Towards the Open Landscape Academy

s an action research project, we make this an emergent preliminary research question: ie the co-creation of 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, privileging the perspectives of underserved, landscape democracy/challenged community.

The model builds on the experiences matured during the LED and 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.