Admission requirements
The course is connected to the following study programs
Course description
¨Course responsible: Janike Kampevold Larsen
This course will unfold as a discussion of land care and land rights in the Anthropocene. As our environments are starting to behave in new ways and exposing us to new situations, we need to develop new ways of managing them.
The course advance new methods for landscape reading. It asks how we can respect the voices and interests of species and ecologies in a time of unpredictability and destabilization. It brings new and current knowledge from ecological, archeological, anthropological, and landscape studies into conversation with landscape reading and analysis. What can landscape architecture learn from other disciplines to update and enhance our landscape analysis proficiencies? Andv vice versa: how may landscape architecture enrich other discipline’s reading tools?
The course challenges current methods for landscape analysis and critically reads existing European and National frameworks for landscape heritage and safeguarding. It looks specifically at the discrepancies between general guidelines and situated knowledges of place and offers an apparatus for a more-than-human landscape reading – one that does not seek to evaluate landscapes as diffracted components mainly existing for human serviceability but rather contemplates them as always interwoven and relational processes in time and place.
There will be a short field trip to a rural landscape setting that features a variety of landscape agencies and forces. The trip will focus on landscape analyses tools and documentation methods for registration of:
- human and more-than-human traces
- biotic and abiotic qualities of landscape
- spatial activities and area planning
- what we do not see, either because it does not exist or because we do not know that it exists
- geo-morphological processes and their landscape-making agency
- oral evidence of landscape practices and history
Learning Outcome
At the conclusion of the course the student should be able to:
- have knowledge of some current environmental theories on landscape in the Anthropocene
- to describe a given landscape with particular focus on its ecological values
- to read landscape with a more-than-human lens and with particular emphasis on rights and care.
- communicate the tangible and intangible values in a given landscape context and to discuss how/if these values are inherent to or attributed to landscape
Teaching
- Lectures and seminars around specific texts
- Assignments
- Individual and group presentation
The course is structured around weekly seminars and work session. Students must expect to spend Tuesdays on the course. Each Tuesday will start off with a 2-hour seminar on current theories and proceed to preparatory mapping of the excursion area.
Physical attendance at lectures, reviews, supervision sessions, discussions, and other educational activities is expected and necessary in order to achieve the learning outcomes
Examination
Assessment method: Assignment submission
Grading scale: Pass/fail
In order to be assessed in this course, the student must have completed the following activities and assignments:
Active engagement, participation in discussion and participation on field trip
Final delivery: Proposal for an updated landscape analysis tool