LED Online Seminar 2019 - Working Group 3

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Dear working group members. This is your group page and you will be completing the template gradually as we move through the seminar. Good luck and enjoy your collaboration!

Assignment 1 - Reading and Synthesizing Core Terminology

• You can read more details about this assignment here
• Readings are accessible via the resources page

Step 1: Your Landscape Democracy Manifestoes

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  Melissa's manifesto

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  Michel's manifesto

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  Azra's manifesto

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  Paul's manifesto

Step 2: Define your readings

• Please add your readings selection for the terminology exercise before April 24:

A: Landscape and Democracy

Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City (Shaurav Paul)

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff (1980): "By way of conclusion. How to study the landscape" (Michael)

Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): Why is landscape beautiful? (Melissa)

Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. (Azra)

B: Concepts of Participation

Burckhardt, Lucius (1974): Who plans the planning? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012) (Azra)

C: Community and Identity

Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy (Shaurav Paul)

Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes (Michael)

Spirn, Anne (2005): Restoring Mill Creek (Melissa)

D: Designing

Hester, Randolph: Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design (Shaurav Paul)

Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness (Michael)

Smith, Nicola Dawn(2012): Design Charrette: A Vehicle for Consultation or Collaboration (Melissa)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities (Azra)

E: Communicating a Vision

Steps 3 and 4: Concepts Selection and definition

• Each group member selects three relevant concepts derived from his/her readings and synthesize them/publish them on the wiki by May 15, 2019
• Group members reflect within their groups and define their chosen concepts into a shared definition to be posted on the wiki by June 12, 2019.
• Other group members will be able to comment on the definitions until June 30, 2019
• Each group will also report on their process to come to a set of shared definitions of key landscape democracy concepts on the wiki documentation until July 12, 2019

Concepts and definitions

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Author 2: Melissa Zapata

• DISRUPTION & LANDSCAPE: We all have a preconceived idea of landscape with an artistic palette and a charming place. However, this is a personal concept so, what make us all perceived the beauty in the landscape?. Probably is the use of the landscape itself what make us identy with the place. Is the disruption or interaction with a place what let us identify the "hiden rules" common to all of us
• SELF-KNOWLEDGE & LANDSCAPE LITERACY :As long as the community is engage to know about their past and their history in terms of landscape, better are the chances for them to face new, efficient and successful planning for their future. Thereby, having the capacity of reading their landscape though the academic partnership, the Mill Creek neighboors, were able to create extraordinary proposals away of the sense of guilt and resignation
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Author 4: Shaurav Paul

• MENTAL IMAGE: The imageability or the appearance of any city does not fully rely on its design, physical condition, workability or special organization. The inhabitants, users or the outsiders make an environmental image of the city in their mind and navigate there by 5 (five) physical characteristics. Those are Paths (way of movement), Edges (Physical or mental boundary to difference with the surrounding’s boundary), Districts (a piece of cake in the whole city to remember the identity), Nodes (Strategic points of connections, activities or transitions) and Landmarks (external points of reference, which dominates the usual city structures). Planners or designers nowadays consider those factors while building or rebuilding a city for the look of the city. -Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
• RESILIENCY: To achieve the goal of Ecological Democracy in the term of city design, resiliency is the middle factor with enabling and impelling. The present city planners and designers are overlooking the concept of an ecologically sustainable city in means of designing posh, lucrative and technological city. This poor city design is creating “lost community” and nurturing a sense of community is not a prime goal now. But if we really want to make a city, where people can live with social, ecological and communal balance, we have to input the equation of creating ecological democracy in city planning. When a city and its landscape are ready to stand with short term disasters besides of creating a social connection (enabling) and a place of personal feeling (impelling), the city must stand out ahead rather than the so-called “Designed City” - Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy

Step 6: Revised manifestoes

• please look again at your initial manifestoes and update them with any new aspects/prespectives you have taken up during this seminar

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Assignment 2 - Your Landscape Symbols

• You can read more details about this assignment here

Landscape Symbols Author 1: Melissa

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  This image represents a place where anyone can have access to nature and landscape. Symbols, then, are open spaces without predetermined uses and without absolute pretensions.Symbolos are places or objects that allow the user to create their own meaning of use and their own experience

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  This image represents the symbols as objects in space that allows interaction between citizens and visitors.In this place, new and individual worlds and spaces are recreated in common places. The symbols are portals of interaction, imagination and fusion between the human being and the landscape

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  This space allows the interaction between cultures, people and history. This, a strategic place in Stuttgart, seeks not only to represent the historical and cultural legacy of the city, but invites its inhabitants to enjoy the landscape, invites also to find different activities around an emblematic place and with it, allows to leave a memory of the symbols in the landscape

Landscape Symbols Author 2: Michael

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  This is the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna in Italy. It’s pretty simple but on this picture we can have a overview of buildings (arranged a fiew undred years ago by men) and people enjoying life in this square. It’s a place where people share, talk communicate and have a good time. Nowadays, it is a social place. Even if the building was built a long time ago it serves now a public purpose with a view on the piazza. These building physically enclose the piazza but there are still some openings with to let people walk freely. There are also some events quite frequently that people from everywhere can enjoy.)

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  This is a park located in Liège in Belgium. This park shows a playground where children can play and also where old people can seat around, have a walk. This is a place where people can really enjoy life, have a drink and just relax. As said just before, this place is shared by diffrent generations and so it is a good way to share their knoldege

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  Located in Tilff, a small village in Belgium, this is again a public place where you can see bars all around. There are some events organised quite often but this common space is a smaller scale than the other public spaces but I chose this one because, I already enjoyed a few events there. For me it is a symbol of democracy because before making any changement on this public space, the local inhabitants are requested to talk about the projects the want to do there. The final decision it take by representatives chosen by the local people.

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Landscape Symbols Author 3: Azra Haracic

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  Stari Most, Old Bridge, is located in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. It is a rebuilt 16th-century Ottoman bridge that crosses the river Neretva and connects the two parts of the city. The Old Bridge stood for 427 years, until it was destroyed on 9 November 1993 by Croat military forces during the Croat–Bosnian War. Subsequently, a project was set in motion to reconstruct it; the rebuilt bridge opened on 23 July 2004.

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  The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, he created it on the east bank of the Danube River with sculptor Gyula Pauer to honour the Jews who were killed by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

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  Ajvatovica is the largest Islamic traditional, religious and cultural event in Europe. It is located near Prusac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was named after Ajvaz Dede (Grandfather Ajvaz), a pious Muslim working to enlighten the population and achieve progress in the area.

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Landscape Symbols Author 4: Shaurav Paul

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  This is the center space of Stuttgart Messe. Here, the people are always busy with conference, exhibition or trade fair type corporate and artificial looking things. But within this place, there are some soft corners- justified with trees and natures. It shows us that nothing is perfect without a touch of nature.

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  Those are the foliage of trees in a reserved forest at Stuttgart. All of the foliage have covered the sky and they have also maintained their own territory respectively. They never conflict with others territory but also represent their own status.

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  This is a part of Stuttgart U-Garden project. Here, we can see the perfect juxtaposition of Nature, Landscape and Man-made built form. Every important element of the environment are all together in here. People live here, work here, do their recreational activity here.

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Assignment 3 - Role Play on Landscape Democracy "movers and shakers"

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Assignment 4 - Your Landscape Democracy Challenge

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• Each group member will specify a landscape democracy challenge in his/her environment

Landscape Democracy Challenge 1

• Give a title to your challenge
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  caption: why did you select this case?

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  caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)

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  caption: what is the issue/conflict (2)

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  caption: who are the actors?

Your references:

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Landscape Democracy Challenge 2

• Give a title to your challenge
• Yourname challenge 1.jpg

  caption: why did you select this case?

• Yourname challenge 2.jpg

  caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)

• Yourname challenge 3.jpg

  caption: what is the issue/conflict (2)

• Yourname challenge 4.jpg

  caption: who are the actors?

Your references:

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Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

• Give a title to your challenge
• Yourname challenge 1.jpg

  caption: why did you select this case?

• Yourname challenge 2.jpg

  caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)

• Yourname challenge 3.jpg

  caption: what is the issue/conflict (2)

• Yourname challenge 4.jpg

  caption: who are the actors?

Your references:

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Landscape Democracy Challenge 4

• Give a title to your challenge
• Yourname challenge 1.jpg

  caption: why did you select this case?

• Yourname challenge 2.jpg

  caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)

• Yourname challenge 3.jpg

  caption: what is the issue/conflict (2)

• Yourname challenge 4.jpg

  caption: who are the actors?

Your references:

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Your Democratic Change Process

• Add Title
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Reflection

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Conclusion:

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Your references

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