Seminar Democratic Landscape Transformation 2024
Dear landscape democracy enthusiasts,
We invite you to another journey across landscape, democracy, co-creation and collective visioning!
- Are you a planning or design student interested in learning how to create more inclusive, open and democratic landscapes?
- Are you educating planners and designers and interested in meeting peers with similar interests?
- Do you want to make your own local landscape a more inclusive, socially productive and resilient space?
Then participate in the Open Landscape Academy: an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.
- Our next open online seminar will start on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 and finishes on July 2, 2024
- Sessions will be on Wednesdays from 18 00 - 19 30 CEST. Meet our team
- Download course syllabus
- The 2024 onsite programme will take place in Athens, Greece, from May 24 to June 1, 2024
- We invite interested universities to join our annual platform together with their students and local communities.
- For any further information please email us under info(at)openlandscapeacademy.org
- For more details and an overview of the program, see another section of this Wiki: Towards the Open Landscape Academy
>>> Register here for the upcoming online seminar
Collaborating for Democratic Landscape Transformation
Democratic Landscape Transformation is a semester-long international online seminar presented by a team of practitioners from universities and NGOs across Europe and the U.S. with presentations, discussions, and multimedia resources from around the world.
It is one of three components of Open Landscape Academy, a participatory action research project on landscape democracy.
The other two parts of OLA are:
- Intensive summer onsite workshops that test what you learned in the seminar
- Local Living Labs at several European sites where ideas, experiences and methods are tested, assessed, re-interpreted, and documented
The question driving the project is how we co-create a model for democratic landscape transformations -- grounded in theory, practices of landscape democracy and participation.
Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession at the intersection of landscape and human rights.
The OLA's biggest goal is to prototype a model that engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape democracy.
We seek to think truly globally and apply local solutions.
The course is open to all but designed for students of the planning professions who want the theories, methods, tools and skills for how to create a more democratic, equitable, just, and sustainable world.
Learning Objectives
- Please visit our Learning Objectives over view page.
Assignments and Course Requirements
- Regular attendance and active participation in our seminar sessions
- Completion of the course assignment
- Participants will receive a certificate after successful completion
- Download course syllabus
ERASMUS+ Programme & Consortium
The OLA Project is partially funded by the ERASMUS+ European Union grant program, under grant no.2022-1-DE01-KA220-HED-000085922. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency is responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damages incurred that are the result of the use of these resources.
