| Responsible Department | Forest & Landscape | ||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | BSc. 3 year to MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | Joint BSc and MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Continuous Assessment written examination and oral examination Portfolio Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: A symposium summarize the group work in individual presentation, where each student answers the examiners questions and discuss the findings in relation to problem formulation and general theories in the field Weight: Introductory presentation 20% Problem formulation 30% Individual presentation and discussion 50 % 7-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | Students should have done an individual introductory presentation, a written problem formulation (1 - 1 1/2 A4 ) and participated in the groupwork | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Students should hold a certain experience in landscape design and landscape planning. The student must have competences in theoretical understanding of landscape design and history. Students should know of water landscapes, at least from their home region. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Summer Course | ||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | max 40 students | ||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||
| Course content The course is a landscape design and planning course with emphasis upon cultural landscapes and landscape architecture, solutions, and future prospects for water landscapes. With point of departure in defined regional driving forces, the students will work with cases, modelbuilding, and other analytical tools to produce a basis for the formulation of visions, strategies for the choosen cases. The students will be provided with plans, data and other inputs concerning the cases, including information on socio-economic condition, environmental and ecological state and character of the landscape. The relevant theoretical and methodological issues will be presented in lectures and workshops by a number of teachers from inside as well outside University of Copenhagen. Such issues include: driving forces of water landscapes, representation theory, model building as strategic landscape analysis, sustainability impact assessment. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching The course is a summer course and is held as a 'boarding school' where the students are living and working together for 2 weeks. Accommodation will take place at the Forest School in Nødebo, in the Northern part of Sealand. The course takes place in the period August 8 - August 21 2010. Some preparatory work must be expected before the course. The course is organised as a co-operation between the IARU network; Queensland University of Technology and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. For information on application procedure, please contact: toda@life.ku.dk | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome Water landscapes are characterised by the land use, because they are attractive to many functions and permanently under pressure from urban expansion and demands imposed by nearby population concentrations. Current demands for climate migration and adaptation have added additional functions to the urban landscape. Ensuring the landscape quality of such areas requires innovative and strategic design and planning as well as collaboration among many stakeholders and citizens. After completing of the course the students should be able to hold the following competences: Knowledge: Describe and understand the characteristics and specific problems of regional context in relation to other regions in the world, including the understanding of driving forces of water and landscape in the rural landscape as well as in selected landscape architectural project representing innovative and traditional cases. Describe basic indicators of sustainability Skill: Apply methods for description, analysis and assessment/evaluation of water landscapes Apply theory on sustainable development Formulate and communicate visions, strategies and plans for a design of sustainable development in water landscapes Competences: Work in groups with people from different regions of the world and Hold a critical and reflective view on contemporary design, uses and planning of water landscapes Discuss the functions of water landscapes in a wider context | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Torben Ebbesen Dam, toda@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Landscape, Phone: 353-31797 | |||||||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||||||
| Special fee for accomodation, please contact course responsible | |||||||||||||||
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