GLA302 Design-Research Studio in Landscape Architecture

The course aims at providing students with practical experience in how to conduct a design-research project and explore and utilize research and design methods.

Knowledge: - Students gain insight into the site- and case-specific geographical, ecological, economic and socio-political conditions, at the selected case study site.

Skills: - Students are able to apply theoretical, methodological and empirical knowledge to a specific design challenge. - Students are able to present insights from their ongoing and final work in a concise way by means of a coherent graphic representation and oral presentation.

General competences: - Students can gather information from first-hand and secondary sources in a respectful, ethical and transparent way. - Students can critically assess various kinds of information regarding their relevance and value to a project. - Students find ways to creatively analyse and synthesize information, insights, challenges and concerns to a project proposal.

Be prepared for a Masters level self-responsible way of learning. e.g. A critical and creative mindset / moving beyond individual academic comfort zone.

Embrace cultural diversity and difference / Openness to re-evaluate standards, definitions and paradigms and conventional wisdom.

Graphic skills to represent a site and a project in two-dimensional (ideally three-dimensional) ways.

Graphic and communicative skills to comprehend, reflect and synthesize complex concerns.

Analytic and synthetic skills to transfer knowledge in actionable interventions.

375 hours

25% structured teaching: consisting of lectures, short presentations, facilitated fieldwork, consultation of assignments, reviews. the remaining 75% are self-study: individual students or student group project development.

Unntak tiltakspakke 1: Studio

Planlegges lagt til KA.

The studio instructor will meet the students for regular studio sessions.

For this initial GLA studio course, we offer a studio room that is available for a full semester (each day) for the respective batch of Master's students (GLA). It is very important that the graduate students are provided a room where they can meet and work without restriction, and without having to evacuate the room now and then. That room may be used for other classes they take e.g. seminar sessions in GLA303.

Admission to the Master of Landscape Architecture for Global Sustainability program.

Qualified external students may apply to enroll based on an individual case, if course capacity allows.

A portfolio consisting of final comprehensive project outcome.

Submission to smaller assignments will help structure the semester.

The comprehensive project will be presented graphically and with an oral presentation in the final review.

All submissions have to be submitted in ENGLISH ONLY.

Grading: Pass/no pass

Structured teaching: Lectures, short presentations, fieldwork (not compulsory), assignments, reviews, peer reviews.

Ongoing individual student work: weekly individual or group project development with prepared documents (self-study): Students are expected to develop their assignments on a weekly basis based on the recommendations provided in the consultation. Students are expected to bring sketches, maps or other professional graphic meas of representation as a basis for weekly consultation.

GLA Main course responsible / Studio instructors take turns and determine co-instructor

2023 Jorg Sieweke & tbd

2024 Joerg Rekittke & tbd

2025 Jorg Sieweke & tbd

2024 Joerg Rekittke & tbd

375 hours

25% structured teaching incl. consultations during studio class time.

75% self study in studio and in addition to studio time during the week

Based on weekly guidance in structured teaching students will conduct a project in self-study: students will self-responsibly drive an iterative process between research and design explorations during the course of the semester.

Students will contribute to peer learning, showing mutual respect, tolerance and engagement.

_demonstrate analytic and synthetic means to transfer knowledge in actionable interventions.

_test and deploy tools and methods of graphic representation.

The sensor - an expert in the respective studio topic - (aka. external examiner/critic) is determined and invited by the course responsible (aka. studio instructor).

Course responsible and external examiner jointly assess the final project outcome(s) and review the students’ work in the final review. Course responsible and external sensor will discuss and lay out the terms of assessment. Based on the oral and graphic presentation (aka. final review) course responsible and external examiner will elaborate and determine the grades for the work delivered and presented.