852302 Contemporary landscape architecture


Type
Seminar
Semester hours
2
Lecturer (assistant)
Licka, Lilli , Kuzniecow Bacchin, Taneha
Organisation
Offered in
Wintersemester 2024/25
Languages of instruction
Englisch

Content

Taneha Kuzniecow Baccin,
is currently an Associate Professor in the section of urban design at Delft University of Technology, NL. In her work, she investigates the nexus between space, ecology, culture, and politics in designing and planning critical and highly dynamic landscapes.

Altered Nature and the Poetics of Change

This workshop explores the dynamic relationship between altered natures, post-carbon form and the future of territories. It operates on the premise that our current urban development and resource consumption systems are unendurable. We will start to develop alternative/radical projects that question current material practices and ecological biases.
Thereby we will explore new forms of co-existence and care within landscapes in alteration, focusing on the relationship between design agency and ground depletion, scarcity, and excess. We will address the question:

What spatial conditions (material, form, and processes) emerge when treating altered environments as shared spaces of potentiality and abundance?

The workshop emphasizes the role of design in negotiating conflicting values within critical environments, such as spatial production versus nature conservation in a post-carbon, more-than-human future. By studying and analysing these altered landscapes of critical environments, we examine the interplay between form, processes, and performance and will suggest an alternative strategy through design that's based on more than human needs.

Previous knowledge expected

good knowledge of visual communication tools (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign or Affinity Publisher, Creator, ..), experience with critical mapping, experience with QGIS

Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)

Students will be able to reflect on actual topics in landscape architecture and urbanism critically and contextualise them on a large territorial scale
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.