Seminar Landscape Education for Democracy 2018

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Then participate in the LED Program – an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.

• Our next open online seminar will start mid of March 2018.
• The dates for the intensive study programme 2018 in Hungary will be updated soon.
• For any further information please email us under info(at)led-project.org

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 practcioners 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. The project employs interdisciplinary, problem-based learning environments and curricular innovation to introduce landscape and democracy as a cross-disciplinary subject. 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 starts this spring featuring a 12 online course sessions available to students at any institution, as well as a two-week summer on-site intensive programme available only to students at partner universities.

The 2017 LED intensive programme will be organised by Kassel University in Germany.

Information material and LED resources

Our information materials for the upcoming 2018 course are currently being updated.

You can access LED lecture resources via this link:

• LED lecture resources (open access
• LED reading list

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

• LED Seminar 2017
• LED Seminar 2016

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

• LED Workshop Kassel, Germany, 2017
• LED Workshop Zingonia, Italy, 2016

LED in action - some impressions from the Kassel workshop 2017

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  Meeting the local community in Kassel Nordstadt

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  Meeting the photo group of Kassel Nordstadt

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  Photo voice

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  Preparing for the visioning chairs method

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  Meeting the community in the local mosque

Course schedule and content for 2018

Online seminar: March-May 2018

The online module consists of twelve 90-minute sessions of lectures, reading materials, collaborative group work, concept mapping, storyboarding and other diverse active and passive learning tools.

The 2018 schedule will be made available in February 2018.

Themes covered in the course are:

• Landscape and democracy
• Participation theories and practices
• Community and identity
• The design process
• Communication and representation

Registration

• The registration will open in January 2018.

Conditions for participation and credits

Participation in the online seminar is free and open to students at any institution as well as the general public.

There are no registration fees. Participation is possible in active or passive mode.

Active participation includes:

• regular attendance of the online class (or working with the seminar recordings in due time)
• completion of the seminar coursework and group assignments
• academic recognition of up to 5 ECTS

Passive participation includes:

• visitation of online seminar sessions either in real time or through video recordings;
• no academic recognition granted

Further information

• please contact info(at)led-project.org

Our partnership

Grant holder and coordinator

• NMBU, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning

Project partners

• Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Nürtingen, Germany
• University of Kassel School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, Kassel, Germany
• Szent István University, Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
• University of Bologna, Department of Architecture, Italy
• LE:NOTRE Institute, an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands.

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.