Landscape Architecture and Planning (BLP) / BSc

Profile

The BSc programme Landscape Architecture and Planning focuses on the deliberate construction and reconstruction of the environment. It involves research, planning and design of landscape to create, maintain, protect and enhance places to be functional, meaningful, sustainable and beautiful. In order to comprehend the complex relationships between people, nature and landscape the study integrates concepts and approaches from both the creative arts and the natural and social sciences and incorporates the latest advances in technology. It combines the professional skills of physical design and spatial planning with the ability to conduct research and express a scholarly attitude. Landscape Architecture and Planning is concerned both with the creative process of making plans and designs on various spatial scales and with different temporal horizons, with the organization of interactive or participatory decision making processes towards the generation of plans and policies and with the development and management of scientific knowledge. This is done in an integrative manner, whereby planning and design decisions are legitimized by sound academic knowledge and the validity and utility of knowledge is tested in the process of planning and design. The study focuses primarily on the rural-urban metropolitan landscape of The Netherlands and Western Europe in a dynamic and global context of cultural, ecological, technological, economic and political transformations.

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this BSc programme graduates are expected to:
- be able to distinguish different design and planning practices, theories, concepts and approaches;
- have the creativity and power of imagination necessary to represent a future landscape and spatial organization and can distinguish different planning or design methods;
- be able to present models, alternatives and potential scenarios of past, present and future landscape interventions on interrelating scales and/or research results both visually, orally and in text;
- be able to carry out a descriptive and critical analysis of the physical and social dimensions of the landscape and its historical development under the influence of natural and cultural processes in order to understand the multidimensional aspects of landscape;
- be able to execute a landscape research under supervision: the student is able to formulate a research proposal, able to extract research questions from design and planning practice and to execute a literature review;
- have scientific curiosity and is pro-active;
- be critical, self-reflective and able to express an opinion;
- be able to work according to planning and is reliable, honest and incorruptible both in individual and group work;
- be able to design and plan his/her own learning path (under supervision) based on continuous evaluation upon personal knowledge, skills and performance.

Majors

- Landscape Architecture;
- Spatial Planning.

Programme Director

Drs J.F.B. Philipsen
Phone: 0317-(4)82771
Email: jan.philipsen@wur.nl

Study Adviser(s)

- Ir J.P.A. van Nieuwenhuize
Phone: 0317-(4)83474
Email: blp.bsc@wur.nl
- Ir C.Q.J.M. Heukels
Phone: 0317-(4)81896
Email: blp.bsc@wur.nl
Consultation hours: weekly based on reservation at http://appointments.owi.wur.nl/blp. For urgent questions, please contact Jannie Welling (secretary) by email: jannie.welling@wur.nl

Programme Committee

Chair: Prof. dr ir A. van den Brink
Secretary: J. Welling

Internet

http://www.blp.wur.nl

Study Association

Genius Loci
Forum building, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, 6708 PB Wageningen
Internet: http://www.stgeniusloci.nl/

Unconditional Admission to the MSc

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MDR Development and Rural Innovation
MGI Geo-information Science
MLE Leisure Tourism and Environment
MLP Landscape Architecture and Planning