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Why Go Native? Landscaping for Biodiversity and Sustainability Education (Journal Article)
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2007
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate that campus and urban landscaping has important connections to biodiversity conservation, perceptions of natural heritage, sense-of-place, ecological literacy and the role of campus landscapes in the larger community. It also aims to show how campus landscapes express values and perform as a teaching, research and outreach resource. Design/methodology/approach – The paper was written as a literature review applied to a case study. Drawing on E.O. Wilson's idea that society must assign the same value to natural heritage as it does cultural heritage to successfully safeguard biodiversity for the long haul, the paper argues that by altering key elements of human landscapes in strategic places – campus landscapes in this case – to reflect a deep appreciation of natural heritage, we can help shift worldviews to foster real sustainability. It also raises a set of questions based on popular perceptions and some challenges based on the broad literature, then shows how the case study performed in addressing the questions and meeting the challenges. Findings – Stetson University's project helped push the campus' nascent green movement beyond the remedial and reactive approaches too often seen in most regions to a proactive, holistic campaign. Practical implications – The paper should inspire other campuses and organizations to proactively manage landscapes for natural heritage education, biodiversity conservation, and sustainability, just as the featured case study has done in its larger community. Originality/value – In the world of campus sustainability, biodiversity often takes a backseat to energy use, resource consumption and waste management. The paper calls attention to this shortcoming and in so doing hopefully will encourage research and applied projects to address the biodiversity crisis and the role that universities play.
Editorial “Landscape Research” special issue
Journal of design studio, 2022
The landscapes and the memory of the landscapes are evolving with natural and humancentered activities. In some places, landscapes continue to reveal their memory ecologically, socially, and culturally. On the other hand, in some places, landscapes lose their ecologic and socio-cultural archive as a result of globalization. This issue causes to emerge fragile landscapes according to lack of water resources, global warming, a decrease in biodiversity. Preserving the memory of landscapes and using it in the practice of landscape is a deeply crucial issue. The paper tries to answer two questions: How can landscape memory be used in design education? How can a research-based design studio pedagogy be conducted on this approach? This paper focuses on the research-based design approach in landscape architecture education to decode and recode the memory of the landscapes in the design process. ITU Landscape Architecture Department 2019-2020 Fall Semester Landscape Design Studio I-II, which is the case study of the research, worked in Savur, Mardin. The study area provides unexpected landscape carpet including browns and greens together in the valleys of the region that have a rich social and ecological structure. The methodological process of the studio was based on the three approaches which are integrated into each other: The Landscape Memory Model, Action-based Design Studio, and Research-based Design Studio. The model provides a guide for reading the memory of the landscape with various memory codes hidden under the visible and invisible values of it. This core process is used by the students for understanding the cultural and ecological values of the study area and implementing them into the design process. The action-based studio approach allows the tutors to find the problematic points in the design process of each student and resolve them in a positive way. Covering these two approaches, the research-based design studio expresses the discovery of the knowledge through a strong research process. The results are as followed: Implementing a research-based process ensured a place-based and innovative perspective to shape a design concept. Using the pre-specified landscape memory model empowered the research phase and helped students to analyze and discern the place with their own perceptions. Action-based flow allowed the instructors to leave the conventional studio performing and helped to use in-situ (special to the studio) instructing techniques within the semester. This paper may be influential for especially landscape design studios and relocate conventional studio approaches with more flexible and progressive techniques to understand the place and beyond.
Bridging the Gap Between Landscape Architecture and Ecology in Teaching and Design Practice.
Bridging the Gap. ECLAS Conference 2016, Rapperswil, Switzerland. Conference Proceedings., 2016
In a time of ecological crisis and on a man-made planet landscape architects are faced with major new challenges. We discuss growing experiences at the Department of Landscape Architecture at HSR in Rapperswil when preparing Bachelor and Master students in landscape architecture with these novel challenges of their profession at all levels of the curriculum: (1) basics in natural sciences, (2) design classes, (3) history and theory of landscape architecture, (4) interdisciplinary classes co-taught by landscape architects and ecologists, and (5) student projects.
Reconciling the Living Landscape with Our Living Culture
Journal of research in architecture and planning, 2015
Conservation townscape ideas and understandings move with generations and innovations (Fallowwell et.al, 2010). As new generations respond to an electronic and globalised world, daily life and public policy seem to respond to events, often leaving the settings to take care of themselves. Often the only environmental response is to ensure basic facilities, or to enhance for the benefit of an essentially tourist market. The historic context of many decisions is having a hard time. One is not to compliment oneself on a job well done, nor does society often understand what one is doing. It is seen as a desirable commodity for those who can afford it, a significant factor in Western planning perhaps, but modest when faced with community protest for basic facilities. It is somewhat of a luxury, and it is treated as such. Buildings are not the only places to start with this idea of townscape heritage, it is perhaps the stories that are most important. This can be demonstrated by a small example. An American colleague, Henry Sanoff, asked a group of his students to conduct surveys in a small town in North Carolina with regard to how that town should spend a certain sum of money that was available for building conservation. They identified two potential buildings to be conserved. One was an historic courthouse, which naturally had all sorts of
Landscape Architecture Magazine, 2007
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Ecology, community and delight: a trivalent approach to landscape education
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2002
This paper presents the results of an investigation into underlying attitudes and values held by landscape architects. This research had two main components, an analytical study of landscape architectural literature; and a series of in-depth interviews with British landscape practitioners which were then analysed with the aid of NUD.IST software. The paper identifies recurrent themes or discourses, which emerged analysis of literature, and interview transcripts and relates them in a conceptual framework based on three fields of value-the aesthetic, the social and the aesthetic. It postulates that there is a 'trivalent' approach to landscape architectural practice which optimises values across all three areas.