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''Every design action is a political act. Whose politics will we style?'' | |||
--Randy Hester, "Declaration of Interdependence," the Landscape Architecture Foundation | |||
What's the Open Landscape Academy (OLD) and why should you, as a student of design and planning disciplines, be part of it? | |||
Open Landscape Academy is a three part project launching in April 2023 and stretching over more than a year, including: | |||
* A semester-long online educational seminar presented by a team of practitioners from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world | |||
* Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar | |||
* Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented | |||
What's the Open Landscape Academy's philosophy? | |||
This is an action research project, which means that our team of instructors are learning and experimenting as much as our students are. The basic question the project focuses on is how we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation. The goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy. | |||
The OLA model builds on the experiences matured during two previous projects, Landscape Education for Democracy (LED) and its successor, LED2LEAP projects, but is now open to a more expansive partnership to include all communities of practice involved in promoting systemic change that benefits individuals and ecosystems. | |||
The project output is threefold: it consists of an educational experience, or intensive summer workshops where the semester-long online seminar learning is tested in complex landscape change settings, and the through the year-long work of local Living Labs where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented. | The project output is threefold: it consists of an educational experience, or intensive summer workshops where the semester-long online seminar learning is tested in complex landscape change settings, and the through the year-long work of local Living Labs where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented. | ||
Revision as of 19:05, 15 March 2023
Every design action is a political act. Whose politics will we style?
--Randy Hester, "Declaration of Interdependence," the Landscape Architecture Foundation
What's the Open Landscape Academy (OLD) and why should you, as a student of design and planning disciplines, be part of it?
Open Landscape Academy is a three part project launching in April 2023 and stretching over more than a year, including:
- A semester-long online educational seminar presented by a team of practitioners from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world
- Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
- Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented
What's the Open Landscape Academy's philosophy?
This is an action research project, which means that our team of instructors are learning and experimenting as much as our students are. The basic question the project focuses on is how we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation. The goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.
The OLA model builds on the experiences matured during two previous projects, Landscape Education for Democracy (LED) and its successor, LED2LEAP projects, but is now open to a more expansive partnership to include all communities of practice involved in promoting systemic change that benefits individuals and ecosystems.
The project output is threefold: it consists of an educational experience, or intensive summer workshops where the semester-long online seminar learning is tested in complex landscape change settings, and the through the year-long work of local Living Labs where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented.