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Studio - Large scale landscape project

The studio course is built around an infrastructure project somewhere in Sweden. It concerns transports and can be road or railway projects. An initial group assignment studies a landscape and a situation that can be found in several different places in the country. Based on a future scenario, various locations and designs of a planned new infrastructure are studied. A method for landscape characterization based on the concepts of the European Landscape Convention is applied in the group task. In the following individual design task, you choose what you want to investigate. It can be an alternative location of a road, design of ecoducts, road slopes or something else that interests you with relevance to the course and the project. Lectures, theme days and literature seminars deepen and problematize issues related to landscape, ecology, history and sustainability. A study trip (two, three days) in Sweden shows concrete examples of large-scale landscape changes. Travel costs are borne by the student. The course is given in English.

The course applies specific selection critera based on total amount of completed credit within the subject area Landscape Architecture, in accordance with decision SLU.ua.2023.1.1.1-747

Information from the course leader

2020-12-18

Timetable and info

There is now a timetable for the course here on the course page. It´s preliminary, but dates for different "hand ins" should be correct, most of the lectures too, but changes may occur and lecterus can be added. Complete timeshedule will be presented when the course start.

As written before, there will be distant teaching on Zoom. However we strongly recommend you to visit the area (see below) using bus 809 for example, and avoiding rush hours during the course.

The project will be about the landscape and road 282 from Uppsala to Almunge east of Uppsala. The first part of the course you will work in groups with a landscape character analysis and new "traffic concept". In the second part you will work individually with a design question based on the groups analysis and concept.

REMEMBER to answer yes or no when you are offered a seat in the course.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2021!

/Tomas Eriksson

2020-11-24
Welcome, info and literature list
Hello and a warm welcome to Studio Large scale landscape project.

There will be a literature list in the end of this message, but first some general information.

Due to the corona situation the course will be implemented through distance teaching through zoom-meetings and lectures etc. Most of you are familiar with this concept by now. Because of that we are not planning a joint fieldtrip to Kiruna or elsewhere. Some modified fieldtrip assignments are planned instead.

About the number of seats in the course. If you have a seat in the course but you intend NOT TO ATTEND the course, MAKE SURE TO SAY NO to that seat and give the seat to another student. The week before the course start you can register. Do that! Keep yourself uppdated here on the course page. More info will follow.

All the best/Tomas Eriksson

Here follows the literature list:

Literature list This list contains compulsory literature that will be discussed in seminars or needed in assignments in order to pass the course. The literature of the two first seminars are books that needs two be purchased or borrowed, the rest are pdf:s handed out on Canvas or found on internet. Additional reading will be suggested during the course and available on canvas or internet.

Literature seminar- "Landscape analysis". First week of the course!

Stahlschmidt, P., Swaffield, S., Primdahl, J. & Nellemann, V. (2017). Landscape Analysis: Investing the Potential of Space and Place.

• Chapter 1, Landscape change and the need for analysis, pp 1-17

• Chapter 2, Framing analysis: values, experts and citizens pp 18-32

• Chapter 7, Site selection and landscape potential, pp 129-152

• Chapter 8, Impact assessment and future studies, pp 153-175

Choose one of these articles on Canvas or Internet

* Antonsson, H. (2011). “The treatment of landscape in a Swedish EIA process”. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 31(2011): 195-205.

* Brunetta, G. and A. Voghera (2008). "Evaluating Landscape for Shared Values: Tools, Principles, and Methods." Landscape Research 33(3): 71-87.

* Butler, A. (2018). Landscape assessment as conflict and consensus. In Defining Landscape Democracy: A Path to Spatial Justice. Eds Egoz, S, Jörgensen, K. & Ruggeri, D. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Edgar Publishing Limited: pp 85-95.

* Dakin, S. (2003). "There's more to landscape than meets the eye: towards inclusive landscape assessment in resource and environmental management." The Canadian Geographer 47(2): 185-200.

* Fairclough, G. and P. Herring (2016). "Lens, mirror, window: interactions between Historic Landscape Characterisation and Landscape Character Assessment." Landscape Research 41(2): 186-198.

* Papmehl-Dufay, L. (2015). “Places that matter. Megalithic monuments form a biographical perspective” In Landscape Biographies. Geographical, Historical and Archaeological perspectives in the production and Transmission of Landscapes. Eds. Kolen, J., Renes, H. & Herman, R. Amsterdam University Press. pp 143-165 (available as ebook via library - https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15r3x99)

Literature seminar – "Design"

Lawson, B. (2005). How Designers Think: The design process demystified. 4th edition.

• Chapter 3 Route maps of the design process, pp 31-52

• Chapter 4 The components of design problems, pp 53-62

• Chapter 5 Measurements, criteria and judgement in design, pp 63-82

• Chapter 6 A model of design problems, pp 83-111

• Chapter 7 Problems, solutions and the design process, pp 112-128 Literature seminar – Field trip (work in progress – not ready – will be on canvas or internet)

Literature when working with your assignments/projects – on canvas

* Trafikverket (2018). Landscape as an Arena: Integrated Landscape Character Assessment-Method Description

* Trafikverket (2014) Strategic Choice of Measure: A new step for planning of transport solutions

References – not compulsory

About maps

* Brodersen, L. (2001) Maps as communication. Kort- og Matrikelstyrelsen (https://ftp.space.dtu.dk/pub/stenseng/Kms-tech-rap/Maps_as_Communication_-_Theory_and_Methodology_in_Cartography.pdf)

* Wood, D. (2010) Rethinking the power of maps. The Guilford Press: Chapter 2, pp 39-52.

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

LK0314-30132 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for LK0314

Academic year 2023/2024

Studio - Large scale landscape project (LK0314-30149)

2024-01-15 - 2024-03-19

Academic year 2022/2023

Studio - Large scale landscape project (LK0314-30040)

2023-01-16 - 2023-03-21

Academic year 2021/2022

Studio - Large scale landscape project (LK0314-30134)

2022-01-17 - 2022-03-23

Academic year 2019/2020

Studio - Large scale landscape project (LK0314-30038)

2020-01-20 - 2020-03-24

Academic year 2018/2019

Studio - Large scale landscape project (LK0314-20034)

2018-11-05 - 2019-01-20

Syllabus and other information

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 74982 SEK Cycle: Master’s level (A1N)
Subject: Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture
Course code: LK0314 Application code: SLU-30132 Location: Uppsala Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Urban and Rural Development Pace: 100%