SAL-80803 The Metropolitan Landscape: Bachelor Completion 1

Course

Credits 3.00

Language of instruction:

Dutch

Assumed knowledge on:

voor specialisatie landschapsarchitectuur: LAR 31306 en LAR 31806, voor specialisatie ruimtelijke planning: LUP 30806 en LUP 32306

Contents:

This course focuses on the exploration of a complex spatial problem by an interdisciplinary team of students. The practical work consists of an integral case study at the regional level. The course does not primarily aim at acquiring new knowledge, but rather at the exchange and application of already existing knowledge and skills. Furthermore, the course challenges students to reflect about their own specialist disciplinary approach and those of others.

Aims:

- independently develop a work plan and an organizational group strategy with assessable interim and end results;
- a research-oriented co operation between disciplines, focused on an accurate description of the complex spatial problem;
- group inventory and mobilization of existing knowledge and skills;
- recognizing and acknowledging individual group members' disciplinary contributions - presenting the research trajectory that has resulted into the group's end product in an explicit and transparent way;
- defending the end product as a co-operative effort.

Activities:

- the core activities simulate the work of a research bureau;
- lectures by experts from the planning region (a planner and an architect), who each discuss the problem and their own contribution in the planning process;
- excursions to the planning area;
- a broad exploration of the subject;
- problem definition;
- an indicative integral exploration of possible solutions, resulting in several spatial scenarios, planning concepts and designs;
- identification of an individual disciplinary problem, which constitutes the starting point of Bachelor's completion 2;
- an evaluation of one's individual disciplinary role in the process;
- a concluding debate.

Examination:

Assessable products are:
- multimedia group presentation (posters, maquettes, PowerPoint, slideshow);
- an A3 format booklet containing clear description of the research process and outcomes;
- an individual reflection paper (about 1.000 words) on one's own disciplinary role. The interdisciplinary process and the end product