825047 VU Landscape and Territorial Strategies
winter semester 2022/2023 | Last update: 11.09.2022 | Place course on memo listThe students are able to understand and evaluate the basic methods and strategies of planning and designing landscapes and open spaces. They can relate these in a reflected way to local and global contexts.
Imparting basic knowledge and methods in landscape and spatial planning in relation to contemporary architecture; inclusion of the discourses of neighbouring disciplines such as human geography, sociology, ecology and biology.
This course sets out to explore the role of agricultural territories as altered environments within an extended urban landscape.
Specific case studies will be investigated in an attempt to define the extent to which altered environments function as part of a greater ‘urban’ environment. The case studies in relation to various environments (urban/rural/natural) will be analyzed through the use of exploratory methods including: data analysis, cartographic representation, and visual storytelling.
Human interventions, both minor and complex, have reshaped the natural environment altering it to an unrecognizable degree – resulting in the development of an altered/built environment. Our current geological time period, the Epoch of the Anthropocene, is a consequence of the compiling of these altered environments. It is therefore integral that subtopics of ecology + environment, place + culture, scale + perspective, sense + device (technology) be considered. Both a global and local context will be considered.
The goal is to develop a series of diagramatic drawings, which tell a coherent narrative on the physical formation of land(scape) using agricultural territories as the protagonist.
Course examination according to § 7, statute section on "study-law regulations".
Will be discussed in the first lesson.
course group (825047-0,1) taught by Ian Gillis (Hybrid - In-Person + Online)
Frist Week Block:
Mo. 03.10 - Intro + Assignment #1 (9am – 10:30am)
Di. 04.10 - Lecture 1 + Research/Assignment #2 (9am – 12pm)
Fr. 07.10 - Lecture 2 + Research/Assignment #3 (9am – 12pm)
Remaining Meetings Oct. - Dec.
Di. 11.10 - Lecture 3 + Research/Assignment #4 (9am – 12pm)
Di. 25.10 - 1-on-1 + Workshop (Time Slot)
Di. 08.11 - Workshop + Presentation (9am – 12pm)
Di. 22.11 - 1-on-1 + Workshop (Time Slot)
Di. 06.12 - Final Presentation (9am – 12pm)
- SDG 6 - Clean water and sanitation: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
- SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
- SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
- SDG 12 - Responsible consumption and production: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- SDG 13 - Climate action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by regulating emissions and promoting developments in renewable energy.
- SDG 15 - Life on land: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.