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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==


LED (Landscape Education for Democracy) is an interdisciplinary, international course unit training conceptual thinking, diversity
The landscape belongs to everyone. We should all have equal access to it and a voice in how it is used, valued and maintained. However, spatial planning education rarely includes considerations of democratic processes, participatory planning, community design and landscape stewardship. Furthermore, it does not fully prepare young practioners to become leaders in promoting democratic landscape change and work effectively in partnership with communities.
management and intercultural communication for building leadership competence in the spatial planning professions.
To meet contemporary needs in spatial planning, we need to rethink design and planning education so that future practitioners will
have the knowledge, skills and sensitivities necessary to design and implement democratic decision making in landscape planning.


LED promotes empowerment, participation and active citizenship among young people by directly addressing the topic of
The idea behind the LED (Landscape Education for Democracy) project, a [[Partner_Institutions|partnership]] between 5 European landscape architecture faculties and the LE:NOTRE Institute is to promote awareness and empower young design and planning professionals to become more active in shaping democratic change. 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.  
participation and active citizenship, thus enhancing relevant competences needed for facing social, cultural and environmental
challenges in Europe. It also includes training participation methods in interdisciplinary constellations as a fruitful ground for
groundbreaking new ideas for local change. In this way it clearly supports the objectives of the 2013 Communication on Opening Up
Education through providing an open, online course. LED focuses on the importance of the practical, everyday application of the
principles of the European Landscape Convention, the Aarhus Convention and other key accords that address landscape decisionmaking
along democratic principles.


== Topics covered ==
The LED course includes 13 online course sessions available to students at any institution, as well as a 10-days on-site intensive programme available only to students at partner universities.
 
The course utilizes gives students the opportunity to master methods and theories typically not taught in spatial planning
programs like landscape architecture or urban planning. These include: Participant Action Research, service learning, participatory
design, ecological democracy and ecoliteracy. Among the many important professional skills students will acquire in the course is
developing appropriate and effective means of including marginalized or disadvantaged social groups. The students will be
prepared for this in the theoretical phase of the project as we will provide case studies from a variety of cities to provide best
practices for how to engage marginalized groups and include them in the planning process.


== Objectives ==
== Objectives ==
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*promoting empowerment, participation and active citizenship among young people by directly addressing the topic of participation and active citizenship, thus enhancing relevant competences needed for facing social, cultural and environmental challenges in Europe;
*promoting empowerment, participation and active citizenship among young people by directly addressing the topic of participation and active citizenship, thus enhancing relevant competences needed for facing social, cultural and environmental challenges in Europe;
*providing training participation methods in interdisciplinary constellations as a fruitful ground for groundbreaking new ideas for local change.
*providing training participation methods in interdisciplinary constellations as a fruitful ground for groundbreaking new ideas for local change.
== Methodology ==
Competence and experience existing at institutions from different European regions will be brought together in order to conduct
the following activities:
*Basic course (5 ECTS) consisting of online lectures and web-based materials aiming at understanding the theoretical foundations of community-based design, public participation and civic engagement;
*Collaborative course (5 ECTS) during which students cooperate online in international teams, document local challenges and develop new ideas in a collaborative project;
*International intensive programme (5 ECTS) during which students cooperate on site in one of the ‘landscape democracy labs’ at three of the partner universities. These labs are supposed to become local incubators for community-based projects and will sustain beyond the lifetime of the EU grant;
*Development of an online platform that can visualize the project’s impact and assess who is changing their approaches and where. This would be hosted at the Centre for Landscape Democracy;
*Conduct an accompanying research on the subject-specific, pedagogic and cultural implications of the entire project aiming at scientific publication.


== Results ==
== Results ==


The project will have several permanent intellectual outputs, including:
The project has produced several permanent intellectual outputs, including:
*Learning materials compiled by instructors and by student teams. See more in the section '''[[Output_1_-_The_Landscape_Education_for_Democracy_Online_Course|Output 1]]'''
*Learning materials compiled by instructors and by student teams. See more in the section '''[[Output_1_-_The_Landscape_Education_for_Democracy_Online_Course|Output 1]]'''
*A certification system for democracy in landscape planning. See more in the section '''[[Output_2_-_The_LED_Certificate|Output 2]]'''
*A certification system for democracy in landscape planning. See more in the section '''[[Output_2_-_The_LED_Certificate|Output 2]]'''
*A guidance document for instructors at higher education institutions interested in implementing the course in their own context. The LED educatinal methodology is explained in '''[[Output_3_-_The_LED_Process_Report|Output 3]]'''
*A guidance document for instructors at higher education institutions interested in implementing the course in their own context. The LED educatinal methodology is explained in '''[[Output_3_-_The_LED_Process_Report|Output 3]]'''
== Information material and LED resources ==
You can access '''LED lecture resources''' via this link:
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_20479&client_id=hfwu LED 2018 Materials and Recordings] (open access)
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_17766&client_id=hfwu LED 2017 Materials and Recordings] (open access)
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=cat_14575&client_id=hfwu LED 2016 Materials and Recordings] (open access)]
* [[Resources_and_Literature_Landscape_and_Democracy|LED reading list]]
Please visit the documentations of our '''online courses''' for further information:
* [[Seminar_Landscape_Education_for_Democracy_2018|LED Seminar 2018]]
* [[Seminar_Landscape_Education_for_Democracy_2017|LED Seminar 2017]]
* [[Seminar_Landscape_Education_for_Democracy_2016|LED Seminar 2016]]
For further information on the '''intensive study programmes''' please visit the following pages:
* [[LED_Workshop_Törökbalint_2018|LED Workshop Törökbálint, Hungary, 2018]]
* [[LED_Workshop_Kassel_2017|LED Workshop Kassel, Germany, 2017]]
* [[LED_Workshop_Zingonia_2016|LED Workshop Zingonia, Italy, 2016]]
'''LED Publications''' 'Partnering for Landscape Democracy':
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_17850_download&client_id=hfwu Zingonia - Partnering for Landscape Democracy]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_19770_download&client_id=hfwu Kassel - Partnering for Landscape Democracy]
* [https://ilias.hfwu.de/goto.php?target=file_25261_download&client_id=hfwu Törölbálint - Partnering for Landscape Democracy] (all free download)
== ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership Programme ==
[[File:Eu funded led.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The LED - Landscape Education for Democracy Project 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.]]

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Introduction

The landscape belongs to everyone. We should all have equal access to it and a voice in how it is used, valued and maintained. However, spatial planning education rarely includes considerations of democratic processes, participatory planning, community design and landscape stewardship. Furthermore, it does not fully prepare young practioners to become leaders in promoting democratic landscape change and work effectively in partnership with communities.

The idea behind the LED (Landscape Education for Democracy) project, a partnership between 5 European landscape architecture faculties and the LE:NOTRE Institute is to promote awareness and empower young design and planning professionals to become more active in shaping democratic change. 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 course includes 13 online course sessions available to students at any institution, as well as a 10-days on-site intensive programme available only to students at partner universities.

Objectives

To provide a multi-element learning module on landscape and governance in a European context that introduces innovative learning methods of which both learners and educators will benefit. This includes:

  • curricular innovation by introducing landscape and democracy as a cross-disciplinary subject;
  • introduction of interdisciplinary, problem-based learning environments - both online and on site;
  • introduction of highly interactive online learning activities based on constructivist learning theory;
  • further education of teaching staff in the above mentioned areas;
  • local/regional impact of the problem-based learning activities by taking up local problems;
  • mutual learning of all European partners involved, increase of European awareness and diversity appreciation;
  • promoting empowerment, participation and active citizenship among young people by directly addressing the topic of participation and active citizenship, thus enhancing relevant competences needed for facing social, cultural and environmental challenges in Europe;
  • providing training participation methods in interdisciplinary constellations as a fruitful ground for groundbreaking new ideas for local change.

Results

The project has produced several permanent intellectual outputs, including:

  • Learning materials compiled by instructors and by student teams. See more in the section Output 1
  • A certification system for democracy in landscape planning. See more in the section Output 2
  • A guidance document for instructors at higher education institutions interested in implementing the course in their own context. The LED educatinal methodology is explained in Output 3

Information material and LED resources

You can access LED lecture resources via this link:

Please visit the documentations of our online courses for further information:

For further information on the intensive study programmes please visit the following pages:

LED Publications 'Partnering for Landscape Democracy':

ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership Programme

The LED - Landscape Education for Democracy Project 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.
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