Democratic Landscape Transformation 2024 - Team 2
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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?
Marius Wolf
- civil engineer and permaculture designer from Germany, having lived in Indonesia and Portugal, sharing a passion for developing inspiring and regenerative landscapes (that’s the WHY for currently studying IMLA).
Marica Ruggiero
- University student of the Building Engineering-Architecture course, I was born and raised in Southern Italy and I moved to the city of Bologna to study, facing a new life path with a passion for architecture, urban planning and landscape
Katerina Tsoni
- Undergraduate student in the Agricultural University of Athens, with a specialization in Floriculture and Landscape Architecture. I grew up in Athens, Greece. Despite Greece being the "homeland" of Democracy, the landscape, especially the urban one, is not very democratic.
Khadija Sarwar
- I graduated in Architectural Engineering from Pakistan, I was born in Pakistan and completed my whole education period till bachelors in my homeland. I chose landscape to pursue study because Pakistan is facing big issues related to climate change, so I want to add minor value, being a part of my country.
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.
- TEDx : Water and Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKUA7iJZwo)
- Marica Ruggiero: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGDId7ynfI/CTOfxg8t2dqW9LVmN2tGGw/edit
- Khadija sarwar:
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)
- Index.php?title=File:Concept Map Katerina .png
Please finish with a short reflection
- What are the similarities and differences in your team regarding your understanding of what democratic landscape transformation is? Each of us within the team expressed our own personal concept of landscape democracy, delving into crucial aspects such as definitions, values, individuals involved, management, and goals of this issue. Through shared reflection, each person contributed to outlining a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of what landscape democracy means, enriching it with unique perspectives from their own personal experiences and knowledge: some paid more attention to a social perspective, some treated the topic more from an ecological perspective, some focused on the concept of law, and some looked more at the aspect of biodiversity. In the end, however, the overall picture turns out to be complete and shared by all group members.
- In how far did the seminar lectures and readings help you to clarify this?
- What will you take home from this seminar?