Assignment 3: Your Landscape Democracy Challenge

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Time frame

Weeks 1 – 8: 31.03. - 19.05.2016

Based on your theoretical reflection of the multifaceted relationship between landscape and democracy you are now invited to identify landscape democracy challenges in the everyday environment in a community of your choosing.
This can be a recent or planned project that raised public concern at either a local or 'regional' landscape process affected by broader political, socio-cultural, economic or environmental driving force.
The aim of this assignment is not to find a solution, but to act as a researcher to identify, analyze, synthesize and communicate the challenge you have chosen to understand and its cause-effect relationships. later in the course you will be asked to developing strategies and models for change, addressed in assignment assignment 5.

Individual work: Landscape Challenge Wiki template to be completed (graphics, short texts) by 12th of May 2016
Group work:Reflection on differences and similarities between the cases, prepare group presentation and present findings in plenary on 19th of May 2016

Quality of individual documentation, completeness, visual representation of status, risks, cause-effect relationships, timely submission
Quality and depth of cross-cutting analysis in the group
Quality of oral presentation (i.e. keeping time limits, clarity, quality of presentation slides)