LED Online Seminar 2019 - Working Group 1

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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

Step 2: Define your readings

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

A: Landscape and Democracy

  • Thi Mai Hanocq - The European Landscape Convention

B: Concepts of Participation

  • Nayan Jee- Hester, Randolph (2005): Whose Politics
  • Thi Mai Hanocq - Consensus Design
  • Tatiana Rodriguez Giesso- Hester, Randolph: A refrain with a view
  • Raquel Mego - Sanof, Henry (2014): Multiple Views of Participatory Design, Focus

C: Community and Identity

  • Nayan Jee- Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes
  • Raquel Mego - Spirn, Anne: Resting Mill Creek

D: Designing

  • Thi Mai Hanocq - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness
  • Raquel Mego - Hester, Randolph: Democratic Drawing - Techniques for Participatory Design
  • Smith, Nicola Dawn(2012): Design Charrette: A Vehicle for Consultation or Collaboration

E: Communicating a Vision

  • Nayan Jee- 'Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu
  • Tatiana Rodriguez Giesso - Case study - Water Square Benthemplein

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

Author 1: Thi Mai Hanocq

  • Europe Landscape Convention

- definition of the landscape - its identification in order to protect, manage and develop it - policy and interveners : "Landscape quality objectives" - Cooperation for a better effectiveness --> international programs

  • Consensus design

In the consensus design, the essence of situation is a common starting point, then comes the mood atmosphere which results from the essence of situation, then the time relationships agree chat is appropriate to moods and the physical substance results from the mood and the time relationships. During all the process, everything is dispassionately clear, all fits together and there is no argument

  • Resilient cities

- Sustainable - Focused on nature, green transport, ... - adapted activities - renewable energy, materials,... - integration of the community - human size and adaptibility

Author 2: Raquel Mego Arellan

  • Building a participatory democracy

Looking forward the empowerment of the community by involving the participation of the citizen and increasing sense of community among the population. One of the steps is to linked the sense of community with the place attachment at the individual and community scale, using design process that allows for social interaction and publicly affirming community values. For that reason, sense of community has become a key planning goal because citizens strive to solve community problems.

  • Environmental Justice for Inner-cities neighbourhoods
  • Non-verbal techniques forward a democratic landscape design:

In order to transform the non-spatial research, community designers use different methods to represent and design appropriately for people. For what designers and citizens needed mutual empathy and a common language to visualize the most profound synthesis of the situation and solve the real problem. Building Community Experientially and Mapping Sacred Landscapes are one of the most attractive techniques, emphasizing the experience of the place, by workshops and walking tours, and recognizing valuable places in the city.

Author 3: Tatiana Rodriguez Giesso

  • Public design for democracy

The "Charette" design gives everyone a vote and decision. It gives a voice to everyone, and can come to great solutions for certain issues, from people that maybe don't have a degree, or are legally capacitated to design/decide things in other areas, but have great ideas and can contribute to a big decision.

  • Community participation over justice

Advocacy alone can't solve justice, It need community participation. Justice needs a part close to power and a part close to the neighbors. Sometimes advocacy doesn't take into account everyone's needs, just a selected group; and every different group inside the society has to be heard, and not left behind, or be discriminated.

  • Building an identity through sustainability

In this particular case, Rotterdam made its water squares for storing water a public place, that is enabled for playing and enjoying while dry, and when filled with water too, as a semi lake. The concept found in this project is that ecology doesn't has to be just for aiding the environment, It can be enjoyed too, and it can make people conscious about what is happening in our planet; and it also creates an identity for the city that is caring for the world's health.

Author 4: Nayan Jee

  • Hester, Randolph (2005): Whose Politics- Five types of political stances followed by Landscape Architects, 1. Blissfully Naive- Believes design and politics as separate, 2. Savvy Naive- Takes side with the powerful, 3. Servants- Does everything the client asks for, 4. Contextualists- Takes sustainability into account and work, and 5. Catalysts- Shows the courage to challenge the establishment and are "Agents for real change or impact".
  • Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes- An existing landscape can add meaning to a fictional film. Beasts of the Southern Wild. The fictional island of “Isle de Charles Doucet” threatened by erosion, hurricanes, and rising sea levels. It serves both the film and the site, bringing up the concerned/critical issues in the form of storytelling.
  • 'Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu- Visual and experiential aspects of the landscape. Reading Landscape- Character, Characteristics, Elements, Features, and Characterisation. Importance of sketching the landscape for analyzing and strategy making.

Step 5: Reflection

During a project impacting the landscape, we noticed that it is important to take into account the opinions of everyone. Indeed, for example, it is interesting to build a participatory democracy because it allows to increase the sense of community, create social interactions and develop community values. Another example is the “Charette” design which gives everyone a vote and decision so that, everyone can tell his opinion even if initially they are not the ones in charge of the project. However, even if it is important to consider everyone’s idea, it has to be done in the right way during the development of the project. Indeed, the consensus design gives better results than democracy as, in democracy, we should consider everyone’s idea very precise so, it is more difficult to find an agreement that satisfied everybody, while in the consensus design, the agreements are done step by step (first the essence of situation, then the mood atmosphere, then the physical substance…) so, the “dilemmas” are easier to resolve as the decisions to take are more logical (for example, the colour of a room depends on the function/mood agreed previously). We also noticed that nowadays, the sustainability is well developed in the cities, as the contextualists landscape architects does (they take sustainability into account). For example, there are the resilient cities focused to be sustainable, focused on nature, green transport, … but also on the renewable energy, the materials good for the environment, … Another example is the city of Rotterdam where the squares are designed to be able to store water when needed, and the users can enjoy the space both when it is dry or filled with water. This allies sustainability, comfort and also build the identity.

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

Assignment 2 - Your Landscape Symbols

  • You can read more details about this assignment here

Landscape Symbols Author 1: Thi Mai Hanocq

Landscape Symbols Author 2: Tatiana Rodriguez Giesso

Landscape Symbols Author 3: Raquel Mego Arellan

Landscape Symbols Author 4: Nayan Jee

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: Thi Mai Hanocq

Your references:

Landscape Democracy Challenge 2: Raquel Mego Arellan

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Landscape Democracy Challenge 3 Tatiana Rodriguez Giesso

Your references:

Landscape Democracy Challenge 4 "Landscape in Education" Nayan Jee

Your references:

  • SMITHSONIAN.COM in Sepetember 21, 2015
  • THE NATIONAL in February 18, 2017
  • MHRD, India website

Your Democratic Change Process

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