Democratic Landscape Transformation 2024 - Team 1

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Background of your team

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

• Eloy Mansour : Landscape Architect. Urbanism student at École d'Urbanisme de Paris; I am Lebanese, studied landscape architecture in Lebanon and France.
• Adrina Rostamian : I am from Iran and I got my Bachelor's degree in Architecture engineering . Now I am a Master's student in International Landscape Architecture at HSWT in Freising,Germany.
• Ilze Lemus : Landscape Architecture Student at IMLA program in Weihenstephan University. I'm an architect from Mexico.
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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.

• Eloy Mansour : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XzL7_codedHv8TbQm0k2TZYRMsMTYWPr/view
• Adrina Rostamian : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YLBw14w4xeHfSMoqRCuJ3IHfciqn07Vk/view?usp=drive_link
• Ilze Lemus: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGDQYViF44/Ma16axQyfhKfucCuJuzsvg/edit?utm_content=DAGDQYViF44&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
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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 (individiual and integrated)

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  Team 1 map

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  Adrina Rostamian

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  Ilze Lemus. https://www.canva.com/design/DAGJbU7lwxw/LLUeA-hYvFlPRjYm34Nzlg/view?utm_content=DAGJbU7lwxw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor

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  Eloy Mansour https://www.canva.com/design/DAGJ0Uqav70/gT4_nTJGJfcS1XBM-hiu_g/view?utm_content=DAGJ0Uqav70&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor

Please finish with a short reflection

• What are the similarities and differences in your team regarding your understanding of what democratic landscape transformation is?
• We didn't have the same beliefs in the utility of democracy and workshops and participation.
• In how far did the seminar lectures and readings help you to clarify this?
• We now learned there is good change achieved through democratic design. We now believe we can take responsability and help any community to find good solutions for the landscape they inhabit.
• What will you take home from this seminar?
• Public consultation and participation is not an easy task, we may face financial support, attendance and interest from the community, still it is very important to hear about needs and values within the community.
• We should always plan as designers to achieve collaborative design, taking also into account different stakeholders.
• This process will help achieve or better our initial goals.
• We can learn much from the others and not only proffesionals should have a voice.
• This experience, helped us realize there is problems and opportunities to better the landscape all over the world, and sharing our personal experience is very important too.