towards a landscape design didactics

Landscape Architecture Teachers‘ Workshop Tuesday, 16th of April 2013, Faculty of Architecture of University La SapienzaRome

Towards a Landscape Design Didacticsby Fernando Martínez Agustoni

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Why Landscape Design Didactics?

• “what” we should teach

• “why and “how” should we do it.

• because of its relevance in the construction of subjectivity and, ultimately, of a cultural identity.

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different kinds of knowledge

• procedural knowledge

• conceptual knowledge

• attitudinal knowledge

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procedural

conceptual

attitudinal

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conceptual• the concept of landscape

• what determines their disciplinary specificity

• dichotomy between theory and practice

• landscape hypothesis and scope

• design thinking and transdisciplin

• specifical knowledge management

• a typology of theoretical approaches

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procedural

• interpretation & intervention

• environmental perception

• representation: perceptography

• aesthetic dimension

• participatory design, collaborative design, user-centered design and design thinking.

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attitudinal

• teamwork

• scientist, artist, designer or philosopher

• ethics: the horizon, the sens

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conceptual

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The concept of landscape

• Landscape is not a tangible object, its being an interface between subject and object, means that we are studying an object of cognition that includes features that are beyond the physical and biological environment that is perceptible to us

• that implies "what" is being looked and, at the same time, “where” the subject is looking from, (The Horizon Condition)

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The concept of Design

• Update solutions for interaction situations between the human been and the habitat

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Hundertwasser concept of our different skins...

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Typology of theoretical aproaches to Landscape

OntologicalsMethodologicalEthical/deontologicalHistoriographical or field aproaches

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procedural

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environmental perception characteristics

• multi-sensory

• synergistic

• homeostatic

• kinesthetic

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aesthetic dimension

• Art builds the notion of inhabit.architecture is the eponymous art because it builds the physical space we inhabit

• relevance of Art

• trends & prospective studies

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Art

Science/TechnologyPhilosophy

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• participatory design,

• collaborative design,

• user-centered design and

• design thinking.

• ergonomy of open spaces

Trends on Design

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attitudinal

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to interpelate

• to refuse the closure of the topics

• to interpelate the universal value of hypothesis

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TEAMWORK

PART I

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The concept of landscape

• Landscape is not a tangible object, its being an interface between subject and object, means that we are studying an object of cognition that includes features that are beyond the physical and biological environment that is perceptible to us

• that implies "what" is being looked and, at the same time, “where” the subject is looking from, (The Horizon Condition)

martes 16 de abril de 13

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The concept of Design

• Update solutions for interaction situations between the human been and the habitat

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Hundertwasser concept of our different skins...

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Typology of theoretical aproaches to Landscape

OntologicalsMethodologicalEthical/deontologicalHistoriographical or field aproaches

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BREAK

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TEAMWORK

PART II

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Hundertwasser concept of our different skins...

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Typology of theoretical aproaches to Landscape

OntologicalsMethodologicalEthical/deontologicalHistoriographical or field aproaches

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procedural

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environmental perception characteristics

• multi-sensory

• synergistic

• homeostatic

• kinesthetic

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aesthetic dimension

• Art builds the notion of inhabit.architecture is the eponymous art because it builds the physical space we inhabit

• relevance of Art

• trends & prospective studies

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Art

Science/TechnologyPhilosophy

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• participatory design,

• collaborative design,

• user-centered design and

• design thinking.

• inclusive design

• ergonomy of open spaces

Trends on Design

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attitudinal

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to interpelate

• to refuse the closure of the topics

• to interpelate the universal value of hypothesis

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right to landscape and rigth to design

a question of ethics

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Conclusions

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Teamwork

• Protocols to be a team player... what doses this mean?

• which discipline are you coming from? Our codes and some other epistemological issues

• What is a high performance team?

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something about an specific knowledge management

• what kind of knowledge?

• the knowledge value

• how to comunicate it? to whom? why?

• research? what?

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trends in university education

• curricular flexibility

• integrated university functions

• teamwork vs. competition/team mindset

• integral education (attitudinal/ethical)

• transdisciplins

• conscious thought & action

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,ria eht ni seltsac tliub evah uoy fI“

;tsol eb ton deen krow ruoy

that is where they should be.

Now put the foundations under them.”

Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”.

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