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Theme Course 2020:2

This year’s theme course - Landscape architecture in transport infrastructure – is initiated, and partly financed, by the Swedish Transport Administration. The course is a part of their long-term strategy to strengthen the knowledge of landscape and infrastructure through research and education. The course aims at developing the students’ knowledge and provide tools for analyses and design of landscape in infrastructure projects. One important aspect of infrastructure design is to interpret and understand the scale and spatiality of infrastructure both in rural and urban landscape, as well as learning to develop strategies and design concepts in the current context. This includes dealing with impact on the surrounding environments, such as barrier effect, spatial segregation and people’s perception of landscape. Another aspect is to develop design concepts into feasible design proposals with maintained coherence. The aim of the course is also to give the students insight into the specific circumstances of infrastructure design, as well as strengthening knowledge of practical, decision-making processes, legal and formal conditions, technical aspects and architectural potentials in transport infrastructure. During the course we will study and problematize existing infrastructure projects through e.g. excursions, workshops, literature and lectures. Students will also practice and develop their knowledge in an individual project.

Information from the course leader

2020-08-24
Welcome to this year´s theme course Landscape Architecture in Transport Infrastructure!
On Monday 31st of August, the introduction to the course will be in Malmö to minimize crowds in public transport and at Alnarpsgården. We will meet at 9 o'clock at SPLN in Stapelbäddsgatan 3, Malmö (https://stpln.org/) which is located next to the skatepark Stapelbäddsparken and near the train station. Regarding Covid 19 We will do our best to follow present preconditions and rules of conduct, and we have made some adaptations of the course based on the directions from SLU. - During all period we will use the room Hyllan for lectures, tutoring etc. Hyllan can be accessed directly from the east entrance and the room has its own toilets. We will make sure there are facilities for heating food, making coffee etc. in order to minimize the need of contact to the rest of campus. The room will be furnished in a suitable way with distance. - We encourage all students to not use public transport unless necessary. - All lectures will be recorded and/or live streamed. Since this course runs for the first time, we put high value in physical meetings. You should only stay at home if you are in a risk group or having symptoms! - Tutoring can be made on Zoom or in place. Since it is difficult to keep distance in tutoring situations SLU will provide mandatory face masks for these occasions. - The planned 3-day excursion around Sweden will be replaced by a one-day excursion with no overnight stay. For all excursions we have booked big busses (50 p) to make sure we can keep the distance also on the bus.

Course evaluation

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LK0389-10322 - Course evaluation report

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Additional course evaluations for LK0389

Academic year 2021/2022

Theme Course 2020:2 (LK0389-10271)

2021-08-30 - 2021-11-01

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Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes Cycle: Master’s level (A1N)
Subject: Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture
Course code: LK0389 Application code: SLU-10322 Location: Alnarp Distance course: No Language: English Pace: 100%