Minutes and Materials LED Session 1 - April 5, 2017

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Session topic

Phase A. Landscape and Democracy - Mapping the Terrain A.1 Concepts of democracy: Evolution and perspectives

• Session date: Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 15 30 - 17 00 CEST

Agenda

• LED project introduction by Dr Deni Ruggeri, NMBU Norway
• Thematic input: Concepts of democracy: Evolution and perspectives by Dr Ellen Fetzer, HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen
• Interactive part
• Seminar sequence and assignments

Session slides and recordings

• you can access the slides and recordings here session materials (open access)

Interactive part

• Poll on the question How would you describe the political system of the country in which you have grown up?

Synopsis of participants' answers

• Collecting jointly the adantages and disadvantages of democracy models

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  Representative democracy

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  Direct democracy

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  Deliberative democracy

Next steps for active participants

Assignment 1 - Reading and Synthesizing Core Terminology

• Read the detailed description of this assignment
• Start checking the seminar readings and resources
• Some readings are in a closed folder, login hasn been send by e-mail

Assignment 2 - Your Landscape Symbols

• Read the detailed description of this assignment
• First step: add a first visual of your landscape symbol to your working group page before the next session, so until 10th of April 2016

Group formation

• group and tutorininformation has been send out

Video explanation

• We explained the assignments also during our session on April 5, you can review the recording here.

Further references

• check out our resources page

Next Session

A.2 Concepts of landscape: Emergence and perspectives

Session date: MOnday, April 10, 2017, 15 30 - 17 00 pm CEST

• Thematic input: The people-centred landscape concept by Prof. Dr. Diedrich Bruns, Kassel University, and Prof. Dr. Luigi Bartolomei, University of Bologna, Italy