LNAK10082U Urbanism Studio
MSc Programme in Landscape Architecture
This course is an advanced design studio. The studio simulates an architectural office.
A high degree of student involvement and presence will be
expected during the studio. All students are expected to attend and
take part in the project crits. The studio is to enhance the
individual student ability to practice urbanism in a context of an
unexpected professional future. The course encourages students to
investigate and develop landscape architecture as a multifacetted
gaze on urbanism through design interventions on a specific site.
The studio provides the student with the abilities to approach,
identify, analyse, prioritise, argue and (re)design an urban
situation, e.g. the contemporary city can be understood as a
landscape entity. Focus is on how to analyse, conceptualise,
question, design and intervene on different scales. Special
interest is paid to training how students are able to frame, argue,
design and discuss a challenge and their ability to relate this to
a site-specific Danish context through a spatial design.
The studio does not restrict the students work to specific
theoretical positions or themes. Instead students are asked to
position and engage their proposals to theoretical positions.
Designs are to be presented, discussed and evaluated in plenum.
Through the design intervention the individual student is to learn
to take part in the professional debates within urbanism. How can
urbanism be studied and investigated as a design solution with
roots in the past, an understanding of the present and as an
expectation to meet the challenge of the future?
Special focus is paid to discussions of how potential
transformation of a site towards new use, new aesthetics and new
meaning of the urban can be conceptualized, argued and contested in
an landscape architectural design. Students are continually trained
in exploring arguments for and against their design
intervention.
The main aim of the course is to train the students ability to work as landscape architects with the urban.
Learning Outcome
Knowledge
- insight into understanding and framing key aspects of urbanism through the design project work itself
Skills
- structure complicated urbanism challenges into new possible spatial programming and designs which can hold the complexity and contradictions of the urban
- describe and reflect on related and relevant biological regulating aspects, design interventions and social empowerment
Competences
- academic, professional, artistic, and scientific understanding of the different aspects and challenges of urban design
- relational scale awareness about different scales of which different design challenges play out, and how to engage the spatial potentials of the context through an architectural design.
- communicate, present and argue urban designs that show a new modernity in the relationship between nature and human
Theories of Urban Design is recommended.
The studio is seen as a test bed, workshop and a working office in which the role of course responsible are to facilitate a debate on urban design and arguments of interventions among the students – rather than dictate answers on how and on how not to design in urbanism. Nobody will know the final outcome of the studio, of urbanism.
The teaching methods applied include scientific and artistic methods as well as techniques for sketching and presentation. Special emphasis is put on sketching by doing film experiments, diagrams, models, as well as sketching done on tracing paper, in debates and in texts. The theory of education is that the learning and designing is done in combination of individual and group work. Central in the learning proces is the dialog with tutors and fellow students around the drawing board and presentations, where fellow students and tutors comment and give constructive criticism.
Reading of selected chapters and essays in the literature will form the basis for informal debate sessions and is to provide different perspectices on the studio production. In addition there will be held lectures and introductions by guests and supervisors. Throughout the course a plenum session of presentation, debate and evaluation is scheduled, ideally, once a week.
A study trip is offered as an option to explore urbanism in a different context and configuration.
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 20
- Excursions
- 20
- Guidance
- 40
- Lectures
- 20
- Preparation
- 20
- Project work
- 292
- Total
- 412
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- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 20 minWritten assignmentHand-in of Group project (Posters and models) and A3 catalogue, followed by 20 minutes oral examination. The oral examination consists of a group presentation and a 10 minutes individual oral examination.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- External censorship
- Re-exam
Re-submission of Group project (Posters and models) and A3 catalogue followed by 20 minutes oral examination.
Criteria for exam assesment
See learning outcome
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- LNAK10082U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 2
- Schedule
- Versailles Studio - full time.
- Course capacity
- 40 students (1 class of 40).
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Geosciences and Management
Contracting department
- Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management
Course responsibles
- Anne Madsbjerg (4-65727165446d6b72326f7932686f)
Lecturers
Mads Farsø