Heritage Landscape Design

Identity, continuity and transformation are essential notions of today's spatial design practice. In this course, you will learn how to analyze a given situation, interpret the characteristics of the transformative mechanisms and design a proposal that supports the (spatial) identity and narrative of the site in contact with the public. The scale of the assignment can vary from a historical garden to an (urban) landscape.

Your role is to participate actively in ongoing transformation processes from a multidisciplinary angle. You will prepare design proposals to modify a heritage site in cooperation with stakeholders and governmental bodies. The results will serve as the ground for discussion within these communities.

In preparation for the interactive workshop, you study literature on theory and methods of heritage transformation, landscape design, value assessment and participation with local communities in weekly assignments. You'll team up with students from different disciplines. You will debate theories on place-making. During the workshop you will work with experimental analysis visualization methods and techniques on heritage representation, like sensorial perception, tracing narratives, investigating historical sources, mapping space in various ways, experimental photography, etc. The results of the design workshop will be presented to local stakeholders.

In this course, the Landscape Architecture section wants to strengthen the interaction between landscape transformations and the role of (local) stakeholders in a multidisciplinary setting.