprecedented challenges.

'''The Local Landscape'''
The Solidarity Landscape Living Lab is a partnership between the University of Maryland with a charitable co-housing community in Lurano, Italy, called Villaggio Solidale, and its sister site, Corte dei Massari, ten kilometers away in the village of Castel Cerreto. These communities offer housing, educational, and social services to children in foster care, adults with disabilities, young adults, and single-parent families.

'''The Living Lab'''
Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]

Romagna Living Lab

2025-12-19T12:40:40Z

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== Overview ==
The Romagna Living Lab in Ravenna served as the first OLA workshop site, hosted by the University of Bologna (Ravenna seat) and Fondazione Flaminia from July 25–31, 2023. The workshop involved 45 international participants from the OLA universities and NGOs across Europe and the US. The theme, “Against all odds – Defying future through participatory design”, guided participants in exploring Ravenna’s diverse and layered landscape, including industrial ports, bird sanctuaries, flood-prone areas, and cultural heritage sites like the mosaics of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo.

'''Romagna Living Lab Team:''' [http://OLA_Project_Team#Italy:_Alma_Mater_Studiorum_University_of_Bologna_(university_partner)_and_Fondazione_Flaminia_(NGO_partner) Find out more about the people behind]

Workshop activities included collaborative fieldwork, community engagement, team-building, urban explorations, and prototyping. Mixed teams developed landscape democracy concepts, such as:

*Mortar between the tiles: a regional landscape park connecting city and coast.
*Lucidarsena: a light festival to engage the community in redeveloping the Darsena port area.
*AdattAzione: a community-based flood- and drought-resilient Ravenna.
*Ravenna Links: a methodical approach to co-create landscape knowledge with local stakeholders.
*Poweract: mainstreaming participatory innovation via social entrepreneurship.

Follow-ups and multiplier events further consolidated the living labs' impact. On November 25, 2023, “Fare città insieme” engaged local planners, NGOs, and professional associations in participatory activities. In May 2025, “Patrimonio Pubblico in Trasformazione” in Bologna involved 165 participants in co-reflecting on public asset transformation, integrating the OLA Charta in practice.

The Living Lab later focused on Renewable Energy Communities (CER/REC). Two complementary formats were developed:

*An online Living Lab, facilitating dialogue among local administrations, cooperatives, and associations to exchange experiences on CER development.
*An on-site Living Lab in Cento, supporting participatory deliberation on legal forms, governance, and democratic decision-making for the emerging energy community.

The Romagna Living Lab exemplified how participatory design, community engagement, and transdisciplinary collaboration can foster both local sustainability and democratic landscape transformation, while providing transferable methods for other Living Labs.

== First OLA Workshop in Ravenna: Against all odds - Defying future through participatory design ==
*Kick-off for the Romagna Living Lab
*Workshop hosts: University of Bologna (Ravenna Seat) and Fondazione Flaminia in Ravenna
* Workshop dates July 25 – 31, 2023

'''Impressions from the first OLA workshop in Ravenna, July 2023:'''
<gallery widths="250" heights="180">
File:Ravenna darsena landscape.JPG|The Darsena canal landscape is open for urban regeneration
File:Harbour landscape 1.JPG|Ravenna harbour and bird sanctuaries are interlinked
File:Mosacis.JPG|Invaluable cultural heritage: the mosaics of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
File:Group bikes.jpg|Exploring a multilayered landscape
File:Team builing ravenna.JPG|Team building in Ravenna's public park
File:Community interaction.JPG|Collaborative analysis with the local community
File:Urban safari ravenna.JPG|Exploring the urban landscape
File:Seaturtles.jpg|We discovered a hospital for sea turtles in a former fish auction hall
File:Karmelitian monestary.jpg|After our conversation with the nuns of Monastero Santo Stefano Delle Monache Carmelitane
File:Team building ravenna 2.JPG|Defining starting points
File:Prototyping ravenna.JPG|Prototyping as a participatory process
File:Ngo visits.JPG|Visits from NGO partners
File:Team work ravenna.JPG|Team work using multiple and creative methods
File:First visions ravenna.JPG|First visions based on the nominal group technique process
File:Final presentation.JPG|Impressions from our final presentation
</gallery>

===Context===
Ravenna, a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, impresses not only by its rich and unique history. It is a landscape full of inspiring contrasts. The industrial port with its global flows of goods finds itself next to precious bird sanctuaries. A long and sandy beach serves the recreation needs of the masses. In parallel, there is a lot of distinguished cultural heritage tourism. The delta landscape of the wide basin of the river Po has been managed and drained by humans over millennia. And yet, flood has become an increasingly threatening issue, as the most recent inundations from May 2023 have shown. Hotels and tourist accommodations exist in abundance, but except for the main holiday season, they are often vacant. At the same time, many social groups have a hard time finding a home they can afford.

Against this background, the first international summer school of the OLA ERASMUS consortium took place from July 25 – 31, 2023, hosted by the University of Bologna (at its Ravenna seat) and the Flaminia Foundation. This NGO focusses on transferring scientific knowledge from the University of Bologna to the Romagna province. The international participants came from lead partner Nürtingen-Geislingen University as well as from Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences in Germany, the Agricultural University of Athens in Greece, the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Hungary and the University of Maryland in the US. The project consortium further includes the following NGO partners that have a lot of competence in participatory approaches: KulturAktiv from Hungary, Commonspace from Greece and the LE:NOTRE Institute from the Netherlands. Altogether, 45 participants attended over the nine workshop days.

The workshop was working under the theme: '''Against all odds - Defying future through participatory design.'''

=== Location of the Romagna Living Lab in Ravenna ===
{{#display_map: 44.42053763033639,12.209210284301738~Start of the Ravenna Canal; 44.480742999351136,12.273176303027604~Technopole - CIFLA
}}

=== Workshop goals and outcomes ===
The goal of the workshop was to identify and articulate landscape democracy challenges in the Ravenna territory by field work and interaction with the local community. Mixed teams were formed and they all developed an individual approach to the task.

During the workshop week, the following concepts have been generated:
* The group '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42268_download&client_id=hfwu Mortar between the tiles]''' declared the area along the canal as a regional landscape park ranging from the city to the coast. This idea was complemented by the design of a participatory model of how this park could be achieved
* '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42265_download&client_id=hfwu Lucidarsena]''' plays with the words ‘lucidar’ (giving light) and the toponyme ‘Darsena’ given to the old port area. The concept includes the development of a light festival as an attractive way of including local community in the redevelopment of Darsena.
* '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42269_download&client_id=hfwu AdattAzione]''' formulated the vision of a community-based flood and drought resilient and adaptive Ravenna region.
* '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42267_download&client_id=hfwu Ravenna Links]''' focused on identifying a good process and methodical approach towards building landscape knowledge, problem identification and ideation collaboratively with the local community.
* '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42266_download&client_id=hfwu Poweract]''' proposed mainstreaming the methodology of participatory community innovation through social entrepreneurship. The team exemplified the approach on the example of a container-based interim use. Please also listen to [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42264_download&client_id=hfwu their audio presentation]

'''Collaborative reflection''': please visit our [https://padlet.com/druggeri1/ola-2023-ravenna-summer-intensive-reflections-k3eoij551vuhdtae Ravenna Padlet]

=== Synthesis of concepts and transferable ideas ===
<gallery widths="200" heights="300">
File:A3 FOR PRINT AdattAzione.jpg|Team AdattAzione
File:A3 FOR PRINT La Malta Tra Le Tessere.jpg|Team 'Mortar between the tiles'''
File:A3 FOR PRINT LuciDarsena.jpg|Team LuciDarsena
File:A3 FOR PRINT RavennasLinks.jpg|Team Ravenna's Links
File:A3 FOR PRINT PowerAct.jpg|Team Power Act
</gallery>

=== Workshop Teams ===

<gallery widths="400" heights="250">
File:Team power act.JPG|'''Team Poweract:''' Tímea Erdei (MATE, HU), Arnisa Piranej and Caroline de Vries (HfWU, DE), Arati Uttur (LNI), Maia Kessler (Uni Maryland, US), Aniseh Saber (UniBo,IT), Ruba Al Hamzi (HfWU, DE)
File:Team mortar between the tiles.JPG|'''Team 'Mortar between the tiles''': Shashank Yadav (HfWU, DE), Eve Josar (Uni Maryland, US), Shamim Rokhsari (HfWU, DE), Ansam Bzour (MATE, HU), Eirini (Agr. Uni Athens, GR)
File:Team lucidarsena.JPG| '''Team Lucidarsena''': Javiera Diaz-Ortiz (Uni Maryland, US), Tayana Passos (MATE; HU), Konstantina Panagiota (Agr. Uni Athens, GR), Ernesto Velasquez (HfWU, DE), Irene Stathopoulou (Commonspace, GR), Mahan Esmaeili Zavieh (HfWU, DE), Kristin Faurest (LNI, NL)
File:Team flood resilience.JPG|'''Team AdattAzione''': Jeroen de Vries (LNI, NL), Auran Zaman (Uni Maryland, US), Lilla Kammermann (KulturAktiv, HU), Daisy Joval and Hüseyin Erten (HfWU, DE); Rahaf Yousef (MATE, HU), Stella Tsopelac(Agr. Uni Athens, GR)
File:Team community participation.JPG|'''Team Ravenna Links''': Anastasia Christiaki (Commonspace, GR), Andrea Cavina (UniBo, IT), Maria-Thiresia Vathi and Eirini (Agr. Uni Athens, GR), Roshanak Gharavi Manjili and Armita Nik Ghorban, (HfWU, DE), Anna Borkó (MATE, HU), Mary Christensen (Uni Maryland, US), Zsófia Földi (MATE, HU)
</gallery>

'''Tutors and staff not on the team pictures:'''
* '''Luigi Bartolomei''' (overall coordination), University of Bologna, Italy
* '''Michael Venturelli''' (organisation & coordination), University of Bologna, Italy
* '''Ernesto Antonini,''' University of Bologna, Italy
* '''Lia Marchi''', University of Bologna, Italy
* '''Deni Ruggeri,''' University of Maryland, US
* '''David Myers,''' University of Maryland, US
* '''Ellen Fetzer''', Nürtingen-Geislingen University, DE (OLA project coordinator)
* '''Andrea Conti,''' LE:NOTRE Institute
* '''Angeliki Paraskevopoulou,''' Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

[[File:Ravenna group photo.JPG|thumb|none|800px|OLA Workshop team at the kick-off at Technopole]]

== Follow-ups and Multiplier Events ==
The summer workshop contributed to an initial exploration of participatory approaches to territorial transformation in Ravenna.

=== November 25, 2023: “Fare città insieme” ===

The OLA team met again in Ravenna on November 25, 2023, during the dissemination event titled “Fare città insieme”, which involved local planners, designers, NGO representatives and professional associations. The event provided a space for discussion on participatory approaches to urban and territorial transformation, building on the outcomes of the previous workshop.

The dissemination event also functioned as a practical exercise in the use of democratic participation techniques. Participants were directly involved in a guided participatory activity based on the “Watch Your Values” method, later formalised as one of the project’s method cards, to collectively reflect on values, priorities and approaches to territorial transformation.

*[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_43349_download&client_id=hfwu Download synthesis of reflections resulting from the multiplier event] (in Italian)

'''Some impressions from the first multiplier event in Ravenna, November 2024:'''

<gallery widths="300" heights="200">
File:Ravenna Multiplier 1.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 2.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 3.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 4.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 5.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 6.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 7.JPG
</gallery>

=== May 15 - 16, 2025: Patrimonio Pubblico in Trasformazione ===

In May 2025, a second multiplier event titled “Patrimonio Pubblico in Trasformazione” was held in Bologna. The event brought together about 165 participants from different European contexts, including public administrations, professionals, researchers and civil society actors, to discuss participatory approaches to the reuse and transformation of public assets. Representatives from the Municipality of Bologna, the Metropolitan City and the Emilia-Romagna Region participated in the discussions, which were characterised by a high level of engagement and interaction among participants.

The second multiplier event played a key role in the dissemination of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta]. During Patrimonio Pubblico in Trasformazione, the OLA Charta was disseminated through printed copies included in the event materials and used as a basis for collective reflection, with participants actively contributing to the identification and mapping of values relevant to public asset transformation processes.

'''Some impressions from the 2nd multiplier event in Bologna, May 2025'''

<gallery widths="300" heights="200">
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (1).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (2).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (3).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (4).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (5).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (6).JPG
</gallery>

== Renewable Energy Community Living Labs ==

In the following phase of the project, the focus of the Living Lab evolved in response to emerging regional opportunities and policy frameworks. While initial discussions included themes such as soft mobility and cycling infrastructures, subsequent project activities shifted towards Renewable Energy Communities (CER/REC), following the launch of a regional call that was considered more closely aligned with the project’s interest in democratic landscape transformation.

Two complementary Living Lab formats were developed.
An online Living Lab was established as an informal space for dialogue among local administrations, cooperatives, associations and other stakeholders involved in the regional CER call. The meetings primarily functioned as a space for mutual exchange, peer comparison and reflection on ongoing difficulties and uncertainties, rather than as a technical or legal support service, as most participants were already assisted by their own consultants.
In parallel, an on-site Living Lab was developed in Cento following the initiative of a small community of Augustinian nuns. The Living Lab provided facilitation support for participatory discussion processes, focusing in particular on enabling collective reflection and decision-making around the legal form and governance structure of the Renewable Energy Community, and fostering democratic deliberation and shared governance practices within the emerging community.

'''Impressions from the Cento Living Lab:'''
<gallery widths="300" heights="200">
File:Cento OLA 1 (1).jpg
File:Cento OLA 1 (2).jpg
File:Cento OLA 1 (3).jpg
File:Cento OLA 1 (4).jpg
</gallery>

'''Location of the Cento Living Lab:'''
{{#display_map: 44.72772649430286,11.290308605419401~Cento Renewable Energy Community
}}

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|2000px]]

Romagna Living Lab

2025-12-19T12:40:33Z

Efetzer: /* Overview */

[[File:Community interaction.JPG||thumb|400px]]
== Overview ==
The Romagna Living Lab in Ravenna served as the first OLA workshop site, hosted by the University of Bologna (Ravenna seat) and Fondazione Flaminia from July 25–31, 2023. The workshop involved 45 international participants from the OLA universities and NGOs across Europe and the US. The theme, “Against all odds – Defying future through participatory design”, guided participants in exploring Ravenna’s diverse and layered landscape, including industrial ports, bird sanctuaries, flood-prone areas, and cultural heritage sites like the mosaics of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo.

Romagna Living Lab Team: [http://OLA_Project_Team#Italy:_Alma_Mater_Studiorum_University_of_Bologna_(university_partner)_and_Fondazione_Flaminia_(NGO_partner) Find out more about the people behind]

Workshop activities included collaborative fieldwork, community engagement, team-building, urban explorations, and prototyping. Mixed teams developed landscape democracy concepts, such as:

*Mortar between the tiles: a regional landscape park connecting city and coast.
*Lucidarsena: a light festival to engage the community in redeveloping the Darsena port area.
*AdattAzione: a community-based flood- and drought-resilient Ravenna.
*Ravenna Links: a methodical approach to co-create landscape knowledge with local stakeholders.
*Poweract: mainstreaming participatory innovation via social entrepreneurship.

Follow-ups and multiplier events further consolidated the living labs' impact. On November 25, 2023, “Fare città insieme” engaged local planners, NGOs, and professional associations in participatory activities. In May 2025, “Patrimonio Pubblico in Trasformazione” in Bologna involved 165 participants in co-reflecting on public asset transformation, integrating the OLA Charta in practice.

The Living Lab later focused on Renewable Energy Communities (CER/REC). Two complementary formats were developed:

*An online Living Lab, facilitating dialogue among local administrations, cooperatives, and associations to exchange experiences on CER development.
*An on-site Living Lab in Cento, supporting participatory deliberation on legal forms, governance, and democratic decision-making for the emerging energy community.

The Romagna Living Lab exemplified how participatory design, community engagement, and transdisciplinary collaboration can foster both local sustainability and democratic landscape transformation, while providing transferable methods for other Living Labs.

== First OLA Workshop in Ravenna: Against all odds - Defying future through participatory design ==
*Kick-off for the Romagna Living Lab
*Workshop hosts: University of Bologna (Ravenna Seat) and Fondazione Flaminia in Ravenna
* Workshop dates July 25 – 31, 2023

'''Impressions from the first OLA workshop in Ravenna, July 2023:'''
<gallery widths="250" heights="180">
File:Ravenna darsena landscape.JPG|The Darsena canal landscape is open for urban regeneration
File:Harbour landscape 1.JPG|Ravenna harbour and bird sanctuaries are interlinked
File:Mosacis.JPG|Invaluable cultural heritage: the mosaics of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
File:Group bikes.jpg|Exploring a multilayered landscape
File:Team builing ravenna.JPG|Team building in Ravenna's public park
File:Community interaction.JPG|Collaborative analysis with the local community
File:Urban safari ravenna.JPG|Exploring the urban landscape
File:Seaturtles.jpg|We discovered a hospital for sea turtles in a former fish auction hall
File:Karmelitian monestary.jpg|After our conversation with the nuns of Monastero Santo Stefano Delle Monache Carmelitane
File:Team building ravenna 2.JPG|Defining starting points
File:Prototyping ravenna.JPG|Prototyping as a participatory process
File:Ngo visits.JPG|Visits from NGO partners
File:Team work ravenna.JPG|Team work using multiple and creative methods
File:First visions ravenna.JPG|First visions based on the nominal group technique process
File:Final presentation.JPG|Impressions from our final presentation
</gallery>

===Context===
Ravenna, a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, impresses not only by its rich and unique history. It is a landscape full of inspiring contrasts. The industrial port with its global flows of goods finds itself next to precious bird sanctuaries. A long and sandy beach serves the recreation needs of the masses. In parallel, there is a lot of distinguished cultural heritage tourism. The delta landscape of the wide basin of the river Po has been managed and drained by humans over millennia. And yet, flood has become an increasingly threatening issue, as the most recent inundations from May 2023 have shown. Hotels and tourist accommodations exist in abundance, but except for the main holiday season, they are often vacant. At the same time, many social groups have a hard time finding a home they can afford.

Against this background, the first international summer school of the OLA ERASMUS consortium took place from July 25 – 31, 2023, hosted by the University of Bologna (at its Ravenna seat) and the Flaminia Foundation. This NGO focusses on transferring scientific knowledge from the University of Bologna to the Romagna province. The international participants came from lead partner Nürtingen-Geislingen University as well as from Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences in Germany, the Agricultural University of Athens in Greece, the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Hungary and the University of Maryland in the US. The project consortium further includes the following NGO partners that have a lot of competence in participatory approaches: KulturAktiv from Hungary, Commonspace from Greece and the LE:NOTRE Institute from the Netherlands. Altogether, 45 participants attended over the nine workshop days.

The workshop was working under the theme: '''Against all odds - Defying future through participatory design.'''

=== Location of the Romagna Living Lab in Ravenna ===
{{#display_map: 44.42053763033639,12.209210284301738~Start of the Ravenna Canal; 44.480742999351136,12.273176303027604~Technopole - CIFLA
}}

=== Workshop goals and outcomes ===
The goal of the workshop was to identify and articulate landscape democracy challenges in the Ravenna territory by field work and interaction with the local community. Mixed teams were formed and they all developed an individual approach to the task.

During the workshop week, the following concepts have been generated:
* The group '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42268_download&client_id=hfwu Mortar between the tiles]''' declared the area along the canal as a regional landscape park ranging from the city to the coast. This idea was complemented by the design of a participatory model of how this park could be achieved
* '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42265_download&client_id=hfwu Lucidarsena]''' plays with the words ‘lucidar’ (giving light) and the toponyme ‘Darsena’ given to the old port area. The concept includes the development of a light festival as an attractive way of including local community in the redevelopment of Darsena.
* '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42269_download&client_id=hfwu AdattAzione]''' formulated the vision of a community-based flood and drought resilient and adaptive Ravenna region.
* '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42267_download&client_id=hfwu Ravenna Links]''' focused on identifying a good process and methodical approach towards building landscape knowledge, problem identification and ideation collaboratively with the local community.
* '''[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42266_download&client_id=hfwu Poweract]''' proposed mainstreaming the methodology of participatory community innovation through social entrepreneurship. The team exemplified the approach on the example of a container-based interim use. Please also listen to [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_42264_download&client_id=hfwu their audio presentation]

'''Collaborative reflection''': please visit our [https://padlet.com/druggeri1/ola-2023-ravenna-summer-intensive-reflections-k3eoij551vuhdtae Ravenna Padlet]

=== Synthesis of concepts and transferable ideas ===
<gallery widths="200" heights="300">
File:A3 FOR PRINT AdattAzione.jpg|Team AdattAzione
File:A3 FOR PRINT La Malta Tra Le Tessere.jpg|Team 'Mortar between the tiles'''
File:A3 FOR PRINT LuciDarsena.jpg|Team LuciDarsena
File:A3 FOR PRINT RavennasLinks.jpg|Team Ravenna's Links
File:A3 FOR PRINT PowerAct.jpg|Team Power Act
</gallery>

=== Workshop Teams ===

<gallery widths="400" heights="250">
File:Team power act.JPG|'''Team Poweract:''' Tímea Erdei (MATE, HU), Arnisa Piranej and Caroline de Vries (HfWU, DE), Arati Uttur (LNI), Maia Kessler (Uni Maryland, US), Aniseh Saber (UniBo,IT), Ruba Al Hamzi (HfWU, DE)
File:Team mortar between the tiles.JPG|'''Team 'Mortar between the tiles''': Shashank Yadav (HfWU, DE), Eve Josar (Uni Maryland, US), Shamim Rokhsari (HfWU, DE), Ansam Bzour (MATE, HU), Eirini (Agr. Uni Athens, GR)
File:Team lucidarsena.JPG| '''Team Lucidarsena''': Javiera Diaz-Ortiz (Uni Maryland, US), Tayana Passos (MATE; HU), Konstantina Panagiota (Agr. Uni Athens, GR), Ernesto Velasquez (HfWU, DE), Irene Stathopoulou (Commonspace, GR), Mahan Esmaeili Zavieh (HfWU, DE), Kristin Faurest (LNI, NL)
File:Team flood resilience.JPG|'''Team AdattAzione''': Jeroen de Vries (LNI, NL), Auran Zaman (Uni Maryland, US), Lilla Kammermann (KulturAktiv, HU), Daisy Joval and Hüseyin Erten (HfWU, DE); Rahaf Yousef (MATE, HU), Stella Tsopelac(Agr. Uni Athens, GR)
File:Team community participation.JPG|'''Team Ravenna Links''': Anastasia Christiaki (Commonspace, GR), Andrea Cavina (UniBo, IT), Maria-Thiresia Vathi and Eirini (Agr. Uni Athens, GR), Roshanak Gharavi Manjili and Armita Nik Ghorban, (HfWU, DE), Anna Borkó (MATE, HU), Mary Christensen (Uni Maryland, US), Zsófia Földi (MATE, HU)
</gallery>

'''Tutors and staff not on the team pictures:'''
* '''Luigi Bartolomei''' (overall coordination), University of Bologna, Italy
* '''Michael Venturelli''' (organisation & coordination), University of Bologna, Italy
* '''Ernesto Antonini,''' University of Bologna, Italy
* '''Lia Marchi''', University of Bologna, Italy
* '''Deni Ruggeri,''' University of Maryland, US
* '''David Myers,''' University of Maryland, US
* '''Ellen Fetzer''', Nürtingen-Geislingen University, DE (OLA project coordinator)
* '''Andrea Conti,''' LE:NOTRE Institute
* '''Angeliki Paraskevopoulou,''' Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

[[File:Ravenna group photo.JPG|thumb|none|800px|OLA Workshop team at the kick-off at Technopole]]

== Follow-ups and Multiplier Events ==
The summer workshop contributed to an initial exploration of participatory approaches to territorial transformation in Ravenna.

=== November 25, 2023: “Fare città insieme” ===

The OLA team met again in Ravenna on November 25, 2023, during the dissemination event titled “Fare città insieme”, which involved local planners, designers, NGO representatives and professional associations. The event provided a space for discussion on participatory approaches to urban and territorial transformation, building on the outcomes of the previous workshop.

The dissemination event also functioned as a practical exercise in the use of democratic participation techniques. Participants were directly involved in a guided participatory activity based on the “Watch Your Values” method, later formalised as one of the project’s method cards, to collectively reflect on values, priorities and approaches to territorial transformation.

*[https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_43349_download&client_id=hfwu Download synthesis of reflections resulting from the multiplier event] (in Italian)

'''Some impressions from the first multiplier event in Ravenna, November 2024:'''

<gallery widths="300" heights="200">
File:Ravenna Multiplier 1.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 2.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 3.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 4.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 5.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 6.JPG
File:Ravenna Multiplier 7.JPG
</gallery>

=== May 15 - 16, 2025: Patrimonio Pubblico in Trasformazione ===

In May 2025, a second multiplier event titled “Patrimonio Pubblico in Trasformazione” was held in Bologna. The event brought together about 165 participants from different European contexts, including public administrations, professionals, researchers and civil society actors, to discuss participatory approaches to the reuse and transformation of public assets. Representatives from the Municipality of Bologna, the Metropolitan City and the Emilia-Romagna Region participated in the discussions, which were characterised by a high level of engagement and interaction among participants.

The second multiplier event played a key role in the dissemination of the [https://www.openlandscapeacademy.org/vision OLA Charta]. During Patrimonio Pubblico in Trasformazione, the OLA Charta was disseminated through printed copies included in the event materials and used as a basis for collective reflection, with participants actively contributing to the identification and mapping of values relevant to public asset transformation processes.

'''Some impressions from the 2nd multiplier event in Bologna, May 2025'''

<gallery widths="300" heights="200">
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (1).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (2).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (3).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (4).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (5).JPG
File:OLA Multiplier 2 Romagna (6).JPG
</gallery>

== Renewable Energy Community Living Labs ==

In the following phase of the project, the focus of the Living Lab evolved in response to emerging regional opportunities and policy frameworks. While initial discussions included themes such as soft mobility and cycling infrastructures, subsequent project activities shifted towards Renewable Energy Communities (CER/REC), following the launch of a regional call that was considered more closely aligned with the project’s interest in democratic landscape transformation.

Two complementary Living Lab formats were developed.
An online Living Lab was established as an informal space for dialogue among local administrations, cooperatives, associations and other stakeholders involved in the regional CER call. The meetings primarily functioned as a space for mutual exchange, peer comparison and reflection on ongoing difficulties and uncertainties, rather than as a technical or legal support service, as most participants were already assisted by their own consultants.
In parallel, an on-site Living Lab was developed in Cento following the initiative of a small community of Augustinian nuns. The Living Lab provided facilitation support for participatory discussion processes, focusing in particular on enabling collective reflection and decision-making around the legal form and governance structure of the Renewable Energy Community, and fostering democratic deliberation and shared governance practices within the emerging community.

'''Impressions from the Cento Living Lab:'''
<gallery widths="300" heights="200">
File:Cento OLA 1 (1).jpg
File:Cento OLA 1 (2).jpg
File:Cento OLA 1 (3).jpg
File:Cento OLA 1 (4).jpg
</gallery>

'''Location of the Cento Living Lab:'''
{{#display_map: 44.72772649430286,11.290308605419401~Cento Renewable Energy Community
}}

== ERASMUS+ Programme & Partners==
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

[[File:231213-OLA-Logoleiste-V2-transparent.png|2000px]]

Villaggio Solidale

2025-12-19T12:39:31Z

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Villaggio Solidale

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Here is the complete documentation of the Villaggio Solidale Living Lab Process: [https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/solidaritylandscape/where-it-began Villaggio Solidale]