Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik
Syftet med kursen är att ge djup förståelse för olika teorier och synvinklar inom landskapsarkitektur och design genom historien och deras relation till landskapsarkitektur i praktiken.
Information från kursledaren
Dear all,
Welcome to the course Landscape architecture: history, theory and practice! We are looking forward to seeing you on September 01, at 13.00 in Ateljén, Ulls hus (for directions, see below).
A preliminary schedule is posted on Canvas, and you will also find the literature list.
This year, the course is arranged to facilitate seminars, lectures, workshops and reviews. We also aim to host guest lecturers from abroad. Stay tuned!
All the best,
Burcu and Sofia
Map over campus: https://www.slu.se/globalassets/mw/org-styr/univadm/karta-ultuna2.pdf. Floor plan Ulls hus, on page 2: https://internt.slu.se/globalassets/mw/stod-serv/campus-och-hus/ulls-hus/ullshus-husguide-plan-1-6-m.plantext.pdf)
Kursvärdering
Andra kursvärderingar för LK0313
Läsåret 2024/2025
Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik (LK0313-10153)
2024-09-02 - 2024-10-31
Läsåret 2023/2024
Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik (LK0313-10007)
2023-08-28 - 2023-10-30
Läsåret 2022/2023
Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik (LK0313-10035)
2022-08-29 - 2022-10-31
Läsåret 2021/2022
Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik (LK0313-10116)
2021-08-30 - 2021-11-01
Läsåret 2020/2021
Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik (LK0313-10178)
2020-08-31 - 2020-11-01
Läsåret 2019/2020
Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik (LK0313-10034)
2019-09-02 - 2019-10-31
Läsåret 2018/2019
Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik (LK0313-10054)
2018-09-03 - 2018-11-11
Kursplan och övrig information
Kursplan
LK0313 Landskapsarkitektur: historia, teori och praktik, 15,0 Hp
Landscape architecture: History, theory and practiceÄmnen
LandskapsarkitekturUtbildningens nivå
Avancerad nivåModuler
Benämning | Hp | Kod |
---|---|---|
P-uppgifter och genomgångar | 7,5 | 0002 |
Essä och seminarier | 7,5 | 0003 |
Fördjupning
Avancerad nivå, har endast kurs/er på grundnivå som förkunskapskravAvancerad nivå (A1N)
Betygsskala
Kraven för kursens olika betygsgrader framgår av betygskriterier, som ska finnas tillgängliga senast vid kursstart.
Språk
EngelskaFörkunskapskrav
Kunskaper motsvarande 150 hp varav 90 hp i landskapsarkitektur och/eller arkitektur och/eller stadsplanering och/eller kulturgeografi och/eller samhällsplanering samt Engelska 6 eller antagen till Masterprogrammet Landskapsarkitektur för hållbar urbanisering.Mål
Att ge djup förståelse för olika teorier och synvinklar inom landskapsarkitektur och design genom historien och deras relation till landskapsarkitektur i praktiken.
Innehåll
Kursen består av föreläsningar, seminarier, studiebesök och att skriva en uppsats. Föreslagen litteraturlista omfattar historiska och samtida utövande inom landskapsarkitektur, designteori och landskapsarkitektur/arkitekturteori. En studieresa till en stad eller plats i Europa, och besök i Uppsala-Stockholm ingår i kursen. Olika ämnen kommer att diskuteras i seminarieform.
Studenterna kommer att producera en konceptuell design som reflekterar över diskuterade teorier och historiska fallstudier.
Studenterna kommer att producera en analytisk text med en kritisk bedömning av ett valt landskapsarkitekturprojekt. Studenterna kommer att skriva en reflekterande text om sin egen syn som designer i förhållande till givna föreläsningar, studiebesök, litteratur och seminarier. Särskild uppmärksamhet kommer att ägnas åt kritiskt tänkande och tillverkning av grafisk kommunikation som skisser, foton, figurer och diagram.
Exkursioner, studiebesök, seminarier och aktiviteter kopplade till dem är obligatoriska.
Betygsformer
Kraven för kursens olika betygsgrader framgår av betygskriterier, som ska finnas tillgängliga senast vid kursstart.Examinationsformer och fordringar för godkänd kurs
Godkända skriftliga arbeten, konceptuell design och deltagande i obligatoriska moment.
- Examinatorn har, om det finns skäl och är möjligt, rätt att ge en kompletteringsuppgift till den student som inte blivit godkänd på en examination.
- Om studenten har ett beslut från SLU om riktat pedagogiskt stöd på grund av funktionsnedsättning, kan examinatorn ge ett anpassat prov eller låta studenten genomföra provet på ett alternativt sätt.
- Om denna kursplan läggs ned, ska SLU besluta om övergångsbestämmelser för examination av studenter, som antagits enligt denna kursplan och ännu inte blivit godkända.
- För examination av självständigt arbete (examensarbete) gäller dessutom att examinatorn kan tillåta studenten att göra kompletteringar efter inlämningsdatum. Mer information finns i utbildningshandboken.
Övriga upplysningar
- Rätten att delta i undervisning och/eller handledning gäller endast det kurstillfälle, som studenten blivit antagen till och registrerad på.
- Om det finns särskilda skäl, har studenten rätt att delta i moment som kräver obligatorisk närvaro vid ett senare kurstillfälle. Mer information finns i utbildningshandboken.
Ytterligare information
Studiebesök finansieras av studenten. Information om kostnaderna kommer att vara tillgängliga på kurshemsidan 4 veckor före kursstart.Ansvarig institution/motsvarande
Institutionen för stad och land
Kompletterande uppgifter
Litteraturlista
***LK0313 Landscape architecture: history, theory and practice / 2025 ***
This course explores the history, theory, and practice of landscape architecture. It is intended for masters-level students in the landscape architecture professional program (LA) and beginning students in the Master in Sustainable Urbanization (LASU). Space permitting, the course is also open to students in any other master program at SLU or other Swedish university. The course is conducted in English.
The course main objective is "to provide deep understanding of different landscape architecture and design theories and viewpoints through history and their relation to landscape architecture practice." This year, the course is organized along five different themes, where "history, theory and practice" as different perspectives/approaches to landscape architecture as a profession, an area of research, and as an object will be intertwined. There are lists of readings for the themes, along with lectures and introductions, to support your work during the course.
According to the course syllabus, the course includes the following learning objectives:
Knowledge and understanding
- understand theories and concepts in landscape architecture and design
- analyze major fields of landscape architecture research, their methodology and relation to other design disciplines
- discuss key theories and case studies of landscape architecture history in Sweden and internationally; critically relate these knowledges to the development of modern society
- elaborate practical implications from theories in landscape architecture and design
- discuss main theoretical viewpoints in today’s landscape architecture and its relation to sustainability
Competence and skills
- apply key landscape architecture theories and historical precedences into a landscape architecture design concept
Judgement and approach
- reflect on a personal approach in the field of landscape architecture and future professional role
- decode contemporary landscapes and reflect on them from a personal point of view concerning design and ethical standpoints.
Theme 1
Contemporary debates and current topics
The first part covers the role of history and theory in landscape architecture and the second part focuses on the contemporary debates in landscape architecture.
**Part 1: History, theory and practice in landscape architecture **
This section elaborates the role of history in landscape architectural theory, criticism and practice, introduces some of the critical views on history in landscape architecture and discusses the implications of those views on the theory and practice.
Compulsory readings (Each student should choose 2 of the readings to write reflection)
Boone, K. (2020). “Notes Toward a History of Black Landscape Architecture”, Places Journal. https://doi.org/10.22269/201028
Foster, J. and Schopf, H. (2017). Mineral Migration: Extracting, Recomposing, Demolishing, and Recolonizing Toronto’s Landscape. In Material Culture (edited by Jane Hutton). Berlin: Jovis.
Giannetto R.F. (2013). “The Use of History in Landscape Architectural Nostalgia“, Change over time, vol. 3 no. 1: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/504756.
Hirsch, A. (2025). Is Landscape Elitist? In Landscape Is…! Essays on the Meaning of Landscape (edited by Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim. Routledge: London and New York
Hunt, J.D. (2004). Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture. Routledge & CRC Press. (introduction)
Swaffield, S. R. (2006). “Theory and Critique in Landscape Architecture: Making Connections”, Journal of Landscape Architecture, 1(1), 22–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2006.9723361
Swaffield, S. R. (2002). Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. University of Pennsylvania Press (introduction and conclusion + review the chapter titles).
Upton, D. (1991). “Architectural History or Landscape History?”, Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), 44(4), 195–199. https://doi.org/10.2307/1425140
Way, T. (2020). “Why History for Designers?” (Part 1), PLATFORM. Retrieved June 16, 2022, from https://www.platformspace.net/home/why-history-for-designers-part-1+ Part 2
Zewde, S. (2017). Transatlantic Memory: Material and Immaterial Design at the Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Material Culture (edited by Jane Hutton). Berlin: Jovis.
**Recommended readings**
Angelo, H. (2021). How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and Making of Cities and Citizens, Chicago U. Press (Introduction: pp.1-26)
Corner, J. (2000). Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory. Princeton University Press.
hooks, bell (1991) “Theory as Liberatory Practice”, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 2. Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlf/vol4/iss1/2
Lipsitz, G. (2007). “The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race Theorizing the Hidden Architecture of Landscape”, Landscape Journal, 26(1), 10–23. https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.26.1.10
Mitchell, D. (2016). “Cultural landscapes: The dialectical landscape – recent landscape research in human geography”, Progress in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132502ph376pr
Mitchell, W. J. T. (Ed.). (2002). Landscape and Power, Second Edition. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo3626791.html (introduction)
Taylor, D. E. (2009). The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change. Duke University Press.
Part 2: Contemporary debates
This section discusses some current theories in landscape architecture that reflect various social and environmental concerns, criticisms, and directions and how they are relevant for the issues of sustainability.
Compulsory readings (Each student should choose 2 of the readings to write reflection)
Brenner, N. (n.d.). “The agency of design in an age of urbanization—dialogue with Daniel Ibañez,” in Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization. Basel: Bauwelt Fundamente Series, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2016, 224-236.
Spencer, D. (2017). “Agency and Artifice in the Environment of Neoliberalism”, in E. Wall & T. Waterman (Eds.), Landscape and Agency (1st ed., pp. 177–187). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315647401-14
Hutton, J. (2020). Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of material movements, Routledge. (Introduction + one additional chapter that will be decided at course start).
Reisinger, K. (2024). Two Mining Areas: Spaces of Care amid Extraction. Architecture and Culture, 0(0), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2023.2219115
Yiğit-Turan, B., et.al. (2022). “Landscape architecture criticism in the Anthropocene”, Journal of Landscape Architecture no 3. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195222?needAccess=true&role=button
**Recommended readings**
Bélanger, P. (2020). “No Design on Stolen Land: Dismantling Design’s Dehumanising White Supremacy”, Architectural Design, 90(1), 120–127. https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.2535
Dang, T. K. (2021). “Decolonizing landscape”, Landscape Research, 46(7), 1004–1016. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2021.1935820
Decolonizing the Green City: From Environmental Privilege to Emancipatory Green Justice. (n.d.). https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0014
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz & Tintin Wulia (2020). ’Migration’ Retrieved June 20, 2022, from PARSE https://parsejournal.com/Issue 10—Spring 2020 Editorial
Fleming, B. (2021). “Frames and Fictions: Designing a Green New Deal Studio Sequence”, Journal of Architectural Education, 75(2), 192–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2021.1947673
Gould, K. A., & Lewis, T. L. (2017). “The Environmental Injustice of Green Gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Prospect Park”. In A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis. New York: Routledge,
Hood, W. and Mitchell Tada, G. (2020). Black Landscapes Matter, University of Virginia Press. (several chapters)
Rothenberg, J., & Lang, S. (2017). “Repurposing the High Line: Aesthetic experience and contradiction in West Chelsea”, City, Culture and Society, 9, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2015.10.001
Scott, E. E., & Swenson, K. (Eds.). (2015). Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (1st ed.). University of California Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1xxxgv
***Theme 2***
Site explorations
In this section, we will discuss a variety of theories and approaches that are utilized in site and place explorations. In addition to this, we will elaborate on different points of view about representation, mapping, and cartography.
Compulsory readings (Each student should choose 2 of the readings to write reflection)
Corner, J. (1999). “The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention”, in Mappings, edited by Denis Cosgrove. 213-52. London: Reaktion.
Hutton, J. (2017). Material as Method, In Material Culture (edited by Jane Hutton). Berlin: Jovis.
Kahn, A and Burns, C. (2021). Site Matters: Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design. Routledge (chapters 14, 15, and 16 + Afterwords)
Amoo-Adare, E. (2011). “Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women and the Politics of Urban Space”, in O. Oyĕwùmí (Ed.), Gender Epistemologies in Africa (pp. 101–118). Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230116276_6
Recommended readings
Halder, S. Michel, B. (2018) This is not an atlas: A global collection of counter-cartographies (First edition). (2018). [Map]. Transcript Verlag. Introduction pp. 12-37, https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839445198.pdf
Theme 3
Place
Part 1: place
The various theories of place will be discussed in this section, along with a critical analysis of the relationship between these theories and the politics of places.
Compulsory readings (Each student should choose 2 of the readings to write reflection)
Hayden, Dolores. (2009). “Urban Landscape History: The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space”, Understanding Ordinary Landscapes, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, pp. 111-133. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300185614-010
Tuck, E. and McKenzie, M. (2015). Place in Research: Theory, Methodology and Methods, Routledge (pp.1-48)
Pred, A. 1997. “Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: Racisms, Racialized Spaces and the Popular Geographical Imagination in Sweden”, Antipode 29 (4): 383–416. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8330.00053.
Recommended readings
McKittrick, K. (2006)* Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle *(introduction: Geographic Stories) Minnesota University Press
Lipsitz, G. (2011). How Racism Takes Place. Temple University Press. (sections 1, 2, 5)
http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/slub-ebooks/detail.action?docID=660533
Hayden, D. (1995). The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. MIT Press.
Pred, A. (2000). Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination, University of California Press.
Part 2: Place making/unmaking
The concept of 'place' will be discussed in this section, along with its use in urban planning and design practices, as well as the criticisms directed toward these practices. Additionally, it will provide alternative understandings of place in planning and design that focus on the healing of neglected and oppressed populations rather than on their exploitation.
Compulsory readings (Each student should choose 2 of the readings to write reflection)
Abrams, K. (2017). “Hijinks in Harlem: The Whiteness of ‘Place’”, Avery Review 24 (June 2017), http://averyreview.com/issues/24/hijinks-inharlem.
Davis, Ujijji, “The Bottom: The Emergence and Erasure of Black American Urban Landscapes”, Avery Review 34 (October 2018), https://www. averyreview.com/issues/34/the-bottom.
Anguelovski, I., & Gottlieb, R. (2014). Neighborhood As Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City. MIT Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/slub-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3339756 (chapter 6)
Yigit Turan, B. (2021). “Superkilen: Coloniality, Citizenship and Border Politics”, In Landscape Citizenships. Tim Waterman, Jane Wolff, and Ed Wall (eds.). New York and London: Routledge.
Recommended readings
Claesson, R. (2017). “Doing and Re-doing Cultural Heritages: Making space for a variety of narratives”, (ed.)., in Meike Schalk, Thérèse Kristiansson, Ramia Mazé (Ed.), Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialisms, Activisms, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections (pp. 43-56). Paper presented at: AADR, Spurbuchverlag
Björgvinsson, E., Keshavarz, M. (2020). “Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of Malmö”, in Dancus, A., Hyvönen, M., Karlsson, M. (eds) *Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture*. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37382-5\_12](
Theme 4
***Subjectivity ***
**Part 1: positionality, power and privilege, reflexivity **
This section will explain how subjectivity and positionality relate to investigating sites and places, carrying out design practice, and writing. Both of these notions are typically kept hidden in landscape architecture processes, and this section will expose you to how they work and to think how they should be reflected on.
Compulsory readings (Each student should choose 2 of the readings to write reflection)
Schmidt, S.J. (2017) “Hacked Landscapes: Tensions, Borders, and Positionality in Spatial Literacy”, Journal of Geography, 116:3, 99-108, DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2016.1257046
Parikh, A. (2020). “Insider-outsider as process: Drawing as reflexive feminist methodology during fieldwork”, Cultural Geographies, 27(3), 437–452. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019887755
Richards, M-L (2019). “Out of Line. Erasure and vulnerability as sites of subversion”, Future Architecture Library, (n.d.). Retrieved March 5, 2021, from https://futurearchitecturelibrary.org/archifutures-articles/volum-6-agency/out-of-line/
Rose, G. (1997). “Situating knowledges: positionality, reflexivities and other tactics”, *Progres