LED Online Seminar Assignments 2021

The activitites of this seminar are strongly linked to the processes of the local LED2LEAP Living Labs.

A LED2LEAP Living Lab can happen anywhere. What you need is a group of people interested in advancing democratic landscape transformations within a local community. Your then need to find a community/NGO or local group to work with, and identify a landscape democracy challenge you want to tackle and impact through your work.

During the seminar, we will accompany you with theory reflection, methodical guidance, case studies and transnational reflection sessions.

Our transnational reflection sessions give you the opportunity to discuss the interim results of your LED2LEAP Living Lab process:

General Materials

• Session recordings, slides and online submission area
• Landscape Democracy Reading List

Phase A

Required Readings

Please distribute the readings within your team.

• Schneidewind, Uwe et al (2016): Pledge for a Transformative Science - A conceptual framework
• Council of Europe (2000):The European Landscape Convention
• Landscape Convention Contribution to human rights, democracy and sustainable development (Council of Europe, 2018)
• Editors Shelley Egoz, Karsten Jørgensen, Deni Ruggeri (2018): Defining Landscape Democracy (introductory chapter)
• LED Team (2019):Landscape Education for Democracy (Chapters 1-3, InBo Special Issue)
• Kühne, Olaf (2015): Landscape Concepts
• Kühne, Bruns et al: Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes
• Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy
• Wilson, Barbara (2020): Disorientation as a Learning Objective

Further Readings - If interested, more can be found here.

Assignment 1

Assignment Due - April 21, 2021: Who is your community? We reflect on your conceptual community maps.

Phase B

Required Readings

Please distribute the readings within your team.

• Mallika Bose, Paula Horrigan, Cheryl Doble, Sigmund Shipp (2014): Community Matters
• David De La Pena, Diane Allen, Randolph Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Laura Lawson, Marcia McNally (2017) Design as Democracy You can choose to read chapter 2, chapter 3 or chapter 4
• Tom Angotti, Cheryl Doble, Paula Horrigan (2011): At the Boundaries

Further Readings - If interested, more can be found here.

Assignment 2

Assignment Due - May 12, 2021: Participatory analysis and assessment We reflect on your process of understanding landscape assets and challenges

• View the video introduction to this assignment given by Thomas Oles
• View the video introduction to the presentation of this assignment given by Andrea Conti

Phase C

Required Readings

Please distribute the readings within your team

• UN Habitat: Visioning as Participatory Planning Tool
• Apel, Heino (2004): The Future Workshop
• Ruggeri, Deni (2004): Crafting Westport, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley , CA (co-author)
• N Harvey, CA Holmes et al: Nominal group technique: An effective method for obtaining group consensus
• Dunham, Randall: Nominal Group Technique: A User's Guide
• Vidal, R.V.V. (2005) The Future Workshop: Democratic Problem Solving [Technical Report], Denmark: Technological University of Denmark

Further Readings - If interested, more can be found here.

Case study (lecture recording)

• Frech, Siri (2020): Future Concept Goldberg Mildenitz

Assignment 3

Assignment Due - June 2, 2021 Collaborative goal setting and visioning: How did this work out with the community?

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Phase D

Required Readings

Please distribute the readings within your team.

Prototypes

• Probes, Toolkits and Prototypes: Three Approaches to Making in Co-designing CoDesign, 2014 Vol. 10, No. 1, 5–14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2014.888183

• Histories and Futures of Research through Design: From Prototypes to Connected Things. http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/3192/875

• Probes and prototypes: a participatory action research approach to codesign. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15710882.2014.881884

• Bedö, V. (2019). Rapid Street Game Design: Prototyping Laboratory for Urban Change. In M. d. Lange & M. d. Waal (Eds.), The hackable city : digital media and collaborative city-making in the network society(pp. 51-65). Singapore: Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2694-3_3

Ethics of Prototyping

• Ethics by Design. Exploring Experiences of Harmony and Dissonance in Ethical Practice. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14606925.2019.1595428?needAccess=true

• Towards Ethical Principles for Participatory Design Practice https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2018.1502324

• Ethics for Design - online documentary (50min) https://ethicsfordesign.com/player?lang=en

Assignment 4

Assignment Due - June 23, 2021 Co-Design and Transformation: Which ideas came out? Which small changes could you implement?

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Phase E

Assignment 4

Assignment Due - July 7, 2021: Evaluation and Future Agendas: Here we reflect on the impact of your LAB activities and potential future agendas for your communities.

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• Session slides and literature

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