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LED Online Seminar 2017 - Working Group 1

2017-06-12T08:16:58Z

Tonje.stordalen: /* Your Democratic Change Process */

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== Assignment 1 - Reading and Synthesizing Core Terminology ==

*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_1:_Reading_and_Synthesizing_Core_Terminology_(2017)|here]]
*Readings are accessible via the [[Resources_and_Literature_Landscape_and_Democracy|resources page]]

=== Step 1: Your Landscape Democracy Manifestoes ===

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File:LED Manifesto by mansura perveen.jpg|Mansura's manifesto
Image:Giya Elizabeth George.jpg|Giya's manifesto
Image:Lndscp_MANIFESTO.jpg|Giulia's manifesto
Image:Landscape_education_for_democracy.jpg|Golzardi's manifesto
Image:LED_2017_Saeid.S_Manifesto.jpg|Saeid's manifesto
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=== Step 2: Define your readings ===
*Please add your readings selection for the terminology exercise before '''April 12''':

'''A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain'''
* The European Landscape Convention (Giya Elizabeth George)
*
'''Landscape Concepts:'''
* Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (Giulia Chiussi)
*Bruns/Bartolomei, 2016 'Concepts of Landscape' (Saeid Saadat)

'''B: Concepts of Participation'''
*Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy - Fairness (Saeid Saadat)
*David, Harvey (2003): The Right to the City, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 939–941 (Giulia Chiussi)

'''C: Community and Identity'''
*Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy (Mansura Perveen)
*Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes (Mansura Perveen)
*Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure, Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4. (Giulia Chiussi)

'''D: Designing'''
*Reading selected: Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and pursuit of Sustainable Happiness (Giya Elizabeth George)
*Vall, N. (2013): Social engineering and participation in Anglo-Swedish housing 1945–1976: Ralph Erskine's vernacular plan, Planning Perspectives, 28(2), 223-245 (Giulia Chiussi)
*Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena on sustainable design and community involvement in Chile (Mansura Perveen)

'''E: Communicating a Vision'''
*Participant: Haniyeh Golzardi
*Reading selected: Storytelling example from the Scottish Islands
*Online decision making with loomio
*Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu

=== Steps 3 and 4: Concepts Selection and definition ===
* Each group member selects three relevant concepts derived from his/her readings and synthesize them/publish them on the wiki by '''April 30, 2017'''
* Group members reflect within their groups and define their chosen concepts into a shared definition to be posted on the wiki by '''May 10, 2017.'''
* Other group members will be able to comment on the definitions until '''May 20, 2017'''

'''Concepts and definitions'''

'''Giulia Chiussi:'''
* IMAGEABILITY (p.9 The image of the city (A), Kevin Lynch)
The property of an object to strike a chord of the observer.
It can be given by the physical image but it also can be a feeling perceived through all the senses.

* AFFORDANCE (p.232 Culture and changing landscape structures (C), Joan Iverson Nassauer)
The emotional involvement between an object and his user: the shape of the object suggests the way to approach with. It's a potential property of a meeting.

* COMMUNITY TRUST (Ralph Erskine's vernacular plan, Natasha Vall)
Responsibility and belonging to the place where people live. It arise when there is tenant partecipation for planning and for financial issues.

'''Haniyeh Golzardi:'''
*The most important step before landscape planning is to understand the process that formed the landscape and the pressure for changes on that.('Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu)
*Reading the landscape is not about the valuing it but it's about describing or characterising it and give the landscape a name.('Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu)
*There is an eye-catching contrast between the centre of the town and the edges (surrounding) areas.As if the centre is more important than the other rest of the areas in the town.(Stromness, Urban Design Framework)

'''Giya Elizabeth George:'''('European Landscape Convention' and 'Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness').
*Enabling Form : We as individuals and communities are emotionally and intellectually unprepared to take the complex and comprehensive actions necessary for sustainability. We need new forms enabling us to sense, understand and empathize with the multiple roles in our ecosystem.
*Resilient Form : To be sustainable, cities must be more resilient. They must repair natural systems that have been stressed to the point of dysfunction and create new forms of habitation.
*Impelling Form : The nature of problems have changed, and public attitudes have changed. As a result, our urge to compel must be largely replaced by a need to impel.

'''Mansura Perveen:'''
* '''Cinematic Landscape''' ''(Reading Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes)''
Since our lives are dictated in so many ways by the environment we live in, the particularities of a landscape often seem to mirror certain feelings, and thus evoke our emotion & imagination. The attributes of such cinematic landscapes are not only geographical, but also socioeconomic in nature.

* '''Ecological Democracy''' ''(Reading Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy)''
Ecological Democracy is a concept that advocates for an approach to designing our local environments, that involves direct participation (participatory democracy), that is guided by a comprehensive understanding of the organisms, habitats, and events of our surroundings (applied ecology); in order to ensure a more vigorous interactive landscape that can sustain an enduring & joyful urban life.
* ''''Design's power of synthesis''' ''(Reading Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena on sustainable design and community involvement in Chile)''
A good design has the capability to synthesize all the governing forces of a given constraint, however conflicting they may seem, and translate them into a form. The application of simple common-sense can often result into ingenious solutions to the most complex of problems.

'''Saeid Saadat:'''
*Fairness is fundamental to lasting democracy in an ecological democracy, citizens are responsible for obeying just laws and disobeying unjust ones. Above all conditions for a democratic society and design, equal access to information is critical for creating legitimate involvement and well-informed public.Thus, to have a dynamic society the condition and context should be set in way to have inclusive planning and design to not only give response to needs of every layer of society but also considering the sustainability of environment and landscape for next generation.
*Landscape is defined as interaction of human and non-human and the human perception of the resulting material phenomena like features and processes. In general perception of environment and landscape is different for each person in society and indeed it depends on experiences and context. So from the technical point of view if the experts of this field (ecologist, landscape designer/planner and so on) are the community who can understand the value of landscape and distinguished variety of types with their own worth they have major responsibility to spread their understanding in society. Hence, by increasing the knowledge and awareness of people regarding their surroundings and their environmental identity people will try more to maintain and enhance them. On the other hand the authorities and governments should provide the context of equal access to information and places for people to know how deal and act regarding the landscape and nature, though it is necessarily to have relevant laws for preserving the places and elements.
*Landscape is not the physical ambient but people's perception of their surroundings. This distinction between the human being who contemplates surroundings and the environment which is being contemplated is fundamental to modern time. The perception of landscape in each region and nation is specified for every single of citizens in that country and region, hence this perception can not be translated to the other languages for the other nations and inhabitants. Each person as a mankind can give a life and meaning to his/her surroundings. This meaning can be as particular as the person- product of person's mind. So we should think of landscape not as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as a process; of people continuously comparing memories of the past and perception's of the present to their aspiration for a future.

=== Step 5: Reflection ===
The image of the city has to be strong and well organized because it allows people to move easily within.
Then every city is necessarily dynamic because it’s composed by people who makes it alive by changing and living it.
The intersection between the framework and the movement is our landscape and it has to reveal the cultural background,
to satisfy people needs and to face with constant challenges between storytelling and give a chance to be a part of it.

Landscape is defined as interaction of human and non-human and the human perception of the resulting material phenomena like features and processes.
In general perception of environment and landscape is different for each person in society and indeed it depends on experiences and context.
So from the technical point of view, if the experts of this field (ecologist, landscape designer/planner and so on) are the community who can understand the value of landscape and distinguished variety of types with their own worth, they have major responsibility to spread their understanding in society.
So by increasing the knowledge and awareness of people regarding their surroundings and their environmental identity people will try more to maintain and enhance it.

Understanding the landscape, the processes that formed it and the pressure for change is an important step before landscape planning or design.
It is not about the valuing the landscape but it's about describing or characterising it and give the landscape a name.
Character means a district, recognizable and consistent pattern of element in the landscape that makes one landscape different from another rather than better or worse.

=== Step 6: Revised manifestoes ===
*please look again at your initial manifestoes and update them with any new aspects/prespectives you have taken up during this seminar

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Image:up_revise.jpg|Giulia's up manifesto
Image:LED 2017 Saeid S Update manifesto.jpg|Saeid's updated manifesto
Image:Giya Revised Manifesto.jpg|Giya's updated manifesto
Image:Landscape education for democracy updated.jpg|Haniyeh's updated manifesto
Image:updatedmanifesto5.jpg|xy's updated manifesto
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== Assignment 2 - Your Landscape Symbols ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_2:_Your_Landscape_Symbols_(2017)|here]]

=== Giulia Chiussi ===
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Image: photovoice_1.jpg|THE TRAIN this is a Giuseppe Vaccaro project. Vaccaro is the architect who built our Enineering and Architecture School Location and he conceived also this Democratic Space working with his team and people. Now it's still a place where people meet to take care of Everybody's Green. The Train is the name that people gave to this 'spine' Complex situated in the Barca District in Bologna. Via della Barca, Bologna. GEOlocation:44°29'42.9"N 11°17'06.0"E
Image:photovoice (2).jpg|SPIRAL SQUARE this is a little square that is behind the San Domenico Basilica. Many of italian's squares are in front of churches, the symbol of the Christian Power, this is behind. It's intimate and gives you a plaesant close feeling with other people: the Big Tree in the eye connects all. The spiral ivites you to think: it gives you the possibility to perceive this sense of peace by giving your space. Vicolo dell'Orto, Bologna. GEOlocation:44°29'22.7"N 11°20'40.7"E
Image:photovoice (3).jpg|SPRING GAME this is the Taraxacum Officinale and it' s a Spring Flower. Childs, adults and olds have fun with it by blowing away the petals. Parco Nicholas Green, Via della Certosa, Bologna. GEOlocation: 44°29'49.8"N 11°18'07.5"E
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===Haniyeh Golzardi ===
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Image:Haniyeh Golzardi-Photovoice1.jpg|Sebilj is the symbol of the City Sarajevo, Architecture, Historical, National Treasure.It is the common meeting point area in the city and the name sebilj means the building on the road where there is water.(Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzagovina)
Image:Haniyeh Golzardi-Photovoice 2.jpg| Tunnel of war in Sarajevo is named as Tunnel of Hope because of its function which saved the life of people during the Bosnian-Serbian war. It is a symbol of the connection between 2 part of the city in order to bring food to the city and to take peopl...
Image:Haniyeh Golzardi-Photovoice 3.jpg|Wilson's Promenade is the street which is a symbol of connection, nature and recreational activities. this is the street which connects two part of the city through nature and it has river beside it. people go usually there to walk or ride bicycles.(Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzagovina)
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=== Giya Elizabeth George ===
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Image:Madras War Cemetery.jpg|Madras War Cemetery is a World War memorial cemetery in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India, established in 1952 by the Imperial War Graves Commission, to pay tribute to the men and women who sacrificed their lives in World War II. The memorial does not contain any buried dead-bodies, but has plaques with the names of many British soldiers who died in both the World Wars, with the inscription ‘Their name liveth for evermore’. It symbolizes the sacrifice and noblest deeds of the soldiers along with the historical evidences of British rule in India. It is stylized as a lawn cemetery and is currently maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Government of India. Geo location: 13° 0′ 51.48″ N, 80° 11′ 39.84″ E.
Image:Shisha Gumbad.jpg|Shisha Gumbad (literal English translation: glass dome) is a tomb of the Lodhi Dynasty and is believed to have possibly been constructed in the late 15th century. There are four tombs in the Lodhi Gardens including the Shisha Gumbad. Initially, all the tombs were built independently and were not connected. In early 20th century, a park was developed which was inaugurated by Lady Willingdon bringing the four monuments into one garden. The garden is an important part of Indian history and is open for public access. Geo location: 28°35′37.3884″N 77°13′12.6192″E.
Image:The Basilica of Bom Jesus 1.jpg|The Basilica of Bom Jesus (Portuguese: Basílica do Bom Jesus) is located in Goa, India. The basilica holds the mortal remains of St. Francis Xavier. The church is located in Old Goa, which was the capital of Goa in the early days of Portuguese rules. It is considered to be one of the best examples of baroque architecture in India and is a landmark in the history of Christianity. The Basilica of Bom Jesus is almost 412 years old and is open to the public every day. Geo location: 15°30′3.14″N 73°54′41.44″E.
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=== Saeid Saadat ===
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Image:Symbol-Hafezie.JPG|Hafezie Garden; is one of the outstanding gardens of Shiraz. In my eyes, this garden is sending considerable messages, which are note worthy. This place is holding different aspects of Iranian dignity;such as historical,political,traditional and cultural aspects. First of all, this garden was promoted during the Pahlavi dynasty and the amazing monument was constructed in that era as well. Secondly, the memorial structure is symbol of Hafez and his manner of living, which was designed by French Architect André Godard. Moreover, the Garden also is following the discipline of Persian Gardens,which dating back to more than 2500 years ago, with its logical axis and mathematical distribution of elements on context. Apart from all of these factor I should bring up these days condition of the place, this interesting place with its pavilion and open corridor is one of the rarest places in Shiraz which calls people, from every level of society without considering the gender, position or age to come and chill in great atmosphere. The Garden and the Tomb is welcoming people for reading Hafez poetry, singing different poems of different poets, celebrating new year or celebrating the religious events. So, liberality and democratic condition of this garden in this small scale can be felt if you have experienced life condition of non-democratic society like Iran. 29°37'32.9"N 52°33'29.8"E
Image:Symbol-element in chamran.JPG|Chamran linear park, a place where people are spending time to have fun. This place was constructed along side a main boulevard(with same name). In this place different elements can be found which are representing combination of modern and classic arts. one of them is illustrated in this pic. A small stream which crossed a bowl and break it. the axis and the way of presenting are interesting. 29°39'10.5"N 52°30'03.5"E.
Image:Symbol-cypress.JPG|Cypress, an element for life which you can find it not only in nature but also on ancient carving, on wall of mosques, on Persian carpet and somehow in daily life of Iranian people. 31°07'21.0"N 53°16'47.9"E
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=== Mansura Perveen ===
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Image:17858161 10155151101633744 1378825411 n.jpg|Ruplal House,a 19th century palace of great heritage value, decaying in negligence. Ruplal House,a 19th century palace of great heritage value in old Dhaka Bangladesh.This Neo classical architecture has been take possession by local settler. Ripped of the signs of its past grace and grandeur. This building should have been preserved heritage of old architecture in old city as manifest of its flourish history.This picture is taken in the “ Dhaka art summit” festival.Geo location 23° 42′ 13.1″ N, 90° 24′ 49.1″ E

Image:17888581 10155150508758744 1451435159 n.jpg|Dhaka is the densely populated city where density is 45,000 people per square kilometers. Closely knit, shabby looking low rise structures forming such unruly roof-scapes-a very common picture in Dhaka. The cow on the roof bears evidence of acute shortage of land in the densely populated city. This picture is taken before the 2nd largest religious festival. Geo location 23°47'07.0"N 90°25'06.2"E

Image:17888226 10155151028208744 318561789 n.jpg|This photo is taken on the way of my village home :Modhukhali, Dhaka,Bnagladesh. Rich green paddy fields, spread across the horizon, is perhaps the most familiar picture of rural Bangladesh. And it is indeed remarkable how the limited arable lands of the country managed till now to supply such a large population with food. However, the greed of the real-estate developers, coupled with poor governance, is making it extremely difficult to save the agricultural lands from the grasp of the businessmen. Geo location 23°50'04.2"N 90°33'38.3"E

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== Assignment 3 - Role Play on Landscape Democracy "movers and shakers" ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_3:_Role_Play_on_Landscape_Democracy_"movers_and_shakers"_(2017)|here]]
* Christopher Alexander (The Oregon Experiment, Pattern Language) (Mansura Perveen)

== Assignment 4 - Your Landscape Democracy Challenge ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_4:_Your_Landscape_Democracy_Challenge_(2017)|here]]
*Each group member will specify a landscape democracy challenge in his/her environment

=== Landscape Democracy Challenge 1: Giulia Chiussi ===
<gallery caption="Le Reggiane" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:LeReggiane1.jpg|This place is a symbol because it rounds up two big problems: the lack of integration for immigrates and the disinterest for useless or deserted places.
Image:LeReggiane2.jpg|Without any kind of organisation supporting or helping them, immigrants started living in this unlivable and dangerous place that became a ghetto.
Image:LeReggiane3.jpg|This huge area is degradated and it's really near the city centre but nobody cared about its potential for a long time.
Image:LeReggiane4.jpg|People living here, street artists (it's the biggest street art lab in Europe), local and national administration for politics and economy of the area.
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'''Your references:'''
*http://www.officinemeccanichereggiane.it/
*https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officine_Meccaniche_Reggiane

=== Landscape Democracy Challenge 2 : Haniyeh Golzardi===
<gallery caption="Polluted River in Sarajevo " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Haniyeh Golzardi1.JPG|caption: The Miljacka is a rather small river, only 38 kilometres (24 mi) long with average discharge of 5.7 m³/s at the City of Sarajevo, and right tributary of the Bosna river. Hence the origin and the estuary, the Miljacka river flows from the east to the west.Due to Bosnian War water treatment was stopped and plant equipment looted preventing local government to deal with the issue as estimations to repair the wastewater plant run between 50 and 60 million euros.
Haniyeh Golzardi2.jpg|caption: Because of its poor discharge, the Miljacka is known for its peculiar smell and brown waters.The main collector that drains the fecal matter is parallel with the flow of Miljacka up to its mouth to the river Bosna. The sewer system is not connected to the main collector, causing leakage of fecal matter directly into the waters of Miljacka on several places.
Haniyeh Golzardi3.jpg|caption: General fact is that rivers are polluted because not even the very center of the city has entirely arranged discharge of waste waters into the collector. Moreover, another cause of pollution are sanitary waste waters (sewerage), disposal of trash in the vicinity of rivers, and the lack of sewerage network in the country and suburban settlements,“ stated the Institute.
Haniyeh Gozlardi4.jpg|caption: The actors in this situation would be mostly people who live in this area and especially those that have business as restaurants or hotels... However, the Government has the important role in this situation as well.
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'''References:'''
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miljacka
*https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-9403907-stock-footage-pollution-floating-on-the-river-in-sarajevo-bosnia-and-herzegovina.html
*http://www.sarajevotimes.com/?p=99595

=== Landscape Democracy Challenge 3 ===
<gallery caption="FELLING DOWN TREES" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:GIYA CHALLENGE 1.jpg|caption: Felling down of tree for new developments is a common scene in most of the cities in India. In the struggle for creating a perfect world, we often forget whether it is perfect for us or not.
Image:GIYA CHALLENGE 2.jpg|caption: BANGALORE - the city that has ever increasing migrants due to large number of IT companies and job oppurtunities, the demand for more housing and other facilities are ever increasing. These demands are satisfied by sacrificing the environment, especially the trees.
Image:GIYA CHALLENGE 3.jpg|caption: People protest against the governments decision to fell trees to built a flyover as they realized the need to protect the remaining green spaces.
Image:GIYA CHALLENGE 4.jpg|caption: Actors are the politicians, governing bodies and the people
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'''Your references:'''
*https://asiancorrespondent.com/2015/10/cutting-emissions-intensity-can-india-lead-the-world-on-climate-change/#ue23mYXvDu8SVyk8.97
*http://www.greenpeace.org/india/en/Multimedia/Photos/Sankey-road-protest-No-trees-No-future/Protest-against-tree-cutting-on-Sankey-road/
*http://www.mastylecare.org/news/bengaluru-citizens-form-human-chain-against-bbmps-move-to-cut-down-112-trees-for-a-flyover/

=== Landscape Democracy Challenge 4: Mansura Perveen ===
<gallery caption="Give a title to your challenge" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Wiki slide 1.jpg| Dhaka is the most densely populated city on earth with almost 45,000 inhabitants living per square km. It always amazed me how such a small amount of land could accommodate such a large population.It further astonished me to see how blatantly we often left that limited amount of land unused or under-utilized. The segregation of lands into individual plots, demarcated with boundary walls have resulted in smaller fragments of the usable area having the spatial qualities of a leftover space.I chose this issue because firstly, I thought the total amount of spaces we lose unused or under-utilized like this, if summed up, would surely seem too outrageous to leave as it is.Secondly, because an issue as complex as this one, with a variety of stakeholders, could only be effectively solved with participatory design. I believe this issue is crucial in restricting the forms of our city from becoming ‘enabling forms’ that could reciprocate by providing us with more democratic citizens.

Wiki slide 2.jpg|Perhaps, the scarcity of land area is precisely what prompts us in the first place to demarcate and secure our individual pieces of lands. However, the ultimate outcome of such a practice actually allows us to get far less value from these limited lands.The division of the land area into individual plots that are safeguarded with boundary walls eventually results in many problems: 1.The small amount of usable land area gets fragmented into even smaller pieces. 2.These spaces between our buildings and boundary walls can serve merely as setback spaces. With a boundary wall as a backdrop, they remain far from being welcoming. Thus these setback spaces are often left untended. 3.This consequently turns them into dirty, damp, dark & unhealthy leftover spaces. Eventually, it can even become a space where everyone throws their garbage into. 4.The back-alleys that are found in some neighbourhoods seem to face similar consequences.
Wiki slide 3.jpg|This segregation restricts the citizens from interacting with their neighbors, for the walls clearly create spaces that have introvert characteristics. Rather than opening up to one another, they limit the scope of interaction among neighbors. 1.So, most of the people actually have to spend their leisure times inside their homes. On holidays, when the streets are empty children sometimes play on the street. The rest of the times however, the chunk of space on the roof serve as their playground. The traffic occupy the streets, and the spilled over shops & vendors occupy the footpaths on regular working days. The roofs also make up for the lack of common areas in the neighborhood to some extent, by catering to other age groups as well. But there is only so much the spaces on roofs can make up for. 2.Subsequently, the inhabitants end up living their lives in their demarcated bubbles. This in turn further limits the scope of community stewardship, and altogether deteriorates the social lives of the inhabitants. Thus, we fail to avail so many of the environmental, social and cultural benefits or values that we could otherwise get from even these limited amount of land areas.
Actor.jpg|The community people are the key actors in this issue. The landowners perhaps have a greater role to play than the tenants. The real-estate industry along with the policy makers and the regulating authorities also play important roles as actors in this issue.
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'''Your references:'''
*...https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=14eYSjWmOc39l7-xhWcTj8ELixNU&hl=en&ll=23.765834000000012%2C90.363067&z=17
*...http://www.thedailystar.net/op-ed/politics/goodbye-master-planning-hello-bottom-urbanism-208771
*...http://www.thedailystar.net/drivers-economy/global-media-and-dhakas-urbanisation-1364854

=== Landscape Democracy Challenge 5: Saeid ===
<gallery caption="Religious landscape " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Saeid challenge1.jpg|caption: After 1979's revelation in Iran new government started ruling the society based on religion. In other words the system change to a Islamic government, which means politic and religion were combined and it was the beginning of abusing religion especially by extremists. In this case, everything related to country and society got color of religion (either intentionally or unintentionally) and comes under religion's umbrella. Yet, as far as landscape is concerned the conditions get worse, while landscape is where people can gather in group, present themselves and be free in wide scale, which are not pleasant for government. So according to the new policies they started polarizing the society by making differences between men and women rights, thus by limiting women they make them more and more isolated. which not only affected health of society but also affected the unity of country.Therefore having less role and responsibility to do in society makes you to be more away from city life, landscape and so on, let alone women should struggle with other barriers such as way of wearing, not being accepted by others and etc. So it is obvious as the landscape is not for every single member of society in equal harmony there is no democracy. And removing such a taboo to reach a fair balance is a huge challenge.
Image:Saeid challenge2.jpg| In name of religion and with different excuses arrogating people's property or public free lands or landscape is a usual procedure in this regime. As examples I can draw your attention to the many hectors of gardens which were taken from people in Shiraz due to owner beliefs or direction, and then cutting down the trees and drying the field for constructing roads or buildings. or demolishing mountains as landscape identity of my city for building construction. Or constructing mosques, military campus and etc. in arrogated places.
Image:Saeid challenge3.jpg| limiting the facilities in open spaces to a group of people or specific genders due to variety of social conservation. Also due to lack of management and lack of power to standing against the religious movement losing unique value of landscape and identity of landscape is so high. so these kind of movements will not only stop promoting the existed values, but will avoid any maintaining projects. All these conditions get worse in cities with label of "Holy (religious) cities" such as Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Rey and so on.
Image:Saeid challenge4.jpg| As it is illustrated the actress are religious people and politicians. In this condition another important point which is noteworthy is that the landscape/ecology experts do not have major role (or even any affect) in decision regarding the landscape, nature and environment.
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== Assignment 5 - Your Democratic Change Process ==
*You can read more details about this assignment [[Assignment_5:_Your_Democratic_Change_Process_(2017)|here]]
*After documenting and reflecting on your challenges you will continue jointly with one of these challenges and design a democratic change process

=== Your Democratic Change Process ===

<gallery caption="Rethinking plot compartmentalization " widths="600px" heights="300px" perrow="1">
Image:1 .powerworking.jpg|''In this current top bottom structured design, community people are most connected and affected, along with public health and some small commercial services.The second affected zone holder doesn't affect directly but on the contrary, the least affected zone has the ability to change current scenarios.''
Influence interest map.jpg|''influences interest map, low-interest- power is least important group and high interest-low influence is the potential supporter. the high power interest group is the key player .''
Image:CH_PRO.jpg|''Look at the various methods and tools available and think how they can be applied creatively. Think about the needs of different stakeholder groups - you may need a methodical mix to address them all. Illustrate graphically how these methods/tools might be applied in a short, medium and long-term perspective.''
File:4SL.jpg|''a scenario illustrating how these tools can be applied within a short, medium and long term perspective involving the groups you want to address, this should include a process timeline''
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=== Reflection ===

*Theory vs change model:

- Community anomie is the main reason for degrading landscapes in the community. The situation in Mohammadpur in Bangladesh is a clear example for this.

- Our ideas are built on rethinking about building setback spaces, this issue is crucial in restricting the forms of our city from becoming ‘enabling forms’.

- The current situation can be changed by converting all setback spaces into usable spaces with the support of stakeholders

- The foundations of our participatory processes includes citizens, government housing, ministry and policy makers, architects and engineer association and people in real estate business.

- To make people aware of the present situation and to encourage their participation various awareness programmes such as educational events, competitions, art work, exhibitions, workshops, round tables and games related to landscape for people living in the community has to be carried out.

- The process also involves activities for children because they can also be a part of this process as they have very creative ideas and opinion about their environment.

- This will help in developing a healthy backspaces in neighbourhood. Also people will be more engaged in landscape related activities which will encourage them to protect green spaces.

*Take home message:

- To develop a sustainable environment it is important to develop sustainable values in the citizens so that they can understand the need and meaning of sustainable landscape aspirations. For achieving this educating the citizens, considering their ideas, allowing them to share their thoughts and needs and finding solutions based on these are very important. In our democratic change process, the idea is to encourage the participation of people as much as possible and help them to choose a future with well maintained landscapes.

*Unresolved:
-

=== Your references ===
*https://www.ted.com/talks/alejandro_aravena_my_architectural_philosophy_bring_the_community_into_the_process/transcript?language=en#t-62583

*Hester, Randolph (1999): A Refrain with a View, UC Berkeley
*Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy, The MIT Press
*Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
*Ruggeri, Deni (2004): Crafting Westport, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley , CA (co-author)

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Tonje.stordalen:

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Partner Institutions

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= Project partner and grant coordinator =

== Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Ås, Norway ==

[https://www.nmbu.no/en/about-nmbu/faculties/samvit/departments/ilp Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning]

[[File:Deni.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Deni Ruggeri]]

Contact person: '''Prof. Deni Ruggeri'''

Dr. Deni Ruggeri is Associate Professor and Landscape Architecture Section Leader in the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway. His research focuses on social dimensions of landscape and urban design. He is particularly interested in the influence landscapes have on people’s place identity and attachment, and in developing new tools and processes for engaging communities in the design of places that are conducive to sustainable lifestyles, physical and mental well-being, ecological health, economic viability, identity, delight, and biophilia.

Deni Ruggeri’s education includes a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and graduate degrees in both Landscape Architecture and City Planning from Cornell University. He has practiced landscape architecture in California and Colorado, and has international experience in leading community design and visioning processes. Before joining NMBU, Deni has taught in the USA at the University of Oregon and Cornell University.

= Project partners =

== Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany ==

[[File:Ellen.JPG|mini|right|200px|Dr. Ellen Fetzer]]
[https://www.hfwu.de/elearning/ Competence Centre for University Didactics]

Contact person: '''Dr Ellen Fetzer'''

Ellen Fetzer holds a diploma and a doctoral degree in landscape planning from Kassel University, Germany. Since 2001 she has been working at the school for landscape architecture, environmental and urban planning in Nürtigen (Stuttgart area, Germany). She is primarly coordinating an international master degree in landscape architecture (IMLA). The second focus of her work is in the Centre for University Didactics as an e-learning coordinator. Ellen works a lot in the field of computer-supported collaborative learning and facilitates online seminars in international cooperations. She is vice-president of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.

== University of Kassel | Kassel, Germany ==
[[File:Diedrich.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Diedrich Bruns]]
School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, [http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb06/fachgebiete/landschaftsarchitektur-und-planung/landschaftsplanung-landnutzung/startseite.html Landscape Planning Group], Kassel, Germany

Contact person: '''Prof. Dr. Diedrich Bruns'''

Diedrich Bruns is Full Professor and chair of Landscape Planning and Land Use at Kassel University, Germany. He worked in Africa, Asia, North America and on several European projects and has many years of experience in landscape planning practice, teaching and research. Planning methods is his main area of expertise, with a focus on participatory methods, particularly with respect to inclusiveness and early public involvement in landscape decision making. Dr Bruns has published several peer reviewed journal papers, book chapters and books.

== University of Bologna | Bologna, Italy ==

[http://www.da.unibo.it/it/internazionalizzazione/the-department-of-architecture-2013-university-of-bologna Department of Architecture,]
[[File:Luigi.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Luigi Bartolomei]]

Contact person: '''Prof. Luigi Bartolomei'''

Luigi Bartolomei, Architectural Engineer, obtained his PhD in Design and Architectural Composition at the University of Bologna with a thesis regarding the Phenomenology of Sacred Space. With this body of reserarch he promoted an analysis of archetypal figures in relation to the contemporary landscape and church architecture. He has worked at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna since 2007 among various roles. Luigi Bartolomei began as a tutor in History of Architecture (AA.2007/08 and 08/09) and later as a contract professor teaching Design and Architectural Composition (AA. 2009/10) and Landscape and Infrastructure Design (AA. 2010/11, 2011/12). The later course resulted in superior work between him and his students and was selected among the best projects regarding infrastructures in Italy by UrbanPromo. He is responsible for the Agreement between the Department of Architecture and FTER-Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna and subsequent courses that have derived from this collaborative partnership. He is a collaborator of the “The Journal of Architecture” [Il Giornale dell’Architettura] since 2008, where he has found a place for his architectural critic to be fully expressed. More specifically, Bartolomei was the editor of an investigative report regarding the city of Bologna (January 2012), and on the architecture of churches in the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (December 2012). In 2009 he won, in collaboration with Prof. Giorgio Praderio, a research project PRIN – Research of Relevant National Interest on the preservation and valorization of the landscape in small towns. Bartolomei is also actively involved with the Commission for Sacred Art and Architecture of Bologna Diocese, since 2008. He is currently responsible for the Project of Census of all Catholic Churches in the territory of Bologna’s Archdiocese (which involves more than 690 buildings). Since 2014 he is the director of “IN_BO, Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura”, (IN_BO, Researches and projects on territory, towns and architecture), an open-access and peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna.

== Szent István University | Budapest, Hungary ==

[http://sziu.hu/ Szent István University]
[[File:Albert fekete.jpg|mini|right|200px|Albert Fekete, PhD]]

Contact person: '''Albert Fekete, PhD'''

Graduated Landscape Architect, Head of Department of Garden Art and Dean of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism Budapest, Szent István University. He is an active landscape designer with European design experiences, having since 2000 his own office (Lépték Terv Landscape Office) in Budapest/Hungary and since 2007 the AB PLAN Design Office in Romania. He is working in Germany, Holland and Spain as well, having more than 50 realized landscape and open space design projects. He is member of the stearing commitee of the Hungarian Association of Landscape Architects. Being leader of several research projects in the last 15 years, he has a rich international scientifical experience as well. He was awarded among other in more than 15 design competitions, and won several national and international awards, for instance the „Landscape Architect of the Year 2012” prize in Hungary, and the „Europa Nostra Prize” of the EU in 2014.

== LE:NOTRE Institute ==

[http://www.le-notre.org LE:NOTRE Institute]
an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands.

Contact person: '''M.Eng. Anna Szilágyi-Nagy'''

[[File:Anna.JPG|mini|right|200px|M. Eng. Anna Szilágyi- Nagy]]

Anna Szilágyi-Nagy is a Hungarian MSc landscape architect graduated at the HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen, Germany. As board member of the Le:Notre Institute is in charge of the development of the international certification system in the LED project.
In her diploma she focused on collaborative revitalization strategy of the Hosszúréti-creek, emphasizing the role of public involvement and environmental education in the suburb of Budapest. Later she helped to facilitate the community planning process of Normafa Közösen and was a tutor of online courses provided by HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen.
Currently she is working for the Town Hall of Törökbálint to continue to propel creek revitalization process in her community and to smoothen cooperation between private and public sector. She is vice-president of the kultúrAktív Association, an NGO boosting playful tools and methods to support active citizenship and participation in urban life among children, and coordinates the development processes of the live board game Urbanity and the international action based project #playhellocity. She is also a guest lecturer at the Szent István University focusing on storytelling in creekside landscape.

= Associate Faculty =

== University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources | Vienna, Austria ==

'''Eva Schwab, PhD'''
Eva Schwab currently is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Landscape Architecture (ILA) at the University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources in Vienna, Austria. She holds a diploma and PhD in Landscape Architecture from the same university. Before entering a career in research, she practiced as a landscape architect for several years.
Eva’s research focuses on socio-spatial urban research, the politics of public space production and socio-cultural aspects in open space use. She is particularly interested in the power positions of different actors in the production of urban space and processes of in- and exclusion. Over the past few years, Eva was engaged in a number of inter- and transdisciplinary research projects in Austria, Argentina and Colombia as well as at the EU-level.

== Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany ==

Representative of the [https://www.hfwu.de/hochschule/anlaufstellen/fakultaeten/flus School of Landscape Architecture, Environmental and Urban Design:]

'''Prof. Dr. Birgit Kröniger'''

[[File:Birgit Kroniger.JPG|mini|right|200px|Birgit Kröninger]]
Birgit Kröniger is Full Professor of design in landscape architecture at the HfWU Nürtingen since 2014. In 2000 she founded the design firm ver.de landschaftsarchitektur located in Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, together with two partners. Working interdisciplinary with a team consisting of up to ten landscape architects and students, Birgit and her partners have taken part succesfully in numerous design competitions for open spaces and designed and realized public urban spaces, courtyards and residential neighbourhoods which won several design awards. Birgit holds a diploma in landscape architecture and a doctoral degree from Technische Universität München. She worked for the landscape architect Peter Latz several years before she founded her own firm.

= Tutors =

[[File:Tonje_neu.JPG|mini|left|200px]]
'''M-LA Tonje Cecile Stordalen'''

''Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU)''

Tonje Cecilie Stordalen is a Ph.D. candidate of Landscape and Society at NMBU. The primary focus of her research is the democratization of everyday landscapes through community participation, and to develop an evaluative framework for assessing the performance of community-based processes. Tonje holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from NMBU.
She is passionate about participatory processes inspiring design and is mainly concerned with topics such as historical development, place identity and attachment, equality and right to landscape in a multicultural context.

[[File:Federica_neu.JPG|mini|left|200px]]
'''Federica Fuligini'''

Federica Fuligni is a master student in Architecture and Building Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy, and she is assisting Prof. Luigi Bartolomei in the LED project. Within the Erasmus+ program she studied at the Technical University in Munich and at the Wroclaw University of Technology.
Federica is engaged to architecture as a social problem and is currently developing her master thesis about how co-housing could support integration and guarantee dignity in disadvantaged situations.

= Former LED-project partners =

[[File:Kristin.JPG|mini|left|150px|Prof. Kristin Faurest]]
'''Kristin Faurest'''

Kristin Faurest is director of cultural institution at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. For 14 years she has managed her own design firm, Artemisia Landscape Design, specializing in gardens for small urban spaces and special needs populations. Her studies include time spent at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, London, and Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa. She was employed as associate professor of landscape architecture at Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary during her engagement in the LED-project.

[[File:Jacksonita3.jpg|mini|left|150px]]
'''Irene Jackson Gil

Irene is studying the International Master of Landscape Architecture in the HfWU where is student assistant for the LED program under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Fetzer. She did her bachelor degree in Architecture in the Unversidad Central de Venezuela. Currently she is writing her Master thesis, the topic is Non verbal communication in participatory design.

[[File:Mirsa GISHTI LED.jpg|mini|left|150px]]
'''Mirsa Gishti'''

Mirsa is since October 2015 a tutor of LED online course assisting Dr. Ellen Fetzer and participates at the same time at the ERASMUS+ Project ‘Social Entrepreneurship for Local Change’. She is keen on social dimensions of landscape and urban design and as well on developing appropriate means of including disadvantaged social groups.
She holds a previous Master Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania. Currently she is an IMLA Master student in the 4th semester at Nürtingen-Geislingen University in Germany and she is doing her internship at Faktorgruen in Freiburg (Germany) as landscape architect.

[[File:Sophie.JPG|mini|left|150px]]
'''Sophie Bittner'''

Sophie is a master student in landscape planning at the University of Kassel. She works at Prof. Diedrich Bruns chair landscape planning and land use as his student assistant for LED. In the year 2015 she studied one semester at the NMBU in Norway as an Erasmus student. At the moment she writes her master thesis, where participation as a democratic aspect is a great issue as well.

'''Ivana Lilikj'''

Ivana Lilikj is currently enrolled in the IMLA (International Master of Landscape Architecture) at Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany in the last semester, working on a Master Thesis: Green Infrastructure potentials for Ohrid region. Under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Fetzer she is student assistant in the LED online seminar. She holds a Bachelor diploma at the Faculty of Architecture and Society at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Ivana is interested in transboundary/international collaborations in the context of design/planning ranging from theory to practice.

= Partners map =
{{#display_map: 51.32562507899497,9.504040405263368~Kassel University~Landscape Planning Group; 48.60897699335809,9.35187622902049~HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen~School for Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design and Urban Planning; 59.66842037939986,10.766517519841727~NMBU~Centre for Landscape Democracy; 47.48009976883704,19.03879210350169~Svent Istvan University~Faculty for Landscape Architecture; 51.97546293564086,5.661449428880587~LE:NOTRE Institute; 44.49637918106034,11.353823393556013~Bologna University~Faculty for Architecture
}}

Partner Institutions

2017-03-07T12:16:20Z

Tonje.stordalen:

= Project partner and grant coordinator =

== Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Ås, Norway ==

[https://www.nmbu.no/en/about-nmbu/faculties/samvit/departments/ilp Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning]

[[File:Deni.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Deni Ruggeri]]

Contact person: '''Prof. Deni Ruggeri'''

Dr. Deni Ruggeri is Associate Professor and Landscape Architecture Section Leader in the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway. His research focuses on social dimensions of landscape and urban design. He is particularly interested in the influence landscapes have on people’s place identity and attachment, and in developing new tools and processes for engaging communities in the design of places that are conducive to sustainable lifestyles, physical and mental well-being, ecological health, economic viability, identity, delight, and biophilia.

Deni Ruggeri’s education includes a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and graduate degrees in both Landscape Architecture and City Planning from Cornell University. He has practiced landscape architecture in California and Colorado, and has international experience in leading community design and visioning processes. Before joining NMBU, Deni has taught in the USA at the University of Oregon and Cornell University.

= Project partners =

== Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany ==

[[File:Ellen.JPG|mini|right|200px|Dr. Ellen Fetzer]]
[https://www.hfwu.de/elearning/ Competence Centre for University Didactics]

Contact person: '''Dr Ellen Fetzer'''

Ellen Fetzer holds a diploma and a doctoral degree in landscape planning from Kassel University, Germany. Since 2001 she has been working at the school for landscape architecture, environmental and urban planning in Nürtigen (Stuttgart area, Germany). She is primarly coordinating an international master degree in landscape architecture (IMLA). The second focus of her work is in the Centre for University Didactics as an e-learning coordinator. Ellen works a lot in the field of computer-supported collaborative learning and facilitates online seminars in international cooperations. She is vice-president of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.

== University of Kassel | Kassel, Germany ==
[[File:Diedrich.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Diedrich Bruns]]
School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, [http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb06/fachgebiete/landschaftsarchitektur-und-planung/landschaftsplanung-landnutzung/startseite.html Landscape Planning Group], Kassel, Germany

Contact person: '''Prof. Dr. Diedrich Bruns'''

Diedrich Bruns is Full Professor and chair of Landscape Planning and Land Use at Kassel University, Germany. He worked in Africa, Asia, North America and on several European projects and has many years of experience in landscape planning practice, teaching and research. Planning methods is his main area of expertise, with a focus on participatory methods, particularly with respect to inclusiveness and early public involvement in landscape decision making. Dr Bruns has published several peer reviewed journal papers, book chapters and books.

== University of Bologna | Bologna, Italy ==

[http://www.da.unibo.it/it/internazionalizzazione/the-department-of-architecture-2013-university-of-bologna Department of Architecture,]
[[File:Luigi.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Luigi Bartolomei]]

Contact person: '''Prof. Luigi Bartolomei'''

Luigi Bartolomei, Architectural Engineer, obtained his PhD in Design and Architectural Composition at the University of Bologna with a thesis regarding the Phenomenology of Sacred Space. With this body of reserarch he promoted an analysis of archetypal figures in relation to the contemporary landscape and church architecture. He has worked at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna since 2007 among various roles. Luigi Bartolomei began as a tutor in History of Architecture (AA.2007/08 and 08/09) and later as a contract professor teaching Design and Architectural Composition (AA. 2009/10) and Landscape and Infrastructure Design (AA. 2010/11, 2011/12). The later course resulted in superior work between him and his students and was selected among the best projects regarding infrastructures in Italy by UrbanPromo. He is responsible for the Agreement between the Department of Architecture and FTER-Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna and subsequent courses that have derived from this collaborative partnership. He is a collaborator of the “The Journal of Architecture” [Il Giornale dell’Architettura] since 2008, where he has found a place for his architectural critic to be fully expressed. More specifically, Bartolomei was the editor of an investigative report regarding the city of Bologna (January 2012), and on the architecture of churches in the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (December 2012). In 2009 he won, in collaboration with Prof. Giorgio Praderio, a research project PRIN – Research of Relevant National Interest on the preservation and valorization of the landscape in small towns. Bartolomei is also actively involved with the Commission for Sacred Art and Architecture of Bologna Diocese, since 2008. He is currently responsible for the Project of Census of all Catholic Churches in the territory of Bologna’s Archdiocese (which involves more than 690 buildings). Since 2014 he is the director of “IN_BO, Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura”, (IN_BO, Researches and projects on territory, towns and architecture), an open-access and peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna.

== Szent István University | Budapest, Hungary ==

[http://sziu.hu/ Szent István University]
[[File:Albert fekete.jpg|mini|right|200px|Albert Fekete, PhD]]

Contact person: '''Albert Fekete, PhD'''

Graduated Landscape Architect, Head of Department of Garden Art and Dean of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism Budapest, Szent István University. He is an active landscape designer with European design experiences, having since 2000 his own office (Lépték Terv Landscape Office) in Budapest/Hungary and since 2007 the AB PLAN Design Office in Romania. He is working in Germany, Holland and Spain as well, having more than 50 realized landscape and open space design projects. He is member of the stearing commitee of the Hungarian Association of Landscape Architects. Being leader of several research projects in the last 15 years, he has a rich international scientifical experience as well. He was awarded among other in more than 15 design competitions, and won several national and international awards, for instance the „Landscape Architect of the Year 2012” prize in Hungary, and the „Europa Nostra Prize” of the EU in 2014.

== LE:NOTRE Institute ==

[http://www.le-notre.org LE:NOTRE Institute]
an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands.

Contact person: '''M.Eng. Anna Szilágyi-Nagy'''

[[File:Anna.JPG|mini|right|200px|M. Eng. Anna Szilágyi- Nagy]]

Anna Szilágyi-Nagy is a Hungarian MSc landscape architect graduated at the HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen, Germany. As board member of the Le:Notre Institute is in charge of the development of the international certification system in the LED project.
In her diploma she focused on collaborative revitalization strategy of the Hosszúréti-creek, emphasizing the role of public involvement and environmental education in the suburb of Budapest. Later she helped to facilitate the community planning process of Normafa Közösen and was a tutor of online courses provided by HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen.
Currently she is working for the Town Hall of Törökbálint to continue to propel creek revitalization process in her community and to smoothen cooperation between private and public sector. She is vice-president of the kultúrAktív Association, an NGO boosting playful tools and methods to support active citizenship and participation in urban life among children, and coordinates the development processes of the live board game Urbanity and the international action based project #playhellocity. She is also a guest lecturer at the Szent István University focusing on storytelling in creekside landscape.

= Associate Faculty =

== Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany ==

Representative of the [https://www.hfwu.de/hochschule/anlaufstellen/fakultaeten/flus School of Landscape Architecture, Environmental and Urban Design:]

'''Prof. Dr. Birgit Kröniger'''

[[File:Birgit Kroniger.JPG|mini|right|200px|Birgit Kröninger]]
Birgit Kröniger is Full Professor of design in landscape architecture at the HfWU Nürtingen since 2014. In 2000 she founded the design firm ver.de landschaftsarchitektur located in Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, together with two partners. Working interdisciplinary with a team consisting of up to ten landscape architects and students, Birgit and her partners have taken part succesfully in numerous design competitions for open spaces and designed and realized public urban spaces, courtyards and residential neighbourhoods which won several design awards. Birgit holds a diploma in landscape architecture and a doctoral degree from Technische Universität München. She worked for the landscape architect Peter Latz several years before she founded her own firm.

= Tutors =

[[File:Tonje_neu.JPG|mini|left|200px]]
'''M-LA Tonje Cecile Stordalen'''

''Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU)''

Tonje Cecilie Stordalen is a Ph.D. candidate of Landscape and Society at NMBU. The primary focus of her research is the democratization of everyday landscapes through community participation, and to develop an evaluative framework for assessing the performance of community-based processes. Tonje holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from NMBU.
She is passionate about participatory processes inspiring design and is mainly concerned with topics such as historical development, place identity and attachment, equality and right to landscape in a multicultural context.

[[File:Federica_neu.JPG|mini|left|200px]]
'''Federica Fuligini'''

Federica Fuligni is a master student in Architecture and Building Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy, and she is assisting Prof. Luigi Bartolomei in the LED project. Within the Erasmus+ program she studied at the Technical University in Munich and at the Wroclaw University of Technology.
Federica is engaged to architecture as a social problem and is currently developing her master thesis about how co-housing could support integration and guarantee dignity in disadvantaged situations.

= Former LED-project partners =

[[File:Kristin.JPG|mini|left|150px|Prof. Kristin Faurest]]
'''Kristin Faurest'''

Kristin Faurest is director of cultural institution at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. For 14 years she has managed her own design firm, Artemisia Landscape Design, specializing in gardens for small urban spaces and special needs populations. Her studies include time spent at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, London, and Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa. She was employed as associate professor of landscape architecture at Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary during her engagement in the LED-project.

[[File:Jacksonita3.jpg|mini|left|150px]]
'''Irene Jackson Gil

Irene is studying the International Master of Landscape Architecture in the HfWU where is student assistant for the LED program under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Fetzer. She did her bachelor degree in Architecture in the Unversidad Central de Venezuela. Currently she is writing her Master thesis, the topic is Non verbal communication in participatory design.

[[File:Mirsa GISHTI LED.jpg|mini|left|150px]]
'''Mirsa Gishti'''

Mirsa is since October 2015 a tutor of LED online course assisting Dr. Ellen Fetzer and participates at the same time at the ERASMUS+ Project ‘Social Entrepreneurship for Local Change’. She is keen on social dimensions of landscape and urban design and as well on developing appropriate means of including disadvantaged social groups.
She holds a previous Master Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania. Currently she is an IMLA Master student in the 4th semester at Nürtingen-Geislingen University in Germany and she is doing her internship at Faktorgruen in Freiburg (Germany) as landscape architect.

[[File:Sophie.JPG|mini|left|150px]]
'''Sophie Bittner'''

Sophie is a master student in landscape planning at the University of Kassel. She works at Prof. Diedrich Bruns chair landscape planning and land use as his student assistant for LED. In the year 2015 she studied one semester at the NMBU in Norway as an Erasmus student. At the moment she writes her master thesis, where participation as a democratic aspect is a great issue as well.

'''Ivana Lilikj'''

Ivana Lilikj is currently enrolled in the IMLA (International Master of Landscape Architecture) at Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany in the last semester, working on a Master Thesis: Green Infrastructure potentials for Ohrid region. Under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Fetzer she is student assistant in the LED online seminar. She holds a Bachelor diploma at the Faculty of Architecture and Society at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Ivana is interested in transboundary/international collaborations in the context of design/planning ranging from theory to practice.

= Partners map =
{{#display_map: 51.32562507899497,9.504040405263368~Kassel University~Landscape Planning Group; 48.60897699335809,9.35187622902049~HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen~School for Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design and Urban Planning; 59.66842037939986,10.766517519841727~NMBU~Centre for Landscape Democracy; 47.48009976883704,19.03879210350169~Svent Istvan University~Faculty for Landscape Architecture; 51.97546293564086,5.661449428880587~LE:NOTRE Institute; 44.49637918106034,11.353823393556013~Bologna University~Faculty for Architecture
}}

Partner Institutions

2017-03-07T12:15:29Z

Tonje.stordalen:

= Project partner and grant coordinator =

== Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Ås, Norway ==

[https://www.nmbu.no/en/about-nmbu/faculties/samvit/departments/ilp Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning]

[[File:Deni.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Deni Ruggeri]]

Contact person: '''Prof. Deni Ruggeri'''

Dr. Deni Ruggeri is Associate Professor and Landscape Architecture Section Leader in the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway. His research focuses on social dimensions of landscape and urban design. He is particularly interested in the influence landscapes have on people’s place identity and attachment, and in developing new tools and processes for engaging communities in the design of places that are conducive to sustainable lifestyles, physical and mental well-being, ecological health, economic viability, identity, delight, and biophilia.

Deni Ruggeri’s education includes a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and graduate degrees in both Landscape Architecture and City Planning from Cornell University. He has practiced landscape architecture in California and Colorado, and has international experience in leading community design and visioning processes. Before joining NMBU, Deni has taught in the USA at the University of Oregon and Cornell University.

= Project partners =

== Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany ==

[[File:Ellen.JPG|mini|right|200px|Dr. Ellen Fetzer]]
[https://www.hfwu.de/elearning/ Competence Centre for University Didactics]

Contact person: '''Dr Ellen Fetzer'''

Ellen Fetzer holds a diploma and a doctoral degree in landscape planning from Kassel University, Germany. Since 2001 she has been working at the school for landscape architecture, environmental and urban planning in Nürtigen (Stuttgart area, Germany). She is primarly coordinating an international master degree in landscape architecture (IMLA). The second focus of her work is in the Centre for University Didactics as an e-learning coordinator. Ellen works a lot in the field of computer-supported collaborative learning and facilitates online seminars in international cooperations. She is vice-president of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.

== University of Kassel | Kassel, Germany ==
[[File:Diedrich.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Diedrich Bruns]]
School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, [http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb06/fachgebiete/landschaftsarchitektur-und-planung/landschaftsplanung-landnutzung/startseite.html Landscape Planning Group], Kassel, Germany

Contact person: '''Prof. Dr. Diedrich Bruns'''

Diedrich Bruns is Full Professor and chair of Landscape Planning and Land Use at Kassel University, Germany. He worked in Africa, Asia, North America and on several European projects and has many years of experience in landscape planning practice, teaching and research. Planning methods is his main area of expertise, with a focus on participatory methods, particularly with respect to inclusiveness and early public involvement in landscape decision making. Dr Bruns has published several peer reviewed journal papers, book chapters and books.

== University of Bologna | Bologna, Italy ==

[http://www.da.unibo.it/it/internazionalizzazione/the-department-of-architecture-2013-university-of-bologna Department of Architecture,]
[[File:Luigi.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Luigi Bartolomei]]

Contact person: '''Prof. Luigi Bartolomei'''

Luigi Bartolomei, Architectural Engineer, obtained his PhD in Design and Architectural Composition at the University of Bologna with a thesis regarding the Phenomenology of Sacred Space. With this body of reserarch he promoted an analysis of archetypal figures in relation to the contemporary landscape and church architecture. He has worked at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna since 2007 among various roles. Luigi Bartolomei began as a tutor in History of Architecture (AA.2007/08 and 08/09) and later as a contract professor teaching Design and Architectural Composition (AA. 2009/10) and Landscape and Infrastructure Design (AA. 2010/11, 2011/12). The later course resulted in superior work between him and his students and was selected among the best projects regarding infrastructures in Italy by UrbanPromo. He is responsible for the Agreement between the Department of Architecture and FTER-Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna and subsequent courses that have derived from this collaborative partnership. He is a collaborator of the “The Journal of Architecture” [Il Giornale dell’Architettura] since 2008, where he has found a place for his architectural critic to be fully expressed. More specifically, Bartolomei was the editor of an investigative report regarding the city of Bologna (January 2012), and on the architecture of churches in the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (December 2012). In 2009 he won, in collaboration with Prof. Giorgio Praderio, a research project PRIN – Research of Relevant National Interest on the preservation and valorization of the landscape in small towns. Bartolomei is also actively involved with the Commission for Sacred Art and Architecture of Bologna Diocese, since 2008. He is currently responsible for the Project of Census of all Catholic Churches in the territory of Bologna’s Archdiocese (which involves more than 690 buildings). Since 2014 he is the director of “IN_BO, Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura”, (IN_BO, Researches and projects on territory, towns and architecture), an open-access and peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna.

== Szent István University | Budapest, Hungary ==

[http://sziu.hu/ Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism]
[[File:Albert fekete.jpg|mini|right|200px|Albert Fekete, PhD]]

Contact person: '''Albert Fekete, PhD'''

Graduated Landscape Architect, Head of Department of Garden Art and Dean of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism Budapest, Szent István University. He is an active landscape designer with European design experiences, having since 2000 his own office (Lépték Terv Landscape Office) in Budapest/Hungary and since 2007 the AB PLAN Design Office in Romania. He is working in Germany, Holland and Spain as well, having more than 50 realized landscape and open space design projects. He is member of the stearing commitee of the Hungarian Association of Landscape Architects. Being leader of several research projects in the last 15 years, he has a rich international scientifical experience as well. He was awarded among other in more than 15 design competitions, and won several national and international awards, for instance the „Landscape Architect of the Year 2012” prize in Hungary, and the „Europa Nostra Prize” of the EU in 2014.

== LE:NOTRE Institute ==

[http://www.le-notre.org LE:NOTRE Institute]
an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands.

Contact person: '''M.Eng. Anna Szilágyi-Nagy'''

[[File:Anna.JPG|mini|right|200px|M. Eng. Anna Szilágyi- Nagy]]

Anna Szilágyi-Nagy is a Hungarian MSc landscape architect graduated at the HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen, Germany. As board member of the Le:Notre Institute is in charge of the development of the international certification system in the LED project.
In her diploma she focused on collaborative revitalization strategy of the Hosszúréti-creek, emphasizing the role of public involvement and environmental education in the suburb of Budapest. Later she helped to facilitate the community planning process of Normafa Közösen and was a tutor of online courses provided by HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen.
Currently she is working for the Town Hall of Törökbálint to continue to propel creek revitalization process in her community and to smoothen cooperation between private and public sector. She is vice-president of the kultúrAktív Association, an NGO boosting playful tools and methods to support active citizenship and participation in urban life among children, and coordinates the development processes of the live board game Urbanity and the international action based project #playhellocity. She is also a guest lecturer at the Szent István University focusing on storytelling in creekside landscape.

= Associate Faculty =

== Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany ==

Representative of the [https://www.hfwu.de/hochschule/anlaufstellen/fakultaeten/flus School of Landscape Architecture, Environmental and Urban Design:]

'''Prof. Dr. Birgit Kröniger'''

[[File:Birgit Kroniger.JPG|mini|right|200px|Birgit Kröninger]]
Birgit Kröniger is Full Professor of design in landscape architecture at the HfWU Nürtingen since 2014. In 2000 she founded the design firm ver.de landschaftsarchitektur located in Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, together with two partners. Working interdisciplinary with a team consisting of up to ten landscape architects and students, Birgit and her partners have taken part succesfully in numerous design competitions for open spaces and designed and realized public urban spaces, courtyards and residential neighbourhoods which won several design awards. Birgit holds a diploma in landscape architecture and a doctoral degree from Technische Universität München. She worked for the landscape architect Peter Latz several years before she founded her own firm.

= Tutors =

[[File:Tonje_neu.JPG|mini|left|200px]]
'''M-LA Tonje Cecile Stordalen'''

''Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU)''

Tonje Cecilie Stordalen is a Ph.D. candidate of Landscape and Society at NMBU. The primary focus of her research is the democratization of everyday landscapes through community participation, and to develop an evaluative framework for assessing the performance of community-based processes. Tonje holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from NMBU.
She is passionate about participatory processes inspiring design and is mainly concerned with topics such as historical development, place identity and attachment, equality and right to landscape in a multicultural context.

[[File:Federica_neu.JPG|mini|left|200px]]
'''Federica Fuligini'''

Federica Fuligni is a master student in Architecture and Building Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy, and she is assisting Prof. Luigi Bartolomei in the LED project. Within the Erasmus+ program she studied at the Technical University in Munich and at the Wroclaw University of Technology.
Federica is engaged to architecture as a social problem and is currently developing her master thesis about how co-housing could support integration and guarantee dignity in disadvantaged situations.

= Former LED-project partners =

[[File:Kristin.JPG|mini|left|150px|Prof. Kristin Faurest]]
'''Kristin Faurest'''

Kristin Faurest is director of cultural institution at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. For 14 years she has managed her own design firm, Artemisia Landscape Design, specializing in gardens for small urban spaces and special needs populations. Her studies include time spent at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, London, and Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa. She was employed as associate professor of landscape architecture at Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary during her engagement in the LED-project.

[[File:Jacksonita3.jpg|mini|left|150px]]
'''Irene Jackson Gil

Irene is studying the International Master of Landscape Architecture in the HfWU where is student assistant for the LED program under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Fetzer. She did her bachelor degree in Architecture in the Unversidad Central de Venezuela. Currently she is writing her Master thesis, the topic is Non verbal communication in participatory design.

[[File:Mirsa GISHTI LED.jpg|mini|left|150px]]
'''Mirsa Gishti'''

Mirsa is since October 2015 a tutor of LED online course assisting Dr. Ellen Fetzer and participates at the same time at the ERASMUS+ Project ‘Social Entrepreneurship for Local Change’. She is keen on social dimensions of landscape and urban design and as well on developing appropriate means of including disadvantaged social groups.
She holds a previous Master Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania. Currently she is an IMLA Master student in the 4th semester at Nürtingen-Geislingen University in Germany and she is doing her internship at Faktorgruen in Freiburg (Germany) as landscape architect.

[[File:Sophie.JPG|mini|left|150px]]
'''Sophie Bittner'''

Sophie is a master student in landscape planning at the University of Kassel. She works at Prof. Diedrich Bruns chair landscape planning and land use as his student assistant for LED. In the year 2015 she studied one semester at the NMBU in Norway as an Erasmus student. At the moment she writes her master thesis, where participation as a democratic aspect is a great issue as well.

'''Ivana Lilikj'''

Ivana Lilikj is currently enrolled in the IMLA (International Master of Landscape Architecture) at Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany in the last semester, working on a Master Thesis: Green Infrastructure potentials for Ohrid region. Under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Fetzer she is student assistant in the LED online seminar. She holds a Bachelor diploma at the Faculty of Architecture and Society at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Ivana is interested in transboundary/international collaborations in the context of design/planning ranging from theory to practice.

= Partners map =
{{#display_map: 51.32562507899497,9.504040405263368~Kassel University~Landscape Planning Group; 48.60897699335809,9.35187622902049~HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen~School for Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design and Urban Planning; 59.66842037939986,10.766517519841727~NMBU~Centre for Landscape Democracy; 47.48009976883704,19.03879210350169~Svent Istvan University~Faculty for Landscape Architecture; 51.97546293564086,5.661449428880587~LE:NOTRE Institute; 44.49637918106034,11.353823393556013~Bologna University~Faculty for Architecture
}}

Partner Institutions

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= Project partner and grant coordinator =

== Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Ås, Norway ==

[https://www.nmbu.no/en/about-nmbu/faculties/samvit/departments/ilp Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning]

[[File:Deni.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Deni Ruggeri]]

Contact person: '''Prof. Deni Ruggeri'''

Dr. Deni Ruggeri is Associate Professor and Landscape Architecture Section Leader in the Institute for Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway. His research focuses on social dimensions of landscape and urban design. He is particularly interested in the influence landscapes have on people’s place identity and attachment, and in developing new tools and processes for engaging communities in the design of places that are conducive to sustainable lifestyles, physical and mental well-being, ecological health, economic viability, identity, delight, and biophilia.

Deni Ruggeri’s education includes a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and graduate degrees in both Landscape Architecture and City Planning from Cornell University. He has practiced landscape architecture in California and Colorado, and has international experience in leading community design and visioning processes. Before joining NMBU, Deni has taught in the USA at the University of Oregon and Cornell University.

= Project partners =

== Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany ==

[[File:Ellen.JPG|mini|right|200px|Dr. Ellen Fetzer]]
[https://www.hfwu.de/elearning/ Competence Centre for University Didactics]

Contact person: '''Dr Ellen Fetzer'''

Ellen Fetzer holds a diploma and a doctoral degree in landscape planning from Kassel University, Germany. Since 2001 she has been working at the school for landscape architecture, environmental and urban planning in Nürtigen (Stuttgart area, Germany). She is primarly coordinating an international master degree in landscape architecture (IMLA). The second focus of her work is in the Centre for University Didactics as an e-learning coordinator. Ellen works a lot in the field of computer-supported collaborative learning and facilitates online seminars in international cooperations. She is vice-president of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.

== University of Kassel | Kassel, Germany ==
[[File:Diedrich.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Diedrich Bruns]]
School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, [http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb06/fachgebiete/landschaftsarchitektur-und-planung/landschaftsplanung-landnutzung/startseite.html Landscape Planning Group], Kassel, Germany

Contact person: '''Prof. Dr. Diedrich Bruns'''

Diedrich Bruns is Full Professor and chair of Landscape Planning and Land Use at Kassel University, Germany. He worked in Africa, Asia, North America and on several European projects and has many years of experience in landscape planning practice, teaching and research. Planning methods is his main area of expertise, with a focus on participatory methods, particularly with respect to inclusiveness and early public involvement in landscape decision making. Dr Bruns has published several peer reviewed journal papers, book chapters and books.

== University of Bologna | Bologna, Italy ==

[http://www.da.unibo.it/it/internazionalizzazione/the-department-of-architecture-2013-university-of-bologna Department of Architecture,]
[[File:Luigi.JPG|mini|right|200px|Prof. Luigi Bartolomei]]

Contact person: '''Prof. Luigi Bartolomei'''

Luigi Bartolomei, Architectural Engineer, obtained his PhD in Design and Architectural Composition at the University of Bologna with a thesis regarding the Phenomenology of Sacred Space. With this body of reserarch he promoted an analysis of archetypal figures in relation to the contemporary landscape and church architecture. He has worked at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna since 2007 among various roles. Luigi Bartolomei began as a tutor in History of Architecture (AA.2007/08 and 08/09) and later as a contract professor teaching Design and Architectural Composition (AA. 2009/10) and Landscape and Infrastructure Design (AA. 2010/11, 2011/12). The later course resulted in superior work between him and his students and was selected among the best projects regarding infrastructures in Italy by UrbanPromo. He is responsible for the Agreement between the Department of Architecture and FTER-Theological Faculty of Emilia-Romagna and subsequent courses that have derived from this collaborative partnership. He is a collaborator of the “The Journal of Architecture” [Il Giornale dell’Architettura] since 2008, where he has found a place for his architectural critic to be fully expressed. More specifically, Bartolomei was the editor of an investigative report regarding the city of Bologna (January 2012), and on the architecture of churches in the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council (December 2012). In 2009 he won, in collaboration with Prof. Giorgio Praderio, a research project PRIN – Research of Relevant National Interest on the preservation and valorization of the landscape in small towns. Bartolomei is also actively involved with the Commission for Sacred Art and Architecture of Bologna Diocese, since 2008. He is currently responsible for the Project of Census of all Catholic Churches in the territory of Bologna’s Archdiocese (which involves more than 690 buildings). Since 2014 he is the director of “IN_BO, Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura”, (IN_BO, Researches and projects on territory, towns and architecture), an open-access and peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna.

== Szent István University | Budapest, Hungary ==

[ http://sziu.hu/ Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism ]
[[File:Albert fekete.jpg|mini|right|200px|Albert Fekete, PhD]]

Contact person: '''Albert Fekete, PhD'''

Graduated Landscape Architect, Head of Department of Garden Art and Dean of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism Budapest, Szent István University. He is an active landscape designer with European design experiences, having since 2000 his own office (Lépték Terv Landscape Office) in Budapest/Hungary and since 2007 the AB PLAN Design Office in Romania. He is working in Germany, Holland and Spain as well, having more than 50 realized landscape and open space design projects. He is member of the stearing commitee of the Hungarian Association of Landscape Architects. Being leader of several research projects in the last 15 years, he has a rich international scientifical experience as well. He was awarded among other in more than 15 design competitions, and won several national and international awards, for instance the „Landscape Architect of the Year 2012” prize in Hungary, and the „Europa Nostra Prize” of the EU in 2014.

== LE:NOTRE Institute ==

[http://www.le-notre.org LE:NOTRE Institute]
an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands.

Contact person: '''M.Eng. Anna Szilágyi-Nagy'''

[[File:Anna.JPG|mini|right|200px|M. Eng. Anna Szilágyi- Nagy]]

Anna Szilágyi-Nagy is a Hungarian MSc landscape architect graduated at the HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen, Germany. As board member of the Le:Notre Institute is in charge of the development of the international certification system in the LED project.
In her diploma she focused on collaborative revitalization strategy of the Hosszúréti-creek, emphasizing the role of public involvement and environmental education in the suburb of Budapest. Later she helped to facilitate the community planning process of Normafa Közösen and was a tutor of online courses provided by HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen.
Currently she is working for the Town Hall of Törökbálint to continue to propel creek revitalization process in her community and to smoothen cooperation between private and public sector. She is vice-president of the kultúrAktív Association, an NGO boosting playful tools and methods to support active citizenship and participation in urban life among children, and coordinates the development processes of the live board game Urbanity and the international action based project #playhellocity. She is also a guest lecturer at the Szent István University focusing on storytelling in creekside landscape.

= Associate Faculty =

== Nürtingen-Geislingen University | Nürtingen, Germany ==

Representative of the [https://www.hfwu.de/hochschule/anlaufstellen/fakultaeten/flus School of Landscape Architecture, Environmental and Urban Design:]

'''Prof. Dr. Birgit Kröniger'''

[[File:Birgit Kroniger.JPG|mini|right|200px|Birgit Kröninger]]
Birgit Kröniger is Full Professor of design in landscape architecture at the HfWU Nürtingen since 2014. In 2000 she founded the design firm ver.de landschaftsarchitektur located in Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, together with two partners. Working interdisciplinary with a team consisting of up to ten landscape architects and students, Birgit and her partners have taken part succesfully in numerous design competitions for open spaces and designed and realized public urban spaces, courtyards and residential neighbourhoods which won several design awards. Birgit holds a diploma in landscape architecture and a doctoral degree from Technische Universität München. She worked for the landscape architect Peter Latz several years before she founded her own firm.

= Tutors =

[[File:Tonje_neu.JPG|mini|left|200px]]
'''M-LA Tonje Cecile Stordalen'''

''Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU)''

Tonje Cecilie Stordalen is a Ph.D. candidate of Landscape and Society at NMBU. The primary focus of her research is the democratization of everyday landscapes through community participation, and to develop an evaluative framework for assessing the performance of community-based processes. Tonje holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from NMBU.
She is passionate about participatory processes inspiring design and is mainly concerned with topics such as historical development, place identity and attachment, equality and right to landscape in a multicultural context.

[[File:Federica_neu.JPG|mini|left|200px]]
'''Federica Fuligini'''

Federica Fuligni is a master student in Architecture and Building Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy, and she is assisting Prof. Luigi Bartolomei in the LED project. Within the Erasmus+ program she studied at the Technical University in Munich and at the Wroclaw University of Technology.
Federica is engaged to architecture as a social problem and is currently developing her master thesis about how co-housing could support integration and guarantee dignity in disadvantaged situations.

= Former LED-project partners =

[[File:Kristin.JPG|mini|left|150px|Prof. Kristin Faurest]]
'''Kristin Faurest'''

Kristin Faurest is director of cultural institution at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. For 14 years she has managed her own design firm, Artemisia Landscape Design, specializing in gardens for small urban spaces and special needs populations. Her studies include time spent at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, London, and Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa. She was employed as associate professor of landscape architecture at Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary during her engagement in the LED-project.

[[File:Jacksonita3.jpg|mini|left|150px]]
'''Irene Jackson Gil

Irene is studying the International Master of Landscape Architecture in the HfWU where is student assistant for the LED program under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Fetzer. She did her bachelor degree in Architecture in the Unversidad Central de Venezuela. Currently she is writing her Master thesis, the topic is Non verbal communication in participatory design.

[[File:Mirsa GISHTI LED.jpg|mini|left|150px]]
'''Mirsa Gishti'''

Mirsa is since October 2015 a tutor of LED online course assisting Dr. Ellen Fetzer and participates at the same time at the ERASMUS+ Project ‘Social Entrepreneurship for Local Change’. She is keen on social dimensions of landscape and urban design and as well on developing appropriate means of including disadvantaged social groups.
She holds a previous Master Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania. Currently she is an IMLA Master student in the 4th semester at Nürtingen-Geislingen University in Germany and she is doing her internship at Faktorgruen in Freiburg (Germany) as landscape architect.

[[File:Sophie.JPG|mini|left|150px]]
'''Sophie Bittner'''

Sophie is a master student in landscape planning at the University of Kassel. She works at Prof. Diedrich Bruns chair landscape planning and land use as his student assistant for LED. In the year 2015 she studied one semester at the NMBU in Norway as an Erasmus student. At the moment she writes her master thesis, where participation as a democratic aspect is a great issue as well.

'''Ivana Lilikj'''

Ivana Lilikj is currently enrolled in the IMLA (International Master of Landscape Architecture) at Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany in the last semester, working on a Master Thesis: Green Infrastructure potentials for Ohrid region. Under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Fetzer she is student assistant in the LED online seminar. She holds a Bachelor diploma at the Faculty of Architecture and Society at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Ivana is interested in transboundary/international collaborations in the context of design/planning ranging from theory to practice.

= Partners map =
{{#display_map: 51.32562507899497,9.504040405263368~Kassel University~Landscape Planning Group; 48.60897699335809,9.35187622902049~HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen~School for Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design and Urban Planning; 59.66842037939986,10.766517519841727~NMBU~Centre for Landscape Democracy; 47.48009976883704,19.03879210350169~Svent Istvan University~Faculty for Landscape Architecture; 51.97546293564086,5.661449428880587~LE:NOTRE Institute; 44.49637918106034,11.353823393556013~Bologna University~Faculty for Architecture
}}

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The Villa Ghigi building in Bologna is still representing a missed occasion. This house is located in the homonymous park and dating back to the IXX century, though the first establishment is in the XVI century, but it is now abandoned. The Park of Villa Ghigi has a very high naturalistic value: it is located on the hills at the south Bologna, it is really close to the city center though it has not the features of an urban park. In fact presents a “rural” arrangement, with rows of fruit trees, and has strong differences of levels. The past proprietaries Callisto Ghigi and his son Alessandro brought a lot of exotic species of plants, even from Asia, making the park a sort of oasis for the biodiversity. Today the ownership is of the common, the park and the villa managed by a founding called Fondazione Villa Ghigi that promotes pedagogical activities with the schools and walks in the park.

Although the park is very popular, there is an under-utilization of the architectural work: the “villa”, the “caretaker’s house”, the “palazzino” where the Fondazione Villa Ghigi is established. There is a project to make the caretaker’s house a small refreshment point, but it is a pity that the a building as important as the villa will remain empty in state of decay. The main problem, as always, is the lack of money, some years ago the common banned an auction but it went deserted. The building need a restoration. The challenge in this case is to raise awareness on what that place could be; is necessary that people knew that the place is resource for the community. People often do not think that abandoned places are their properties and also opportunities, but they only accept the situation as it is.

The core concept for this case of study is the new appropriation (not a re-appropriation because the villa has never been public) of a place that could be a great resource for the city and for the community. It needs to create a vision. Imagine new activities and new usage modes. The city of Bologna is not dead from this point of view: you can count some episodes where association won public calls for the regeneration of unproductive sites. Starting from the strong features: the park is popular, close to the center, very rich of plants, pedagogical programs that could be empower, you may involve citizenship, particularly the kids from the school, or member the association engaged in protection of the environment and biodiversity, to start visioning meeting to imagine the future of the park.

== Power Map ==

The main challenge for The Villa Ghigi and the park is that there are a lot of users who don't have any real power over the landscape. As shown in the power map, the power lies with the municipality and the Villa Ghigi Foundation, while the stakeholders that use the area a lot (represented by the size of the writing where larger is most use and smaller is less use) have low power.

<gallery caption="Power Map, needs and interests" widths="600px" heights="300px" perrow="1">
File:G A5 4.jpg|Power Map.
File:G A5 5.jpg|Stakeholder needs and interests.
</gallery>

== Change Process ==

<gallery caption="Change Process" widths="600px" heights="300px" perrow="1">
File:G A5 6.jpg|Change Process
</gallery>

== Concluding reflections ==

The change model we have created is mainly based on the theory of stewardship, as explained by Hester, as a reciprocal way of bringing new life to forgotten spaces.

The change model seeks to bring power to different user groups and lessen the municipal and “aristocratic” power structure that has ruled this site for a long time, thus making it more likely to reconnect the inhabitants of Bologna with the nature through Villa Ghigi and the surrounding park. This change model also has the potential of bringing several different user groups together and to create a bridge between formal and informal stakeholders. Moreover, the model creates the potential of local stewardship and a possibility to create a lasting place identity and sense of belonging.

However, the model also has some limitations. The financial issues have not been settled and there are some gaps in the model as to who will organize concerts, events and roundtables to start with. The model is also highly dependent on private individuals with a heart for the cause. In addition, one could argue that this model is too limited to this case and therefore not fit to be adapted to other areas or case studies.

LED 2016 Group G Democratic Change Process

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