• Cotutela con mondo esterno
• Blended Learning & Flipped Classroom
• Soft Skills

The Landcape Design Studio aims at defining and experimenting (at the different scales at which Landscape Architecture works) categories, instruments and strategies to describe, interpret and transform open spaces and landscapes, in their natural and anthropological components, also in relation to the historical transformations and to the social-economic and territorial context to which they belong, with particular reference to the objectives of sustainable development.

The studio problematizes issues of orientation and experience, scale and pattern, topographic form, climatic and vegetative influences, and varied ecological processes that help define open spaces, in urban and natural context. In the center of the sequence of design studios along the master program, the course helps students develop spatial literacy and proficiency in diverse modes of inquiry in landscape architecture.

Landscape Architecture is often required not only to build over the ground, but also to transform the ground through a sort of “moulding”. The course of Geomorphology and Physical Geography is integrated to the studio with the aim of providing the fundamental knowledges in order to reach coherent and workable design choices in relation to the geological substratum as well as in relation to the the vegetation structure of the site

Students:

- acquire knowledge and understanding of the techniques and tools for landscape design;

- are capable of facing a critical approach to all necessary scales of a landscape design with advanced levels of specialisation and detail;

- are capable of facing design problems where soil, terrain, geology, mineral resources, climate, water, plants, wildlife, and living systems interactions are major drivers;

- acquire high levels of understanding of design research, strategic thinking, technical resolution and graphic expression.

Course Description:

This Landscape Design Studio focuses on stimulating students to undertake innovative approaches to landscape architecture. To draw that purpose, this Design Studio foster participants to develop critical points of view and offer the knowledge and tools necessary to fulfil all requirements to achieve what we called ‘sustainable landscape’. The philosophy on its base is replacing humans on the first level of importance. Through the process, it will be recalled the attention to the real needs of people. The emphasis will be on issues related to the environment and ecology and the urgent need to reach sustainable environment and landscapes. The project site is on Puglia coast (Italy). It covers issues that span from territorial to urban to detail scale. 

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Articulated into two steps:

• Midterm open critic of the ‘work progress’
• The final project proposal presentation. Theoretical aspects and specifics technical measures and precautions achieved during the course must be highlighted during the explanation of the project. Students are invited to present the complete project process through a short PowerPoint accompanied by models and detailed panels that will have to be hung during the presentation and discussion of the project.

United Nations (2010)