Studio - Explorative methods to meet current societal challenges
The purpose of the course is to test and develop explorative methods to meet complex societal challenges. This includes both the individual design process and the communication of new solutions.
Course evaluation
Additional course evaluations for LK0428
Academic year 2024/2025
Studio - Explorative methods to meet current societal challenges (LK0428-30160)
2025-01-20 - 2025-03-24
Academic year 2023/2024
Studio - Explorative methods to meet current societal challenges (LK0428-30153)
2024-01-15 - 2024-03-19
Syllabus and other information
Syllabus
LK0428 Studio - Explorative methods to meet current societal challenges, 15.0 Credits
Studio - Utforskande metoder för att möta aktuella samhällsutmaningarSubjects
Landscape ArchitectureEducation cycle
Master’s levelModules
| Title | Credits | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Single module | 15.0 | 0001 |
Advanced study in the main field
Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirementsMaster’s level (A1N)
Grading scale
The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.
Language
EnglishPrior knowledge
Knowledge equivalent to 180 credits, of which 90 credits in one of the following main areas:- landscape architecture
- architecture
- urban design
of which 30 credits are studio courses
Or accepted to the Master's program Landscape Architecture for Sustainable Urbanization or accepted to the Master's program Landscape Architecture. Approved degree project/independent work at undergraduate level or bachelor's degree. Knowledge equivalent to English 6.
Objectives
The purpose of the course is to test and develop explorative methods to meet complex societal challenges. This includes both the individual design process and the communication of new solutions.
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
Competence and Skills
- discover and formulate complex contemporary design situations;
- develop relevant explorative and experimental methods for understanding, problem solving, argumentation and communication;
- through a cumulative knowledge- and work process, develop well-argued solutions and new knowledge;
- visualize the landscape and landscape processes with explorative methods that are relevant for the specific task;
- through representations communicate the idea generating working process from challenge to design;
Judgement and approach
- visualize how the development of ideas, the argumentation and final proposals relate to each other;
- reflect and communicate on the different stages of the working process.
Content
In this studio course, the student approach a complex societal challenge through design, to develop his or her ability to critically, independently and with a creative approach find a situation related design answer to the challenge in relation to the annual theme; e.g. flooding, climate issues linked to biodiversity or about migration, etc. The challenge is investigated through explorative and experimental methods and developed into a design situation linked to place and physical environment. From shorter explorative and often analog workshops the ideas develop into a larger project.
The students specify and formulate themselves but in consultation with the teaching team the larger project task; landscape challenge, investigative methods, visualization and communication.
Emphasis is on visual explorations both in sketching and communication phase, so that common course discussions and analyzes can contribute to everyone’s final result.
The course has an emphasis on workshops and studio work that is carried out both individually and in groups. It also includes lectures, literature studies and seminars linked to current societal challenge and the design process.
The course focuses on the following general competencies: Exploration, design and communication through experimental and visual design methods. Interaction between the individual and the common throughout the design process. Critical approach with visual and explorative methods.
The course includes mandatory attandence at workshops, seminars and presentations/critique sessions.
Collaboration with the surrounding community, among other things, can occur through external lecturers, workshop leaders or contact with municipalities.
Grading form
The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.Formats and requirements for examination
Approved project work, approved explorative works and participation in compulsory teaching situations.
If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.
The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.
If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.
For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.
Other information
The right to participate in teaching and/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.
If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.
Additional information
The course gives 15 credits of skill training.Responsible department
Department of Urban and Rural Development
Further information
Litterature list
Compulsory literature and film about the approach towards wetness
Films about approaches to landscape and water/wetness
Film with lecture by Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha about The act of design, Wetness and the Line (check also website https://www.mathurdacunha.com/ )
https://play.mediaflow.com/ovp/11/73EBRFI32G
Film about wetness in Göteborg and the approach of the city.
Literature about investigating and representing the landscape
Desimini, Jill & Waldheim, Charles (2016). Cartographic grounds: projecting the landscape imaginary. 1 ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Pp. 6-19, 30-33, 46-51, 72-75, 176-195 (approx. 45pp)
Foxley, Alice & Vogt, Günther (2010). Distance & engagement: walking, thinking and making landscape. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Muller Publishers. Pp. 7-32, 447 (approx. 25 pages)
***Literature about landscape architecture and design connected to water ***
***Complusory: ***You need to familiarize yourself with all texts and choose at least two sources/projects that you study closely and to which you connect your project.
Aragon, Carolina. Buxton, Jane & Hamin Infield, Elisabeth. (2019). The role of landscape installations in climate change communication. Landscape and Urban Planning. Volume 189, September 2019, Pages 11-14
Czerniak, Julia. (2007). Legibility and Resilience. In J. Czerniak & G. Hargreaves (Eds.), *Large Parks *(pp. 215–251). New York: Princeton Architectural Press. (approx. 36 pages)
Dyrssens, Catharina. (2010*). *Navigating in Heterogeneity: Architectural Thinking and Art-Based Research. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts, edited by Michael Biggs, and Henrik Karlsson. Taylor & Francis group. (approx. 16 pages)
Halprin, Lawrence {1986). Lawrence Halprin: changing places: {exhibition] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 3 July to 24 August, 1986. San Francisco, Calif.: The Museum. Pp. 11-33 (approx. 20 pages)
Lister, Nina-Marie. (2007). Sustainable Large Parks: Ecological Design or Designers’ Ecology? In J. Czerniak & G. Hargreaves (Eds.), Large Parks (pp. 35–57). New York: Princeton Architectural Press. (approx. 20 pages)
Mathur, Anuradha & Cunha, Dilip da (red.) (2014). Design in the terrain of water. [Point Reyes Station, California]: ORO editions. (Read the texts of Mathur & da Cunha, Hirsch, Spirn, Yu, Hood, Braham, Leatherbarrow, Dreiseitl, Echeverria & Gutiérrez, Latz & Todd). Pp. VIII-XII, 1-11, 40-49, 50-65, 82-89, 140-147, 154-185, 202-209. (approx. 90 pages)
McHarg, Ian L. (1992). Design with nature. New York: Wiley. Pp. 162-173 (approx. 10 pages)
Olin, Laurie. (2011). Form, Meaning, and Expression in Landscape Architecture. In Meaning in landscape architecture & gardens: four essays, four commentaries. Treib, Marc. & Gillette, Jane Brown. (eds.). New York: Routledge.** pp. 22-81**. (approx. 60 pages)
Saunders, William S. & Yu, Kongjian (red.). (2012). Designed ecologies: the landscape architecture of Kongjian Yu. Basel: Birkhäuser. Pp. 7-19, 42-49, 152-157 (approx. 20 pages)
Wingren, Carola. (2018). The human body as a sensory tool for designing – in order to understand, express and propose changes in coastal landscapes. Landscape review. A Time for Designing. Vol 18 No 1 (2018). (approx. 16 pages)
**For l****iterature + scientific papers: **Copies of Mathur & da Cunha book to lend. Saunders & Yu exist as electronic recourse (some parts for free).
Reference literature, links etc (to expand by students during the course)
Special issue about landscape design research, different methods are described apart from Wingren, C (2018) above (other methods do not concern sea level rise):
Landscape review. A Time for Designing. Vol 18 No 1 (2018).(https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/index)
Ottinger, G., Spears, E. G., Orff, K., & Lirette, C. (2013). Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction. Southern Spaces. https://www.scapestudio.com/projects/petrochemical-america-book/
Other electronic websites for climate, approach and project search
**Litterature and links connected to Göteborg **
(make your own research, this is just a start mostly in Swedish)
Allik, Martin*. "Prototyping a Park -Landscape Design of Jubileumsparken in Gothenburg, Sweden."* Landscape Architecture Frontiers, vol. 9, no. 2, Apr. 2021, pp. 96+. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A674989197/AONE?u=anon~517c96b3&sid=googleScholar&xid=25fe5c66. Accessed 29 Oct. 2024.
Bäcklin, O. Thorsson, S. Wing, C. (2024). *Urban greenery variation between residential typologies: Implications for recreation. *Trees, Forests and People 16 (2024) 100566
Comprehensive planning from 2019
https://geodata-external.sbk.goteborg.se/files/oversiktsplan/ttop_oversvamningsrisker.pdf
**Comprehensive planning **with attachment on flooding
https://geodata-external.sbk.goteborg.se/files/oversiktsplan/ttop_oversvamningsrisker_bilaga.pdf
https://arkitekten.se/nyheter/de-vann-planpriset/
https://arkitekten.se/nyheter/prisad-plan-frihamnen-slopas/
https://ringon.nu/om-ringon/saltets-arbete/
https://www.arkitekt.se/nyhet/vinnare-sienapriset-2018/
https://raumlabor.net/bathing-culture/
The Storm Safe project (quite technical, but still good to know about)
https://vartgoteborg.se/p/goteborg-vard-for-europeiskt-mote-om-hogvattensskydd/