Seminar Landscape Education for Democracy 2018
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Then participate in the LED Program – an exciting way to earn credits and strengthen important professional skills.
- Our next open online seminar has started on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Please register before March 21
- 13 online seminar meetings take places weekly on Wednesdays from 14 00 - 15 30 CET, please check this link for time zone conversion
- The intensive study programme 2018 in Törökbálint, Hungary will take place from June 24 - July 3, 2018
- Download the seminar PPT presentation 2018
- LED 2018 Materials and Recordings (open access)
- Are you a participant? Then add your location to our interactive participant map
- For any further information please email us under info(at)led-project.org
Our project and learning activities
The landscape belongs to everyone. We should all have equal access to it and a voice in how it is used, valued and maintained. However, spatial planning education rarely includes considerations of democratic processes, participatory planning, community design and landscape stewardship. Furthermore, it does not fully prepare young practioners to become leaders in promoting democratic landscape change and work effectively in partnership with communities.
The idea behind the LED (Landscape Education for Democracy) project, a partnership between 5 European landscape architecture faculties and the LE:NOTRE Institute is to promote awareness and empower young design and planning professionals to become more active in shaping democratic change. Our goal is to fill a gap in design and planning education and give students the opportunity to confront themselves with pressing issues of landscape democracy, right to the landscape and participation.
The LED course includes 13 online course sessions available to students at any institution, as well as a 10-days on-site intensive programme available only to students at partner universities.
The 2018 LED intensive programme will be organised by Szent István University in Budapest, Hungary.
LED in action - some impressions from our online seminar 2017
Understanding landscapes from a human perspective: participants share their local landscape symbols
Participants draw and discuss landscape selfie-sketches
What motivates planners and designners for participation? Role playing landscape democracy personalities
Participants discuss their local landscape democracy challenges
Sharing and discussing the insights from the LED online seminar
Information material and LED resources
Our information materials for the upcoming 2018 course are currently being updated.
You can access LED lecture resources via this link:
- LED 2018 Materials and Recordings (open access)
- LED 2017 Materials and Recordings (open access)
- LED 2016 Materials and Recordings (open access)]
- LED reading list
Please visit the documentations of our previous online courses for further information:
For further information on the previous intensive study programmes please visit the following pages:
LED Publications 'Partnering for Landscape Democracy':
- Zingonia - Partnering for Landscape Democracy
- Kassel - Partnering for Landscape Democracy (both free download)
LED in action - some impressions from the Kassel workshop 2017
Meeting the local stakeholders in the Kassel Nordstadt community centre
Meeting the photo group of Kassel Nordstadt
Understanding the community's landscape with photo voice
Preparing for the visioning chairs method
Meeting the community in the local mosque
Course schedule and content for 2018
Online seminar: March-June 2018
The online module consists of twelve 90-minute sessions of lectures, reading materials, collaborative group work, concept mapping, storyboarding and other diverse active and passive learning tools.
More information can be found in the detailed course schedule.
- The seminar starts on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 14 00 CET.
- The seminar group will meet regularly on Wednesdays between 14 00 - 15 30 CET.
Themes covered in the course are:
- Landscape and democracy
- Participation theories and practices
- Community and identity
- The design process
- Communication and representation
Working Groups
Assignments
Conditions for participation and credits
Participation in the online seminar is free and open to students at any institution as well as the general public.
There are no registration fees. Participation is possible in two modes.
Full participation includes:
- regular attendance of the online class (or working with the seminar recordings in due time)
- completion of the seminar coursework and group assignments
- academic recognition of up to 5 ECTS
Following includes:
- visitation of online seminar sessions either in real time or through video recordings;
- possibility to do a final assessment
Further information
- please contact info(at)led-project.org
- Find us on Facebook
Our partnership
Grant holder and coordinator
- NMBU, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning
Project partners
- Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Nürtingen, Germany
- University of Kassel School of Architecture, Urban and Landscape Planning, Kassel, Germany
- Szent István University, Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
- University of Bologna, Department of Architecture, Italy
- LE:NOTRE Institute, an international foundation based in Wageningen, Netherlands.
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