2024
Contemporaneity and Landscape Architecture
Name: Contemporaneity and Landscape Architecture
Code: PAO13836M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Landscape Architecture
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
At the level of knowledge: To develop critical mass in relation to the energy, social and ethical problems that arise from a more urban Earth. Continue to develop and deepen the basic principles of Landscape Architecture that are frequently present in several contemporary currents of thought.
At the level of competences: To develop the critical reflection and creative response that Landscape Architecture can offer for the resolution of contemporary society issues regarding ethical, environmental, aesthetic and social issues.
At the level of competences: To develop the critical reflection and creative response that Landscape Architecture can offer for the resolution of contemporary society issues regarding ethical, environmental, aesthetic and social issues.
Contents
Contextualization in time and space, of speech and practice of landscape architecture.
Theoretical and practical answer that the Landscape Architecture offers to current issues, including:
- Homogenization versus uniqueness
- Landscapes of consumption versus sustainable landscapes; consumption scenery versus enjoyment of the landscape
- Compression of time and space versus evolutionary progression; temporality artificial versus natural temporality
- Individual versus community; private space versus public space; intolerance versus inclusiveness
- Fragmentation versus continuity
The themes should be included in the areas of the students greatest personal interest, using this knowledge, as a first approach to the development of your master's work.
Theoretical and practical answer that the Landscape Architecture offers to current issues, including:
- Homogenization versus uniqueness
- Landscapes of consumption versus sustainable landscapes; consumption scenery versus enjoyment of the landscape
- Compression of time and space versus evolutionary progression; temporality artificial versus natural temporality
- Individual versus community; private space versus public space; intolerance versus inclusiveness
- Fragmentation versus continuity
The themes should be included in the areas of the students greatest personal interest, using this knowledge, as a first approach to the development of your master's work.
Teaching Methods
Oral exhibition supported by audiovisual media. Field trips. Conferences.
Current topics will be presented and discussed throughout the semester.
The evaluation will be done through the presentation of a work, individual or in group, about the themes discussed and presented during the classes. This work will have to reveal a certain degree of practical involvement and / or research on a given topic.
Current topics will be presented and discussed throughout the semester.
The evaluation will be done through the presentation of a work, individual or in group, about the themes discussed and presented during the classes. This work will have to reveal a certain degree of practical involvement and / or research on a given topic.
