LED Online Seminar 2018 - Working Group 13
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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
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Louis Chiteri's manifesto
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Andrea's manifesto
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Benoit's manifesto
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Mozhdeh's manifesto
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Simon's Manifesto
Step 2: Define your readings
- Please add your readings selection for the terminology exercise before April 18:
A: Landscape and Democracy
- The european landscape convention (2000) (Benoit Zachelin)
B: Concepts of Participation
- Hester, Randolph (2005): Whose Politics, Landscape Architecture (Andrea Haave Jenssen)
- Arnstein, Sherry R.(1969): A Ladder of Citizen Participation, JAIP, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Benoit Zachelin)
C: Community and Identity
- Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.(Andrea Haave Jenssen)
D: Designing
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2013): Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities (Andrea Haave Jenssen)
E: Communicating a Vision
- Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR). Flyer about their activities connected to the river. City walk, environmental education, and other water-related activities could be searched on their websites. (Benoit Zachelin)
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 9, 2018
- Group members reflect within their groups and define their chosen concepts into a shared definition to be posted on the wiki by June 6, 2018.
- Other group members will be able to comment on the definitions until June 12, 2018
- 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 June 20, 2018
Concepts and definitions
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Step 5: Reflection
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
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Author's updated manifesto
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Author's updated manifesto
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Author's updated manifesto
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Author's updated manifesto
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Author's updated manifesto
Assignment 2 - Your Landscape Symbols
- You can read more details about this assignment here
Landscape Symbols Author 1: Andrea Haave Jenssen
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The brand of the coffeeshop starbucks, A symbol of commersialization, homogenization and beginning gentrification in the old city of oslo, when the chain first opened in the area the glass to the shop was broken several times in the first period it was present, now it is actively being used by the multicultural inhabitants of the area and in a way represents both resignition to the ongoing processes and a will to keep the particularness of the area by taking ownership of the place and making it their own, picture from Oslo
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Grafitti on a house wall at Grønland, a symbol of crime, troubled youth and powerty. A result of little to do and spaces to be, lack of free activities to spend time doing and good urban spaces, picture from Oslo
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Losæter is an urban farm in oslo that started as an art project and this is the bakinghouse there, Losæter is a symbol of the history of the area being agricultural land, culture, and multicultural society by including a bakingoven from the middle east inside the bakehouse, picture from Oslo
Landscape Symbols Author 2: Benoit Zachelin
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This is a symbol of close to the river. This planning on the landscape allow the population to the create a social link between the people. This is very important to create the link. This is close to the river Seine in Paris. With this, we can also see different parts of city history.
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Railway station symbol of time and mouvement, industrial revolution, new discovery, material and land. This is the railway building at Budapest. Keleti station.
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Sidewalk managed by neighbourhood, symbol of local democracy and flowering city uses the gardening for express a feeling, an emotion on the street. Forest, Brussels
Landscape Symbols Author 3: Chiteri Louis Faber
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UHURU GARDENS,Mzee Jomo Kenyatta,first president of Kenya, was inaugurated here, and so was the first instance of hoisting the Kenyan flag. It is the only memorial park that symbolizes Kenya’s struggle for independence. The site still remains a unifying emblem among the residents of the country with it’s monuments that stand in the garden to date. In present day, the park is seen as a place to seek refuge away from the city’s buzz and hostility. The park is a symbol peace, love and unity
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NAIROBI BOMB BLAST MEMORIAL GARDEN. The park stands on the site of the former US embassy and serves to commemorate the dead and the survivors of the bomb blast of 1998. In it is a wall with the names of the victims of the tragedy as the main monument. The park also features a designed landscape currently permitted to users at a small cost. It currently serves as a place for relaxation away from the city’s chaotic atmosphere
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MOUMT KENYA.Mt. Kenya is a snow capped volcanic mountain in the equitorial of the earth, located in the cetral region of kenya, Nanyuki to be precise. The mountain holds symbolic value in that during the precolonial period, the tribe living adjecent to it, the Kikuyu, attached their religious belief to the mountain. According to their history, the mountain wa their place of origin and belived that God resided there. The mountain was a shine and they prayed facing it. Currently, the mountain acts as a tourist attraction site and still an important feature in the history of the still existing Kikuyu tribe
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Water is the origin of all creatures the great mother is in the rain
Landscape Symbols Author 5: Simon M.
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Cologne city. The Icecreamwaffle represents from my perspective instant consumption with a bit of sweetness, but as it is upsite down with components of a consumption collaps, in the shopping center. Shopping
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Kassel, Wilhemshöher Allee. The picture shows magnificent and to look upon something, the Hercules statue represents strenght and power. In Addition the public transport tram tracks represent a more democratic way for transportation. In addition you see the paved road as a more individualistic way of transportation means
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Königsallee Düsseldorf. Interaction between nature and landscape use in an urban environment. Sealed ground, bridge and artificial water construction (straighten river course).
Assignment 3 - Role Play on Landscape Democracy "movers and shakers"
- You can read more details about this assignment here
Assignment 4 - Your Landscape Democracy Challenge
- You can read more details about this assignment here
- Each group member will specify a landscape democracy challenge in his/her environment
Landscape Democracy Challenge 1
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caption: why did you select this case?
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caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)
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Landscape Democracy Challenge 2
- Give a title to your challenge
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caption: why did you select this case?
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caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)
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caption: what is the issue/conflict (2)
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caption: who are the actors?
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Landscape Democracy Challenge 3
- Give a title to your challenge
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caption: why did you select this case?
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caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)
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Landscape Democracy Challenge 4
- Give a title to your challenge
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caption: why did you select this case?
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caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)
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Landscape Democracy Challenge 5
- Give a title to your challenge
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caption: why did you select this case?
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caption: what is the issue/conflict (1)
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Assignment 5 - Your Democratic Change Process
- You can read more details about this assignment here
- After documenting and reflecting on your challenges you will continue jointly with one of these challenges and design a democratic change process
Your Democratic Change Process
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Reflection
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Conclusion:
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