imla | up-to-date http://www.imla-campus.eu/ imla-campus.eu - up-to-date information de imla | up-to-date http://www.imla-campus.eu/fileadmin/imla/main/img/imla-logo.png http://www.imla-campus.eu/ 185 70 imla-campus.eu - up-to-date information TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:49:00 +0100 Future role of HSR Rapperswil in IMLA http://www.imla-campus.eu/imla/news/future-role-of-hsr-rapperswil-in-imla.html HSR Rapperswil has to withdraw from IMLA step by step this and the next year As IMLA is a joint venture of 3 Universities from 2 countries, IMLA is based on different governmental approvals. The Swiss Government´s approval of IMLA included the condition that Berne is only willing to fund the study programme, if at least 10 students domiciled in Switzerland are enrolled per new academic year.

While this was the case in 2008, we had only 5 applications from Switzerland for the course starting in October 2009. With a total of about 35 acceptable applications the Swiss proposal to pause the course due to the lack of Swiss applicants was not acceptable for the 2 other IMLA partners.

As a result the HSR was forced by governmental decisions to withdraw the contribution to IMLA as a full partner. Of course this does not affect the running course started in 2008. In future HSR will take part in IMLA only as an associated partner.

Currently the remaining IMLA partner universities are in contact with a series of European Universities in order to discuss possible future partnerships.

Applications for the next course starting in October 2010 are to be received online by Nürtingen-Geislingen University, only.

Application deadline is July 15th.

]]> General Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:49:00 +0100 Urban Landscape Banská Štiavnica - Results of students´projects http://www.imla-campus.eu/imla/news/urban-landscape-banska-stiavnica-results-of-studentsprojects.html The results of students´work in the second study project are available now as PDF documents. The project dealt with the urban landscape of Banská Štiavnica, a medium sized town in the centre of the Slovak Republic. Students were asked to develop regional and local development concepts. The results are grouped under the following headings:

  • Linking the urban context: Golden and Silver corridors
  • Hand in Hand Project: A new identity for the local Roma community
  • Landscape as a gold mine
  • Strategic Toolbox for Banská Štiavnica
  • Landscape as a gold mine
  • Turning the outside in - turning the inside out

For each topic a PDF document containing a summary of the results is available.

]]> Modules Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:01:00 +0100 Urban Landscape Banská Štiavnica http://www.imla-campus.eu/imla/news/urban-landscape-banska-stiavnica.html The results of the second study project will be shown on Thursday, 30th of July at HSR Rapperswil.... The project dealt with the urban landscape of Banská Štiavnica, a medium sized town in the centre of the Slovak Republic. Students were asked to develop regional and local development concepts. The results are grouped under the following headings:

  • Strategische Toolbox für Banská Štiavnica
  • Landscape as a gold mine
  • Public open spaces and traffic
  • A new identity for the Roma settlement
  • Turning the outside in - turning the inside out
]]> Modules Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:54:00 +0200 Periurban Landscape Scenarios across Market Forces and State Regulations http://www.imla-campus.eu/imla/news/periurban-landscape-scenarios-across-market-forces-and-state-regulations.html In the context of their first main project IMLA students were asked to conceive periurban landscape... Three different areas, all part of Stuttgart Region, have been considered in parallel working groups. The sites have been selected according to their different levels of urbanisation. Based on an initial system analysis, in which the mayor driving forces were identified, students outlined a variation of possible development perspectives.

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Regional Context

Stuttgart Region is home to around 2.7 million inhabitants and comprises 179 local authorities (i.e. communities and rural districts). As one of the most prospering areas both in the German and the European context it is also the most densely populated German territory with around 700 people per square kilometre. Interestingly, the region is famous for both its economy and its landscapes. This hints already at the very specific spatial composition this project aimed to address.

Scenarios for the Filder Area

This fertile plain with intensive agricultural production south west of Stuttgart city is the region’s major battlefield for land use conflicts. Stuttgart airport is the primary land consumer in this context. The next big impact is expected to emerge from the implementation of Stuttgart 21 which is the ‘flagship’ infrastructure development project of the region.

Multifunctionalism in landscape development was the cross-cutting theme of all proposals, whereas some were more theoretical in nature, others more design-oriented. However, all approaches were underlined by a serious GIS-based analysis of the actual landscape texture and functionality. Ideas reached from landscape hybrids via energy and nature parks to more theoretical appraisals of periurban aesthetics and new values emerging from a mix of recreation and agriculture. Some projects even aimed at reconsidering common on planning practice and  methodology.

Periurban multifunctional landscapes, author: Agniezka Gorniak

Sustainable Development for Metzingen

The small town at 30 kilometres south of Stuttgart has devoted itself to the installation of factory outlet stores, which has made it very famous among the Swabian people and beyond. Land consumption related to the construction of outlet stores, car parks and roads is thus happening at a speed inadequate for a community of 22.000 inhabitants. However, the surroundings of Metzingen are of high scenic and recreational value.
This aspect was taken on in the respective student approaches by identifying and evaluating landscape elements of the periphery of Metzingen in the first place. This was also done via GIS-based analysis. On that basis a set of measures was formulated, aiming a interweaving and thus strengthening external and internal green structures. Complementary to this urban perspective another approach looked at the connection between the city of Metzingen and the new biosphere reserve on the Swabian Alb.

Connecting Metzingen to its landscape (Franziska Schüller)

 

Transforming a Military Area on the Swabian Alb

The former military training area of Münsingen has only recently been transformed into a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve. In the past the area was inaccessible for the public. Therefore, a unique landscape character has been preserved which is absolutely unusual for a region with such high density of land use. Today the area is going through a process of redefinition concerning its role for the region as well as for the adjacent communities. In the context of this project a feasibility study for a wild park on the territory of the military training area was implemented.

Wildlife park on the former military site (Juliana Aschwanden-Vilaca)

The different levels of urbanisation cover a wide range of what we can find in metropolitan regions and their surroundings. Such transect from urban to rural provides an ideal field for projects within landscape architectural education. The students took at least two advantages out of this approach: they had a common, periurban topic, as well as the possibility, to choose their own specialisation interests. In addition, the work they delivered varied from theoretical in-depth studies to practical and detailed local solutions, mainly based on scenarios. They experienced, that there is a strong need for integrative studies, derived from a kind of systems analysis, in order to find out, how landscape architecture can influence spatial development options in the context of market forces and state regulations.

Ellen Fetzer and Roman Lenz, June 2009

 

]]> Modules Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:39:00 +0200 Idealism, Pragmatism and Opportunism - about Dutch Landscape Architecture http://www.imla-campus.eu/imla/news/idealism-pragmatism-and-opportunism-about-dutch-landscape-architecture.html Noel van Dooren, Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, will give a guest lecture on Thursday, April... Noël van Dooren is a Dutch independent landscape architect and head of the landscape architecture department, Academy of Architecture Amsterdam/ Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam.


He is providing an insight into the local scene in regard of social changes between 1950 – 1990 influencing and resulting in a specific style of the Dutch landscape architecture.

Time: Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 5pm

Location: HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, building 4, room 4.006a

]]> General Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:41:00 +0200 IMLA starts with an international online seminar on urban landscapes http://www.imla-campus.eu/imla/news/imla-starts-with-an-international-online-seminar-on-urban-landscapes.html The new IMLA course starts with an internship and accompanying online seminars. Students spend this... The urban landscape online seminar is realised with support of the LE:NOTRE Mundus project. This project aims to develop teaching resources and teaching activities on urban and cultural landscapes with a global scope in the context of landscape architecture education. The seminar is an accompanying measure to this overall objective. Its emphasis is on urban landscapes.

More Information: undefined3650 Urban Landscapes

Please visit the undefinedLE:NOTRE website for more information on the European Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture.

 

 

]]> General Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:29:00 +0200 IMLA 2008: compact, focussed, one location http://www.imla-campus.eu/imla/news/imla-2008-compact-focussed-one-location.html The next IMLA course will start in autumn 2008. Some structural changes have been introduced. In... Three study phases

The IMLA programme will start with an internship in the first semester. Graduates from bachelor programmes will thus gain first professional experience. In addition, the internship will help balancing the different profiles of IMLA students coming from different educational backgrounds. The first semester will be accompanied by online lectures. Graduates with diploma or similar certificates may be exempted from the first semester if proof of equivalent professional experience is provided.

International projects

The second and third IMLA semesters are intensive study phases and students will be based in Rapperswil during that period. The fourth semester starts with an international project in which students will work at partner universities such as University of South Australia, Adelaide (AUS), Technical University in Zvolen (SK), University College Dublin (IRL) or Polytechnic University of Valencia (E). The fourth and last semester finishes with the individual Master’s thesis.

IMLA 2008: Focus on peri-urban landscapes

Each IMLA course will have an annual thematic emphasis. The 2008/09 course will focus on landscape architecture in peri-urban areas. Areas of study will be the urban regions of Budapest (HU), Stuttgart (DE) and Milano (IT). In the context of these case-studies students will identify how market forces and state regulations are interacting in differing scenarios and thus determining the possibilities of landscape architecture. This unconventional approach will ask for both planning and design skills.

One place of study

IMLA involves three higher education institutions: HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil (CH), Nürtingen-Geislingen University (DE), Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences (DE). Up to know, the modules have been organised sequentially at the three universities. The next course in autumn 2008 will concentrate at only one place of study at HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil in Switzerland. However, professors and lectures from the two other partner universities will come to Rapperswil for teaching in the IMLA programme.

International Dimension

In addition to the partner universities’ staff international lecturers and professionals will teach in the coming term:

  • Noël van Dooren, Amsterdam Academy of Architecture
  • Prof. Adrian Hoppenstedt, BDLA
  • Prof. Dr. Jörg Schaller, Technische Universität München
  • Jeroen de Vries, Hogeschool Larenstein
  • Peter Zbinden, AlpTransit Gotthard AG  
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