Democratic Landscape Transformation 2024 - Team 7

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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?

• Hello, I'm Gabriele Lione from Italy. I come from the northern part of Italy in which Italian and german are spoken, but I can also speak English. I am stdying Engineering/Architecture in Bologna and this is my 5th year.
• team member 2
• This is Nyaz Othman from Iraqi Kurdistan. I am Kurdish and my mother tangue is Kurdish. I studied Architecture and Urban Planning. I am currently a student in the IMLA program.
• I'm Gabriele Barbaro an Italian student enrolled in the 5th year of the Building Engineering-Architecture program. I was born in a southern region of Italy but have mostly lived in the north, thus coming into contact with environments that have a strong commitment to innovation and sustainability, while also being aware of the challenges and contexts where such commitments are less prevalent. I am pursuing a multidisciplinary education in Building Engineering-Architecture. This program, which combines both theory and practice, allows me to bring an approach that merges design with a focus on sustainability and innovative building technologies.

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.

• Gabriele Lione https://drive.google.com/file/d/19wiHEiJqFXEziu_YsjFIT3ScalAftruc/view?usp=drive_link
• manifesto 2
• NYAZ OTHMAN https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I9CmsjkCTnzc8yYVO76oewUatknnep1U/view?usp=sharing
• Gabriele Barbaro: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xtKif9oT_b00UMzZSyXSkV2ykX3VAnWs/view?usp=sharing

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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Please finish with a short reflection

• What are the similarities and differences in your team regarding your understanding of what democratic landscape transformation is?
• In how far did the seminar lectures and readings help you to clarify this?
• What will you take home from this seminar?