Dutch Landscape: Design Studio

In the design course you formulate your own assignment within a defined challenge, in which different scales and perspectives come together: water issues and the social structure of a rural society and ongoing spatial claims (like farming, energy production, recreation, nature development) on the scale of a polder landscape.

The aim of the design is to explore the transition of landscape as a means of adapting and giving expression to existing landscape patterns, leading to new landscape architectural (spatial and experiential) compositions in which beauty, landscape processes, functionality and inclusiveness (of people, animals and plants) coincide.

You will design through scales from concept to detail, with an understanding of the area of influence, area of effect and area of control. The design is based on a landscape analysis, understanding the spatial structure and patterns, which should lead to a spatial composition for an imaginable future, allowing for and anticipating on social and ecological processes. You learn how to design through time: from past relevant periods to new conditions for a desired future, according to the assignment that is defined and developed by yourself.