The challenges of our time ask for spatial development strategies that take the landscape as the basis for working with natural processes for the benefit of socially and ecologically inclusive and thriving territories. Thanks to an international panel of experts, this workshop will explore landscape literacy and the richness of approaches to landscape analysis and planning. Namely, landscape as a system of ecosystems, as a palimpsest, as a way of seeing, and as a community. Each approach implies a selection of what is relevant in a given landscape, so leading to planning and design choices. The workshop introduces the concept of landscape-based regional design, as well as landscape strategy making and collaborative governance principles.
Each expert will introduce her/his approach and the related methods of analysis and illustrate planning and design outcomes on case studies. Site visits will enrich the workshop by providing real case studies and interactive sessions. Participants will be invited to test the proposed approaches in teamwork.
Guest lecturers: Proff. Steffen Nijhuis (Delft University of Technology), Jørgen Primdahl (University of Copenhagen), Lone Søderkvist Kristensen (University of Copenhagen). Politecnico di Torino teachers: Mauro Volpiano, Claudia Cassatella and Emma Salizzoni.
The challenges of our time ask for spatial development strategies that take the landscape as the basis for working with natural processes for the benefit of socially and ecologically inclusive and thriving territories. Thanks to an international panel of experts, this workshop will explore landscape literacy and the richness of approaches to landscape analysis and planning. Namely, landscape as a system of ecosystems, as a palimpsest, as a way of seeing, and as a community. Each approach implies a selection of what is relevant in a given landscape, so leading to planning and design choices. The workshop introduces the concept of landscape-based regional design, as well as landscape strategy making and collaborative governance principles.
Each expert will introduce her/his approach and the related methods of analysis and illustrate planning and design outcomes on case studies. Site visits will enrich the workshop by providing real case studies and interactive sessions. Participants will be invited to test the proposed approaches in teamwork.
Guest lecturers: Proff. Steffen Nijhuis (Delft University of Technology), Jørgen Primdahl (University of Copenhagen), Lone Søderkvist Kristensen (University of Copenhagen). Politecnico di Torino teachers: Mauro Volpiano, Claudia Cassatella and Emma Salizzoni.
What students will get from the workshop is: overview of different approaches to landscape analysis, including temporal, spatial, character, mindmap, and impact analysis illustrated through specific examples and short hands-on exercises; relationships between landscape change and public policy interventions at macro and micro levels.
Students will learn the richness of approaches to landscape and how to choose the appropriate lens and tecniques in relations to planning/design demands and contexts.
What students will get from the workshop is: overview of different approaches to landscape analysis, including temporal, spatial, character, mindmap, and impact analysis illustrated through specific examples and short hands-on exercises; relationships between landscape change and public policy interventions at macro and micro levels.
Students will learn the richness of approaches to landscape and how to choose the appropriate lens and tecniques in relations to planning/design demands and contexts.
General notions of planning systems and processes; land use analyses. GIS basics are useful but not mandatory.
General notions of planning systems and processes; land use analyses. GIS basics are useful but not mandatory.
8-12 May
Approaches to the landscape I. Ecology and semeiology
Landscape-based regional design
Approaches for understanding the landscape logic
Exercise: Mapping landscape system
Field Trip to Borgo Cornalese. An intentional design in the rural landscape
Design strategies, principles and experiments
Exercise: Identifying and experimenting with adaptive design principles
5-9 June 2023
Approaches to the landscape II. History, heritage, community
Landscape change and the need for analysis.
Historic landscape analysis landscape analysis – and landscape between place and space
Field Trip to Carema and Settimo Vittone, mountain terraced vineyard landscape
Landscape character analysis and landscape as place and community
Landscape strategy making – process design and solutions. Lecture, exercise and seminar
8-12 May
Approaches to the landscape I. Ecology and semeiology
Landscape-based regional design
Approaches for understanding the landscape logic
Exercise: Mapping landscape system
Field Trip to Borgo Cornalese. An intentional design in the rural landscape
Design strategies, principles and experiments
Exercise: Identifying and experimenting with adaptive design principles
5-9 June 2023
Approaches to the landscape II. History, heritage, community
Landscape change and the need for analysis.
Historic landscape analysis landscape analysis – and landscape between place and space
Field Trip to Carema and Settimo Vittone, mountain terraced vineyard landscape
Landscape character analysis and landscape as place and community
Landscape strategy making – process design and solutions. Lecture, exercise and seminar
During their activity, students will be supervised by an international, multi-disciplinary teaching staff. The activity will be exclusively held in English. Based on readings and lectures/seminars, concepts, principles frameworks and concrete cases are presented and discussed.
On-site visits are intended as exercises of field-work and interviews with stakeholders. Teamwork and collective interpretation will be required.
During their activity, students will be supervised by an international, multi-disciplinary teaching staff. The activity will be exclusively held in English. Based on readings and lectures/seminars, concepts, principles frameworks and concrete cases are presented and discussed.
On-site visits are intended as exercises of field-work and interviews with stakeholders. Teamwork and collective interpretation will be required.
The following readings are mandatory:
• Nijhuis, S (2022) Landscape-Based Urbanism: Cultivating Urban Landscapes Through Design. In: Roggema, R. (eds) Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes. Contemporary Urban Design Thinking, 249–277, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97023-9_11
• Nijhuis, S (2020) Landscape Authenticity. The Landscape as Living System, History and Spatial Experience. Bulletin KNOB, 119(4), 32-37. https://doi.org/10.48003/knob.119.2020.4.702
• Nijhuis, S & De Vries, J (2019) Design as Research in Landscape Architecture. Landscape Journal 38(1-2); 87-103. https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.38.1-2.87
• Stahlscmidt, P., Swaffield, S., Primdahl, J. and Nellemann, V. (2017): Landscape Analysis. Investigating the Potentials of Sace and Place. Routledge, London.
Chapter 1: Landscape change and the need for analysis (pp. 1-17)
Chapter 4: Historical analysis (pp.61- 77)
Chapter 6: Regionalisation and landscape Character assessment (pp. 99-128
• Kristensen, L.S. and Primdahl, J. (2020) Landscape strategy making as a pathway tp policy integration and involvement of stakeholders: examples from a Danish action research programme. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Vol. 63, No. 6, 1114–1131.
Presentations handouts will be provided, as well as information, maps and cartographies on the case studies.
The following readings are mandatory:
• Nijhuis, S (2022) Landscape-Based Urbanism: Cultivating Urban Landscapes Through Design. In: Roggema, R. (eds) Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes. Contemporary Urban Design Thinking, 249–277, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97023-9_11
• Nijhuis, S (2020) Landscape Authenticity. The Landscape as Living System, History and Spatial Experience. Bulletin KNOB, 119(4), 32-37. https://doi.org/10.48003/knob.119.2020.4.702
• Nijhuis, S & De Vries, J (2019) Design as Research in Landscape Architecture. Landscape Journal 38(1-2); 87-103. https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.38.1-2.87
• Stahlscmidt, P., Swaffield, S., Primdahl, J. and Nellemann, V. (2017): Landscape Analysis. Investigating the Potentials of Sace and Place. Routledge, London.
Chapter 1: Landscape change and the need for analysis (pp. 1-17)
Chapter 4: Historical analysis (pp.61- 77)
Chapter 6: Regionalisation and landscape Character assessment (pp. 99-128
• Kristensen, L.S. and Primdahl, J. (2020) Landscape strategy making as a pathway tp policy integration and involvement of stakeholders: examples from a Danish action research programme. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Vol. 63, No. 6, 1114–1131.
Presentations handouts will be provided, as well as information, maps and cartographies on the case studies.
Modalità di esame: Elaborato scritto individuale;
Exam: Individual essay;
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To get 2 ECTS, students enrolled in the MSc in Planning have to attend the meetings (25 h), and finally write a short paper on one of the approaches (of their own choice) on an individual basis. Starting from the given bibliographical references, the paper is expected to add a personal interpretation (further explorations of theories, methods or case studies, or an applied exercise of landscape character assessment on the proposed case studies, or a discussion on differences and complementarities among the approaches).
Students have to submit (upload) their paper not after the July, the 2nd to receive a feedback and a mark within the summer session.
Gli studenti e le studentesse con disabilità o con Disturbi Specifici di Apprendimento (DSA), oltre alla segnalazione tramite procedura informatizzata, sono invitati a comunicare anche direttamente al/la docente titolare dell'insegnamento, con un preavviso non inferiore ad una settimana dall'avvio della sessione d'esame, gli strumenti compensativi concordati con l'Unità Special Needs, al fine di permettere al/la docente la declinazione più idonea in riferimento alla specifica tipologia di esame.
Exam: Individual essay;
To get 2 ECTS, students enrolled in the MSc in Planning have to attend the meetings (25 h), and finally write a short paper on one of the approaches (of their own choice) on an individual basis. Starting from the given bibliographical references, the paper is expected to add a personal interpretation (further explorations of theories, methods or case studies, or an applied exercise of landscape character assessment on the proposed case studies, or a discussion on differences and complementarities among the approaches).
Students have to submit (upload) their paper not after the July, the 2nd to receive a feedback and a mark within the summer session.
In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.