Democratic Landscape Transformation 2024 - Team 14

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Background of your team

tiPlease present your team briefly. Which linguistic and cultural perspectives does each member bring in? Which disciplinary backgrounds are present in your team?

• Todd Carroll: Young adult student in IMLA (Freising, DE), originally from USA with an academic and professional background in civil engineering, transport systems, and wind energy. My personal interests include linguistics, architecture, gastronomy, cycling, and searching for adventure in everyday life.
• Sara Szeker: Landscape architecture masters student in MATE (Budapest, Hungary). My personal interests include drawing, hiking, traveling and spending time in the nature.
• Tina Bagherzadeh Moghadam: I am a master student in field of ACPCL at unibo university (Italy), originally from Iran. my interest are urban and landscape designing.
• Joanne Coughlan: I'm an architect and landscape architect living and working in Dublin, Ireland. I'm a sole practitioner but work collaboratively with other colleagues on a variety of projects from micro- to macro- scale. When I'm not worrying about climate change, I spend as much time as I can with our 6-year old, two dogs, and friends.

Your Landscape Democracy Manifestoes

Here you can add links to the manifestoes you have presented on April 24. Please make sure that the links are accessible. You can also add them directly here on the wiki, they need to be png or jpg format then.

• Todd Carroll: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntddrDMZHph0hzpmieG33OKl5GgMevkX/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111135779094337626644&rtpof=true&sd=true
• Sara Szeker: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p9pLmSeU6HQ6BCk2X3uvRJaZOrpxLPdo/view
• Tina Bagherzadeh Moghadam: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGDPf5QTWo/_nuhi28W9-iq0Jj0NeFMcw/edit
• Joanne Coughlan: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:9bf8310f-4359-3ed3-b20b-d97ce79631ff

Readings, concepts and definitions

• Start: April 3, 2024
• Due: July 2, 2024

While working in your group, please start to express your personal understanding of the relation of landscape and democracy in the form of a concept map with linking words or any other diagrammatic representation. Please make your maps very visual and not just verbal. Think critically about why one map differs from another.

The final product is a shared concept map that integrates the various understandings present within your team.

About concept mapping

Before starting the exercise you can read this article by Joseph D. Novak & Alberto J. Cañas about Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them. This paper gives a good explanation of how concept maps are conceived and developed.

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

• Cmap Tools >>> you can also work with your group on the Cmap cloud doing a shared map
• VUE - The Visual Understanding Environment
• Use a shared whiteboard to develop your integrated concept map, such as MIRO or MURAL

How to present your concept maps

• Possible format: JPG (for wiki upload) or link to any other resource
• We give you below a draft image gallery where you can add pictures of your map (in JPG or PNG format)
• You can present your integrated understanding as one concept map or your present individual ones and the integrated one.
• add as many additional materials as you need

Overview of your concept maps (individual and integrated)

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  Sara

Please finish with a short reflection

• What are the similarities and differences in your team regarding your understanding of what democratic landscape transformation is?
• At the beginning of our sessions, each of us had a different definition of landscape democracy, and even this was evident from our manifesto we did. However, in the end, we arrived at a common understanding, not in the sense that any option or opinion was eliminated, but rather that landscape democracy encompasses a broad understanding of all these aspects. It includes human rights, Equality and Access, rights of nature, animal rights, and the rights of future generations, among many other things.
• In how far did the seminar lectures and readings help you to clarify this?
• This course highlighted broader aspects of landscape democracy that we either didn’t have information about before or weren’t discussing. In design, democracy plays a crucial role, for instance one of this aspect is collaboration. We found that involving ordinary local people in designing spaces like parks can be very positive. These individuals often have a better understanding of the space and its challenges because they are more connected to it. so collaborating with people and considering common people's opinions can be helpful in successful design.
• What will you take home from this seminar?
• honestly, this seminar opened our eyes, and we believe it taught us many valuable things. we understood that in design, we must consider a multitude of factors from the past to the future. Preserving a space’s identity while respecting the rights of all individuals and future generations is of utmost importance. These principles should guide us in our designs. Landscape architects play a significant role in achieving this balance, ensuring that spaces embody democratic values and serve the well-being of communities.