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Dear working group members. This is your group page and you will be completing the template gradually as we move through the seminar. Good luck and enjoy your collaboration!

Assignment 1 - Reading and Synthesizing Core Terminology

  • You can read more details about this assignment here
  • Readings are accessible via the resources page

Step 1: Your Landscape Democracy Manifestoes

Step 2: Define your readings

  • Please add your readings selection for the terminology exercise before April 12:

A: Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain

Landscape Concepts:

  • Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (Luca)

B: Concepts of Participation

  • Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts (Florian)

C: Community and Identity

  • Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014. (Negar Rezaei Azghandi)

D: Designing

  • Salgado, Mariana, et al. (2015): Designing with Immigrants (Malene)

E: Communicating a Vision

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

Author 1: Florian Matthies

  • the knowledge society [Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts]
    • Society has shiftet from an industrial one to a "knowledge society". Nowadays the knowledge producing industries like education, reasearch, development, media and communication are the most important ones. Scientific expertise is of a higher value than experience. Thereby people are disadvantaged and more powerless by having less scientific knowledge.
  • research with the people [Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts]
    • To narrow the gap of knowledge in society, professionals need to research with the people. Thereby socially powerless groups can get into action. The researcher (the expert) starts with questions risen by the powerless groups and gives them back comprehensive information.
  • towards a knowledge democracy [Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts]
    • The economic production is controlled by a few people of dominant knowledge. This needs to be changed to realize a real political democracy.

Author 2: Negar Rezaei Azghandi

  • [Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014]
    • Exposing the landscape crisis for the society and people through the movies, because sometimes the natural environment are interfered by the human.
  • [Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014]
    • Utilization of real landscape in making a movie as a cinematic landscape. Because, Cinematic landscape is often the result of all kinds of trickery.
  • [Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014]
    • Importance of authenticity of landscape especially for making films when it plays an important role and also using the landscape as a kind of mirror of feelings.

Author 3: Luca Maresi

  • Imageability[Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press]
    • It's the "quality in a physical object wich gives it a high probaility of evoking a strong image in any given observer" that it's essential to the city's buildings in order to create a link of affinity in the two way process between the inhabitant and the city itself.
  • Equilibrium [Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press]
    • To be percevied as whole, organic and beautiful the city needs a correct interrelation between its elements, paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks avoioding the over-concentration of elements in different areas that tear apart the urban fabric and create inequalities.
  • Direct Analysis [Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press]
    • The analysis of the esxisting is essential and a good starting point of every consideration but most of all, expecially facing different realities, the contact with the people who live everyday those cities is vital to have a complete scheme of inner and esternal views.

Author 4:Malene Øien Eiksund

  • Salgado, Mariana, et al. (2015): Designing with Immigrants*.......

If we consider design a question of “problem-defining” rather than “problem solving” (Kalantidou & Fry, 2014, 5), including immigrants in participatory design processes is key to transformative actions capable of producing social change.

  • Designing with immigrants is good because it is not language based, bud image based instead.

Step 5: Reflection

According to our readings we came to the conclusion, that landscape concepts can be seen through an either physical or social perspective. Landscape is a physical appearance in the first case. So "the quality of physical objects" is very relevant to the people. This creates a link of affinity between the residents and their city for example. Especially for cities the interrelation between its elements, paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks is important. They need to be balanced to maintain a good urban fabric. Analyzing these existing structures is essential of every consideration. Furthermore landscape is connected to social issues as well. One social aspect is the shifting society towards a "knowledge society" where science and education are very important. Another social aspect is the integration of immigrants which is because of the currently big flow of refugees of a high significance today. Landscape can be experienced in movies as well. Often this is a cinematic landscape which is not real. Landscape can also function as a mirror of feelings in movies. Landscape concepts can be very different. To understand landscape every aspect has to be taken into account.

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

Assignment 2 - Your Landscape Symbols

  • You can read more details about this assignment here

Landscape Symbols Author 1: Negar Rezaei Azghandi

Landscape Symbols Author: Luca Maresi

Landscape Symbols Author 3: Florian Matthies

Landscape Symbols Author 4: Malene Eiksund

Assignment 3 - Role Play on Landscape Democracy "movers and shakers"

  • You can read more details about this assignment here

Assignment 4 - Your Landscape Democracy Challenge

  • You can read more details about this assignment here
  • Each group member will specify a landscape democracy challenge in his/her environment

Landscape Democracy Challenge 1: Negar Rezaei Azghandi

Your references:

  • Own research
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Landscape Democracy Challenge 2: Florian Matthies

Your references:

  • graphic reference: own research

Landscape Democracy Challenge 3: Luca Maresi

Your references:

  • ...
  • ...

Landscape Democracy Challenge 4: Malene Øien Eiksund

Your references:

  • Pictures by me

Assignment 5 - Your Democratic Change Process

  • You can read more details about this assignment 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

Reflection

  • Evaluate in the group how far your ideas either built on the theoretical frame that has been introduced to you during this seminar or react to this by filling a potential gap (approx 150 words)

Your references

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