• Cotutela con mondo esterno
• Soft Skills

The course in Landscape Representation will be based on the fact that the space we are dealing with can be considered as a book: it has to be read, understood (according to specific language, grammar and words) and finally used for a specific purpose, in our case corresponding to the intention of transforming the existing space into a new one, resulting from our design actions.
The course will be introduced by an historic critical review of various kinds of representations referring to different kinds of landscapes: natural or resulting from the rich interaction between natural facts and human interventions. The aim is that of cultivating the use of drawing as a fundamental base for crithical interpretation of places based on visual thinking, and as a tool to express design intentions at territorial scale.
We shall try to learn from the direct experience of places (also referring to case studies) and we will use the common representation tools to explain how they “perform” before our intervention (phase of analysis) and after our proposals (phase of design).
This methodology is particularly suitable if applied to the contemporary complex landscapes that need most care, such as the urban fringes, where the traditional cityscape is fading into a combination of built and unbuilt elements: infrastructures, urban voids, wastelands and post-industrial ruins, with mixed characters taken from urban, industrial, infrastructural and agricultural landscapes.
Students will be asked to produce interpretation drawings, free to use any kind of communication tools, provided that the representations are effective: sketches, thematic mapping, diagrams, sections, simple work models with photographic and video support will be the most common forms of representation.

We expect each student to be able to present five sets of products:

1. A crithical description of one Landscape Design Drawing (chosen by the student) and a copy of it in A3 format;
2. First description of a landscape (Chosen by the student), reported in A3 format. This part is mainly directed to explain "where" the place is, with a main attitude towards a "looking from above" point of view (general maps, sections, views).
3. Main features of the chosen place, reported in A3 format. This part is mainly directed to explain "what" are the structural characters of the place, mainly using a "walking through" point of view (detailed views, sections).
4. sketchbook in A5 format, containing analysis, interpretations, impressions of the place that demonstrate a process of understanding and selection of facts resulting from a direct experience of the place.
5. Presentation of the work done in ppt/pdf format.

All drawings must be presented in original elaboration (no copy or digitalization are accepted).

The products evaluation will be completed with an oral discussion, including references from lectures and from proposed bibliography.

We shall evaluate in first instance the students¿ skills to communicate in a clear and appropriate way the basic process of a place representation (to read, to understand, to explain) with care to drawing and linguistic accuracy. Secondly, we shall evaluate how the products resulting from this first phase of analysis can be practically used in a further process of design actions.