Undergraduate Course: Landscape Architecture Context 2B (ARCH08043)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course will address the significance of established and emerging theoretical themes within the discipline of Landscape Architecture and build on patterns of enquiry established in Landscape Architecture Context 2A. The course will further the students ability to carry forward an independent position in their own theoretical studies and offer guidance as to suitable methodologies of scholarly enquiry. The course will also address relevant approaches towards the critical evaluation of the work of others. |
| Course description |
The course will examine the complex and shifting nature of landscape through enquiry related to the interpretation of landscape as a constantly mediated entity in both social and environmental contexts. Course content will address the context of landscape architectural practice today with a particular focus on how Landscape Architects read, work with and ultimately transform sites. A focused enquiry related to time, ecology and resilience will provide a pedagogical background from which students can draw forth their own disciplinary research and a personalised line of enquiry.
Students will be encouraged to discover and examine Interdisciplinary theory from art, science and engineering and reflect upon its significance to Landscape Architectural discourse.
Lectures, given by staff and invited experts will be followed by discursive sessions where students can probe the material presented through the lens of their own developing enquiry. Students will be asked to format questions in advance of lectures to enrich post lecture discussion.
Authoring of summaries and abstracts will be considered as a key moment in the course to demonstrate an independent, reasoned and well argued position in relation to consistent and emergent challenges within the field.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Day visits by coach. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an ability to translate and interpret key theories in Landscape Architecture.
- Demonstrate an ability to scope wider theoretical and disciplinary contexts in order to formulate a sequence of core themes that represent the students own disciplinary interests.
- Develop a clear research question that draws from core themes in the form of a research abstract.
- Demonstrate an ability to structure and advance theoretical enquiry through appropriate research methods and techniques.
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Reading List
Burns,C and Kahn,A (2005) Site Matters, Routledge
Corner, J (1999) Recovering Landscape, Princeton Arch. Press, NY.
Corner, J (2014) The Landscape Imagination
Cosgrove, D (1984) Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, University of Wisconsin Press
Hill, K and Johnson, B (2001) Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning, Island Press
Swaffield, S (2002) Theory in Landscape Architecture - A Reader, University of Pennsylvania Press
Thayer, R (1994) Gray World, Green Heart: Technology, Nature and Sustainable Landscape Wiley & Sons, NY
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Demonstrate a knowledge of the scope, defining features, and main areas of the subject/discipline/sector. Including; a discerning understanding of a defined range of core theories, concepts, principles and terminology.
Apply knowledge, skills and understanding: in using a range of professional skills, techniques, practices and/or materials associated with the subject/discipline/sector, a few of which are advanced and /or complex.
Undertake critical analysis, evaluation and/or synthesis of ideas, concepts, information and issues that are within the common understandings in a subject/ discipline/sector; use a range of approaches to formulate and critically evaluate evidence-based solutions/responses to defined and/or routine problems and issues.
Convey complex information to a range of audiences and for a range of purposes
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| Keywords | landscape architecture,resilience,landscape reclamation,landscape engineering,temporality |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Lisa Mackenzie
Tel: (0131 6)51 5797
Email: l.mackenzie@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Karen Biggar
Tel: (0131 6)51 5803
Email: Karen.Biggar@ed.ac.uk |
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