What is relevant in the field of park programs and landscape political programs in our time? The course deals with a critical examination of the modernisms park program. What was good then and what works today? Who uses the parks and other public spaces today? For what are they used? How are the modern life and the use of public spaces?
This course focuses on the interaction between landscape and the built environment, the cityscape of a selected town. It deals with the major issues of the society of today in terms of the physical environment. The course is dealing with the political issues of green structure contra the expanding and imploding city. The main focus is working with design in relation to landscape and architecture.
Project 1: A new landscape political program for Stockholm city
Overall goals
1. The course is part of the Landscape Design Studio:
The studio enters into contemporary and future issues about urban development. The approach is architecture based on a landscape relation, from a strategic planning situation to small scale designing projects.
2. The course/project goal is to increase the student's knowledge in this area/field and skills/knowledge in the field of architecture in general. The students will enter the project with varying degrees of knowledge/skills and will subsequently end up at different levels at the end of the course/project.
3. The individual student must show an increase in the particular skills/knowledge offered in the studio and in the field of architecture in general.
Course goals
At the completion of the course, each student should:
Be able to analyze the strategic landscape situation in a city or a part of a city.
Present a critical discussion concerning the programming of the public spaces.
Design a public space.
Make a landscape political program for a city or a part of a city using digital and verbal presentations.
Be familiar with common methods and techniques in landscape architecture practice.
Get an overview of contemporary landscape architecture projects through lectures and literature.