LED Online Seminar 2018 - Working Group 3

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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

Step 2: Define your readings

  • Please add your readings selection for the terminology exercise before April 18:

A: Landscape and Democracy


The Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Sirine Jebali)

The European Landscape Convention (Hamid Gohari)

Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City (Asif Adnan)

B: Concepts of Participation

Sanoff, Henry (2014): Multiple Views of Participatory Design, Focus (Hamid Gohari)

Day, Christopher (2002): Consensus Design (Asif Adnan)

C: Community and Identity


Hester, Randolph (2006): Design for Ecological Democracy, The MIT Press (Sirine Jebali)

Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.(Hamid Gohari)

Nassauer, Joan Iverson (1995): Culture and Changing Landscape Structure, Landscape Ecology, vol. 10 no. 4.(Asif Adnan)


D: Designing


Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness (Sirine Jebali)


E: Communicating a Vision

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

Author 1: Asif Adnan

  • Imageability: On a vast scale, a city is a construction in space. Citizens hold the mental image of a city. Identity, Structure and meaning are the three concepts of a city. It is a two-way process between the observer and observed. Urban space is not just composed of its physical characteristics but equally by representations in mental images. People and their activities are as important as the static physical parts of a city thus creating its imageability. (The Image of the City: Kevin Lynch)
  • Combining users and Professionals to get the whole picture : Physical substances, Life and time inhabitants, Moods and Emotions and the spirit creates the overall meaning of a place. Users see the near picture of it through their day to day life experience while avoiding the overview. Whereas for the professionals, it works in the other way around. For this, a combination of these two class is necessary for a design which should involve players and community where the first one sees the possibility and the other sees the loss. This leads to a consensus design approach which can bring a positive change in both materialistic and spiritual aspect of a place. (Consensus Design: Christopher Day)
  • Cultural principle through experimenting landscape at human scale: Cultural principles affects landscape ecology. Again, human values are influenced by landscape and in turn affect the landscape through the means of cultural conventions. It's not necessary for the cultural concept to match with the scientific concept of the landscape. Culture and landscape are thus internally connected. Studying landscape at a human scale leads to the exploration of deeper cultural principles which is essential for a greater perception of nature. (Culture and changing landscape structure: Joan Iverson Nassauer)


Author 2: Hamid Gohari

  • Wishing enjoyable landscape: This treaty is formulated in four chapter and explained different aspects, rules, responsibilities, scopes, and aims of the European landscape. What seems like the main concept in this convention is making a balance between nature and built environment through protecting, international cooperation, awareness raising, training and education, assessment, and monitoring of the implementation. (The European Landscape Convention).
  • Real democracy, sustainable planning: For decades, there is a main concern among experts and social activates which how to make it possible for people to be involved in planning and design projects; for that regard, they tried many methods and techniques like CI, CDC, ABCD, etc. and also set the vision statement as a dialog between citizens and public official. But this important aim, involving people in projects, would be possible only if we prepared a participatory framework at the local level. (Sanoff, Henry (2014): Multiple Views of Participatory Design).
  • Cinematoscape: One of the most important parts of the film industry is landscape which is referred as the setting. Landscapes in the movie are carefully selected or constructed, and depending on the genre, movies need a different level of landscape authenticity.The landscape of a movie should have all the elements that help to narrate the film's story. In the other words, all the formal, functional, and meaning of the real landscape must be present in the film. The fact that in the movie of "Beasts of the Southern Wild" was well presented. For instance, the cultural and social aspects of the landscape: social relationships, rules, limitations and etc. of the inhabitants of the island, the formal and functional aspects: nature, houses, natural disasters and etc. Therefore, it is a combination of landscape elements that give credit to a movie. (Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014).

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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

Assignment 2 - Your Landscape Symbols

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Landscape Symbols Author 1: Asif Adnan

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Landscape Symbols Auther 3: ...

Landscape Symbols Author 4: Sirine Jebali

Landscape Symbols Author 5: Luis Solano

Assignment 3 - Role Play on Landscape Democracy "movers and shakers"

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Assignment 4 - Your Landscape Democracy Challenge

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  • Each group member will specify a landscape democracy challenge in his/her environment

Landscape Democracy Challenge 1

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Landscape Democracy Challenge 2

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Landscape Democracy Challenge 3

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Landscape Democracy Challenge 4

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Landscape Democracy Challenge 5

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Assignment 5 - Your Democratic Change Process

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  • 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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