LED Online Seminar 2019 - Working Group 9

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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 24:

A: Landscape and Democracy

Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. English language ed. London: Spon Press. (Michela Madiotto)

B: Concepts of Participation

Gaventa, John: The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Experts (Raphaela Roming)

Hester, Randolph (2005): Whose Politics, Landscape Architecture (Michela Madiotto)


C: Community and Identity

Francis, Mark: A Case Study Method for Landscape Architecture (Raphaela Roming)

Welk Von Mossner, Alexa (2014): Cinematic Landscapes, In: Topos, No. 88, 2014.(Zasim Uddin Tuhin)


D: Designing

Salgado, Mariana, et al. (2015): Designing with Immigrants (Raphaela Roming)

Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness (Michela Madiotto)

Pritzker Prize winning architect Alejandro Aravena on sustainable design and community involvement in Chile (Zasim Uddin Tuhin)

Woodcraft, Saffron, et al.: Design for Social Sustainability: A Framework for Creating Thriving New Communities (Majeda)

E: Communicating a Vision

Boer, Florian, Jens Jorritsma, and Dirk van Peijpe. 2010. De Urbanisten and the wondrous water square. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. Webpage and Video (Zasim Uddin Tuhin)

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 15, 2019
  • Group members reflect within their groups and define their chosen concepts into a shared definition to be posted on the wiki by June 12, 2019.
  • Other group members will be able to comment on the definitions until June 30, 2019
  • 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 July 12, 2019

Concepts and definitions

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Author 3: Michela Madiotto

  • Hester, Randolph: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sustainable Happiness-Our affluence has empowered us to consume nonrenewable resources at alarming rates. We have seemingly gained freedom from environmental constraints through technology, standardization and specialization. We no longer experience ecological dependence or community connections in our daily lives. Our disassociation from the world around us offers us enormous short-term freedom. We talk about anomia. Anomie in this case refers to the state of confusion individuals and society feel about how to act toward their community and landscape. Our most realistic goal is to pursue sustainability with enough substantive and holistic insight that our pursuit can be sustained. Pursuing sustainability will require us to reformulate our premises about the best possible life we can achieve. To effect this transformation, the form of the city must enable us to act where we are now debilitated. This metamorphosis must be guided by three distinctive traits: enabling form, resilient form and impelling form.
  • Hester, Randolph (2005): Whose Politics, Landscape Architecture-No landscape architectural design is ever implemented without political activity. Every act of city making, landscape architecture and environmental planning is a direct act to achieve some political end and to support power and authority. The test describes five types of designer postures that illustrate political stances. The Blissfully Naïve do not see the connectedness of systems beyond their landscape architecture. For The Blissfully Naïve the design of the landscape really be separated from the decision about its location. They are so focused on the form making of objects that they are blind to the impacts of their actions. Second are the Savvy Naïve who are more aware of connectedness. They understand the political implications of their design work but claim ignorance. They are active accomplices to political power but they say they are “just designers”. The third type is the Servant. Servant understand and often support the normative political agendas of their clients. The power of these clients is attractive because it enables the designer's art, most of which is rather mundane The Servant role can be particularly profitable for the business-oriented landscape architect. The fourth type is the contextualist. Contextualist will try to address broader social issues within the bounds of polite politics. Catalysts, the fifth type, are landscape architectural agents of change, the group usually considered activist designers. Consider four focuses of catalyst designers: environmental justice, deep democracy, cultural and biological diversity and radical sustainability.
  • Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. English language ed. London: Spon Press.-One of the central lines of analysis to accompany the reading of Thomas Sieverts Cities without cities is represented by the correlation between diffusion and fragmentation of settlements and the processes of globalisation. Although the irrefutability of this statement probably warrants some ulterior element of evaluation, the fact remains that actually we are witnessing a proliferation of studies and research on the post-Keynesian landscape of the city that from diverse points of view, are inclined to highlight the relation that exists between the transformations which occur at a regional level and the process of capitalist accretion. A relation taking place in a context of immense elasticity and mobility of capital, a relation that characterizes the process of globalisation of markets, finance, production and employment. Nevertheless, if the relevant fact actually seems to be that of a growing interest on the part of territorial disciplines, of geography and sociology on the themes of diffused settlements and of social fragmentation that are related, they cannot not be considered like they have been for a long time, marginalized or misunderstood by the urban planning culture, in particular the European one.

Author 4: Majeda Khatun

  • Woodcraft, Saffron, et al.: Design for Social Sustainability: A Framework for Creating Thriving New Communities: ‘Where are the PEOPLE?’ social sustainability can be defined as a ‘connectivity’ between people with its different human parameters. It is different from environmental sustainability. Social sustainability has many folds. Along with the infrastructural support for the community, it also enhance and engage the people of the community, providing support for social and cultural life. Sometimes often, spaces and services for people which evolves along with the people. To make it work, specialists from different pedagogies require to engage for the development framework. In this write up relationship between different elements of social sustainability were well explained and also a brief and clear list of the amenities for society is provided
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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

  • You can read more details about this assignment here

Landscape Symbols Author 1: Zasim Uddin Tuhin

Landscape Symbols Author 2: Raphaela Roming

Landscape Symbols Author 3: Michela Madiotto

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Landscape Symbols Author 4: Majeda Khatun

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

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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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Your Democratic Change Process

Reflection

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