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Planning Project - Driving Forces and Contemporary Tendencies

The urban landscape is changing rapidly in front of our eyes. Large areas of post-industrial heritage are retrofitted into generic urban districts with little or no consideration to the site’s specific qualities or conditions, resulting in immense resources being wasted. What if there are other ways of transforming these sites, and what if such “other ways” also holds lessons for city building’s engagement with the Global Sustainability Goals and transformations of urban landscapes in general? In this course the concepts of “planning” versus “design” are scrutinized as well as concepts such as “transformation”, “change”, “site” and “site specificity”. How are these concepts interpreted in contemporary landscape architecture? In what ways can design approaches in planning influence sustainability and have effects on the transformation of urban landscapes? What kinds of techniques for exploring site-specific qualities are available to us? And how do we convey and represent change actions that are beyond the conventional masterplans?

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2020-08-29
Course Introduction
Dear all! On Monday we will kick off the course and we have eventually decided to host the course introduction online on zoom. https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/62137039416 (Links to an external site.) During the course introduction we will walk you through the following agenda points: Course call. Students and teachers, please let us know your name, background (where you are from and what you have studied before), and one take away from the course that you are hoping to achieve. Corona safety measures. (CD & MA) Course objectives and content. (CD) Course admin and communication. (MA) Specific info on literature seminars (NV), course structure and modules (MA), the assignment (CD), and what's the point (GL). Closer look on the upcoming week. In order to get to know each over a bit better we would really appreciate if you upload a photo and a short description about yourself on canvas. If you feel like it, please also add a short statement on your expectations on the course and what you are looking forward to have as take aways from the course. Looking forward to see you all! Caroline

2020-07-03
Welcome to the course "Planning project: Driving Forces and Contemporary Tendencies"
The urban landscape is changing rapidly. Large areas of post-industrial heritage are retrofitted into generic urban districts with little or no consideration to the site’s specific qualities or conditions, resulting in immense resources being wasted. What if there are other ways of transforming these sites, and what if such “other ways” also holds lessons for city building’s engagement with the Global Sustainability Goals and transformations of urban landscapes in general? These are some of the questions that we will explore in the course through lectures, site explorations, literature seminars, proposal developments, and more. We will work with a site in Malmö - Lokstallarna - an old rail yard site in the area called Kirseberg. In the course the concepts of “planning” versus “design” are scrutinized as well as the concepts such as “transformation”, “change”, “site” and “site specificity”. How are these concepts interpreted in contemporary landscape architecture? In what ways can design approaches in planning influence sustainability and have effects on the transformation of urban landscapes? What kinds of techniques for exploring site-specific qualities are available to us? And how do we convey and represent change actions that are beyond the conventional masterplans? A literature list is published on this course page, as is a preliminary schedule. Please keep an eye out for updates as we are getting closer to course start. See you in fall! The course team.

Course evaluation

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LK0370-10126 - Course evaluation report

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Additional course evaluations for LK0370

Academic year 2021/2022

Planning Project - Driving Forces and Contemporary Tendencies (LK0370-10266)

2021-08-30 - 2021-11-01

Syllabus and other information

Grading criteria

Assessmentcriteria LK03702020

Learning Outcome1

Learning Outcome2

Learning Outcome3

Learning Outcome 4

After completion ofthe course thestudent should beable to:

Identify qualities, values and interests found onsite as potential driving forces andcommunicate themsystematically and artistically

Develop a design approach (“method”) of how to translate the identified qualities and implement it (“proposal”) on the site as a strategic proposal for future development of the site

Understand general contemporary tendencies and theory on planning history and landscape development

Produce a public presentation of summarized proposals, including site qualities, concept for development and contextualization

Assessment forms

Site explorations conducted and presented in weekly wrap-ups.
(group assessments for each assignment, in total 30% of the grade)

The design approach and the strategic proposalpresented at finalcrits.

(group assessment, 50% of the grade)

Oral reflections onstudied literature.Active participationin literatureseminars (participation compulsory) + oral presentation of one text.

(Individual assessment, 20% of the grade)

Public presentation*

(participation compulsory but not graded)

* Weekly wrap-ups and final crits

3 average

Attainment of majorcourse objectives,such as:

Ability to grasp sitequalities andexpress them systematically and artistically.

Ability to create and explain the design approach and to transfer the identified qualities into a strategic proposal for the specific local and regional context.

Ability toparaphrasecontemporarytendencies andtheories on theabove-mentionedtopics.

Ability to contribute to a concise and appealing public presentation, keeping essentials and critical points, discovered during the course.

4 good

Clear attainment ofmajor courseobjectives, such as:

Ability to creativelygrasp site qualitiesand express themwith artisticmastery

Ability to develop an innovative design approach and strategic proposal with rhetorically and graphically convincing and credible arguments

Ability to discusscontemporarytendencies andtheories on theabove-mentionedtopics.

5 excellent

Innovativeattainment of majorcourse objectives,such as:

Ability to creativelygrasp site qualitiesand express themwith artistic innovation

Ability to develop an innovative design approach critically reflecting aspects of temporalities and flexibilities, and to transfer theidentified qualitiesinto an artisticallyconvincing strategic proposal, with mastery of communicative skills

Ability to creativelyelaborate on contemporarytendencies andtheories on theabove-mentioned topics

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes Cycle: Master’s level (A1N)
Subject: Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture
Course code: LK0370 Application code: SLU-10126 Location: Alnarp Distance course: No Language: English Pace: 100%