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PLS0058

Kritikalitet i, av och för design - mot en förståelse för kritik i landskapsarkitektur, urbanism och design

The transdisciplinary course ’Criticality in, on, and for design’ aims to explore the phenomenon of critique and its importance for the evaluation of design practice and the practical design of andscapes and the built environment, and offers the opportunity to exercise the writing of a critique.

The course takes a landscape architectural perspective on urban landscapes, but is very well suited for researchers from other design disciplines, or those interested in the field of design. The seminar invites students to reflect on the place of criticism in your field, their position towards that phenomenon in their own work, and to elaborate a critique based on a pre-established set of guidelines. Students will engage with three types of literature – sample critiques, practical guidelines

for producing critiques, and theoretical texts on the practice and place of criticism in academic and professional contexts. The seminar session will include two lectures: Andrea Kahn (SLU professor and founder of designCONTENT, a strategic consultancy for designers) will address the place of

critique and critical thinking in research; Lisa Diedrich (critique author, co-editor of a theme issue on critique in the design research journal SPOOL and editor of the professional book series Landscape Architecture Europe) will discuss the critique more specifically within the context of landscape architecture as academic discipline and professional practice. Both teachers engage in research across multiple design and planning arenas.

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