Programme

Friday, 30.03.12 

13 30  Reception

14 00  Welcome

14 30   Prof. Dr. Diedrich Bruns  ECLAS, Universität Kassel 

Perspectives and Challenges of Landscape Architecture Education in Europe

15 00    Pascal Gysin BSLA President

Professional Challenges for Landscape Architecture - The Swiss Perspective

15 20   Prof. Dr. Jörg Schaller Prof. Schaller UmweltConsult GmbH

• to understand and apply different landscape assessment approaches
• to discuss the concept of ‘Everyday Landscapes’.

Background, theory, purpose and application of different landscape assessment approaches will be presented by taking a variety of international perspectives. Student participants will, parallel to a lecture series, apply assessment methods by performing small assessment projects (train and test in practice).

Please contact the seminar coordinator if you wish to attend as a guest listener.

Professor Ingrid Schegk has taken over the role of the IMLA programme director at HSWT Weihenstephan-Triesdorf. The programme was let successfully until then by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kias who is now dean of the faculty.

This interdisciplinary and international group created unique concepts for the Mureş Riverbanks and the river valley in correlation with the peri-urban areas from Tîrgu Mureş city to Sîngeorgiude Mureş. One result is a comprehensive joint analysis done by all students which illustrates the weaknesses and opportunities of the site. The concepts are mainly dealing with greenway concepts but also illustrate alternative land uses for this river valley. Moreover, the students worked out ideas of funding.

It was a complex task of dealing with ecology, sociology and economy. The authors hope that this unique site north of Tîrgu Mureş will not end up as a new housing area for real estate industries. They are convinced that there is an opportunity for developing a ‘new green heart’ for Tîrgu Mureş which provides people place of recreation, nature, tourism, income and quality of life.

However, today Népliget is no longer a favourite park according to the 2007 public opinion survey. The aim of this project was to analyse the current situation and to develop specific concepts for revitalizing and rehabilitating the park. During their stay on site in Budapest the IMLA students worked together with landscape architecture students from Corvinus University under the supervision of landscape architect Kristin Faurest and Professor Frieder Luz from Weihenstephan-Triesdorf.

Please download the project brochure for more information on the project's background and the results.

The course started with a theoretical introduction into the concept of landscape while the participants worked on an accompanying assignment in which they produced photos and small video clips of a landscape transsect at their location. During the second phase internationally composed small groups of students analysed case studies and derived conceptual ideas for future landscapes on this basis. Finally, a comparison of different national landscape concepts was done with the help of synchronous concept mapping.

The seminar results and various recordings of the accompanying lectures are publicly accessible on the seminar wiki.

Besides lectures in "Advanced landscape visualisation" the workshop includes hands-on training with Biosphere 3D, a very interesting open source landscape visualisation project, bringing together GIS techniques with advanced real time visualisation.

The students enjoyed the course very much and got the feeling to get educational input from the front line of research.

Students´ examples from Philip Paar´s workshop:

Screenshot from Fahad Alghamdi

Screenshot from Daniel Scheuffele

During the project, the following questions had to be answered:

• How can the improvement of the Naviglio Grande be used for leisure time and relaxation / nature-based tourism?
• How can other demands on space be taken into account, such as from agriculture, nature protection or energy generation?
• How can the interests of the local communities and relevant stakeholders be incorporated?
• Which thematical or spatial foci does the Naviglio Grande offer? How far does a differentiation make sense?

Based on the overall concept, an initial project was set up for a choice of three areas of focus situated in different landscapes.

• naviglio and nature, in between the Ticino valley and the high dry plain landscape units
• naviglio and the cultural landscape (and infrastructure) inside the high water plain
• urban conurbation, inside the middle water plain urbanized area

Design proposals were developed in the areas of focus. Their aim was to demonstrate the core message of the concept and to encourage the relevant stakeholders to support the implementation of the project. The areas of focus have been expressly chosen in different areas in order to prove – by means of concrete design proposals - the spatial and functional efficiency of the model which has been developed. The three areas of focus were more closely looked at in a scale of 1:500/1:1,000. The following questions had to be answered in the design proposals for the areas of focus:
What importance does the new design have for the overall area of the Naviglio Grande?

• How does the spatial integration into the overall concept work?
• What is the importance of connecting paths and roads?
• Which sequences of space are created?
• Are necessary hierarchies of functions and space created?
• What makes the draft readable in the overall concept?
• What is specific about the newly designed landscape?
• Which innovations does the draft offer?
• How sustainable is the design proposal for the future development of the Naviglio Grande?
• What differentiates the design concept and the draft from other concepts with comparable landscapes?
  
  

For the upcoming IMLA program we changed the application procedure and you will have to apply via the online application service uni-assist.

More information about "Tuition and Application" for IMLA you will find here.

More information about the application process via uni-assist you will find here.