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'''Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to build more inclusive, open and democratic landscape planning processes?


Then register now for the LED Program – an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.


Registration for our April-June 2016 online seminar is happening now!'''


''Every design action is a political act. Whose politics will we style?''


== Introduction ==
--Randy Hester, "Declaration of Interdependence," the Landscape Architecture Foundation


The landscape belongs to everyone and we should all have equal access to it and a voice in how it is used and maintained. However, spatial planning education rarely includes considerations of democratic processes, participatory planning, community design and landscape stewardship. Our design and planning education does not fully prepare future practioners to become leaders and work effectively in partnership with communities.
'''<br />What's the Open Landscape Academy (OLA) and why should you, as a student of design and planning disciplines, be part of it?'''


This is the idea behind the LED (Landscape Education for Democracy) project, a partnership between 5 European landscape architecture faculties and the Le:Notre Institute. LED seeks to promote empowerment, participation and active citizenship among young people through interdisciplinary, problem-based learning environments and curricular innovation that introduces landscape and democracy as a cross-disciplinary subject. Our goal is to fill a gap in design and planning education and give students the opportunity to confront themselves with pressing issues of landscape democracy, right to the landscape and participation. The LED project starts this spring and is structured in three year-long cycles, each featuring a 12-session online course that is available to students at any institution, as well as a two-week summer on-site intensive programme available only to students at partner universities.
Open Landscape Academy is a three part project focusing on democratic landscape transformation, launching in April 2023, including:


* Democratic Landscape Transformation, a semester-long international online educational seminar presented by a team of practitioners from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world
* Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
* Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented


== Course schedule and content for 2016 ==
'''What's the Open Landscape Academy's approach?'''


This is an participatory action research (PAR) project on landscape democracy, which means that our team of instructors are also learning and experimenting in the course of the project. The basic question driving the project is how we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation. Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights. The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy. We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.


=== Online seminar: April-June ===
'''What history and values inform OLA?'''


The online module consists of twelve 90-minute sessions of lectures, reading materials, collaborative group work, concept mapping, storyboarding and other diverse active and passive learning tools.
The OLA model builds on the experiences matured during two previous projects, Landscape Education for Democracy (LED) and its successor, LED2LEAP projects, but is now a more expansive partnership to include all communities of practice involved in promoting systemic change that benefits individuals and ecosystems. The OLA instruction team have a diverse set of many different values that govern the program's methodology and content, with a few of them being:


Themes are organized around the following areas:  
[[File:LED 2017 Word Cloud Blue.png|thumb,|600px|right|The results of the terminology exercise were analysed and categorised based on concept definitions and the repetition of these concepts. Later these definitions were used to create a word cloud highlighting the most-used terms in the participant's collective output]]
*Landscape and democracy
*Concepts of participation
*Community and identity
*The design process
*Communication and representation


* Empathy
* Democracy
* Openness
* Participation
* Sustainability
* Resilience
* Collective creativity
* Regenerative design
* Empowerment
* Connectivity
* Empowerment
* Justice
* Equity
* Respect


== Conditions for participation and credits ==
'''What can you expect to learn from OLA?'''


Participation in the online seminar is free and open to students at any institution as well as the public. For passive participation, no registration is required. For active participation and earning the five ECTS associated with the online seminar, registration and completion of coursework are required.  Registration can be done here:
We as a team have multiple learning objectives for our students and know that due to the experimental, participatory nature of OLA, new and unexpected learning objectives will emerge in the course of the program. The learning objectives are laid out in more detail elsewhere on this Wiki, but here are just a few of the many topics we plan to explore within the overarching theme of landscape democracy:


* Systems thinking
* Power structures
* Democratic process
* Techniques for community engagement and participation
* Right to the landscape
* Transportation justice
* Landscape storytelling
* Environmental justice
* Mapping


== About the partners ==


'''Grant holder and coordinator'''
* Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at NMBU, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences


'''Project partners are'''
== ERASMUS+ Programme ==
*Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Nürtingen, Germany
[[File:EN-Funded by the EU-POS.jpg|right|420px|]]
*University of Kassel School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, Kassel, Germany
The OLA Project is partially funded by the ERASMUS+ European Union grant program, under grant no.2022-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000085922. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency is responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damages incurred that are the result of the use of these resources.
*Szent István  University, Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
*Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna, Italy
*LE:NOTRE Institute, an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands.
 
== ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership Programme ==
[[File:Eu funded led.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The creation of these resources has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no.2015-1-NO01-KA203-013239 Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.]]

Latest revision as of 08:21, 4 May 2023


Every design action is a political act. Whose politics will we style?

--Randy Hester, "Declaration of Interdependence," the Landscape Architecture Foundation


What's the Open Landscape Academy (OLA) and why should you, as a student of design and planning disciplines, be part of it?

Open Landscape Academy is a three part project focusing on democratic landscape transformation, launching in April 2023, including:

  • Democratic Landscape Transformation, a semester-long international online educational seminar presented by a team of practitioners from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world
  • Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
  • Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented

What's the Open Landscape Academy's approach?

This is an participatory action research (PAR) project on landscape democracy, which means that our team of instructors are also learning and experimenting in the course of the project. The basic question driving the project is how we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation. Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights. The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy. We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.

What history and values inform OLA?

The OLA model builds on the experiences matured during two previous projects, Landscape Education for Democracy (LED) and its successor, LED2LEAP projects, but is now a more expansive partnership to include all communities of practice involved in promoting systemic change that benefits individuals and ecosystems. The OLA instruction team have a diverse set of many different values that govern the program's methodology and content, with a few of them being:

The results of the terminology exercise were analysed and categorised based on concept definitions and the repetition of these concepts. Later these definitions were used to create a word cloud highlighting the most-used terms in the participant's collective output
  • Empathy
  • Democracy
  • Openness
  • Participation
  • Sustainability
  • Resilience
  • Collective creativity
  • Regenerative design
  • Empowerment
  • Connectivity
  • Empowerment
  • Justice
  • Equity
  • Respect

What can you expect to learn from OLA?

We as a team have multiple learning objectives for our students and know that due to the experimental, participatory nature of OLA, new and unexpected learning objectives will emerge in the course of the program. The learning objectives are laid out in more detail elsewhere on this Wiki, but here are just a few of the many topics we plan to explore within the overarching theme of landscape democracy:

  • Systems thinking
  • Power structures
  • Democratic process
  • Techniques for community engagement and participation
  • Right to the landscape
  • Transportation justice
  • Landscape storytelling
  • Environmental justice
  • Mapping


ERASMUS+ Programme

EN-Funded by the EU-POS.jpg

The OLA Project is partially funded by the ERASMUS+ European Union grant program, under grant no.2022-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000085922. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency is responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damages incurred that are the result of the use of these resources.

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