Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2026
Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,
We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!
- Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
- Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
- Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?
Then participate in the Open Landscape Academy seminars: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.
Upcoming online seminar:
- Our next open online seminar will start on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 and finishes on June 16, 2026
- Live sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST
- In addition, we will meet weekly from 12 00 - 13 00 CEST for discussion and recap, and involvement of participants from other time zones
- Meet our team
- The 2026 onsite programme (optional) will take place in Guimarães Portugal, from May 4 - 9, 2026 as part of the Landscape Forum and the CABULAND project.
- We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
- For any further information please email us under info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org
- For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: Towards the Open Landscape Academy
Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation
Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online 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.
It is one of three components of the Open Landscape Academy, a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.
The other two parts of OLA are:
- 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
The question driving our project is: How do we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation?
Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.
The OLA's biggest 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.
We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.
The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.
For more information on the Open Landscape Academy and its Charta of Values please visit:
Learning Objectives
- Please visit our Learning Objectives over view page.
Assignments and Course Requirements
- Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
- Participation in the OLA working groups
- Completion of the course assignment
- Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion
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