LED2LEAP
Landscape Education for Democracy (LED) to Learning, Empowerment, Agency and Partnership (LEAP)
Codice progetto: 2019-1-NL01-KA203-060497
Programma: Erasmus+
Call: 2019 Round 1 KA203
The LED2LEAP project aims to bring a new way of thinking and acting into relevant university curricula in order to prepare the future generation of landscape architects, planners, architects and designers for their role as democratic leaders for sustainability. There is an urgent need for transformative competence at all levels of society since the challenges for our communities are growing across Europe. Powerful driving forces such as the globalization of work, climate change, digitalization, demographic ageing, migration, individualization, biodiversity loss and unequal resource distribution are not resolvable within the framework of election periods and sector-specific policies.
The proposal aims to develop the discussion within academia and the landscape and planning professions around the need for landscape democracy-building policies and processes related to landscape change. Linking expert and local knowledge is not only helpful to inform better decisions but also ensure policies which are both grounded in state of the art knowledge and communities’ perceptions. The partnership between academia and civil society is also embedded in the Participatory Action Research (PAR) nature of the project, and its predecessor LED seminar. This framework allows knowledge to be co-created rather than simply transferred to communities top down.
Disciplines involved in the projects are mainly landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, and architecture, social and urban studies. The consortium consists of the following university and NGOs partners: LE:NOTRE Institute (Netherlands, the project coordinator), Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen (Germany), University of Bologna (Italy), Szent István University Budapest (Hungary), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden) and the NGO Partners KultúrAktív (Hungary) and EtaBeta Cooperative (Italy).
The teams will exchange their work in a cross-cultural perspective during the LED online course, LED2LEAP living Labs and Intensive Study Programs (ISPs). The goal is to prepare future professionals to operate in cross-cultural and transdisciplinary contexts. Engaging with local partners will allow them to gain a deeper understanding of the complex challenges to address.
Durata del progetto
09.2019 – 08.2022
Responsabile scientifico per il Dipartimento
Coordinatore
LE:NOTRE Institute, Wageningen, Netherlands
Partnership
Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Nürtingen, Germany
Szent István University, Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Budapest, Hungary
KulturActiv, NGO, Budapest, Hungary
University of Bologna, Department of Architecture, Italy
ETABETA, NGO, Bologna, Italy
SLU, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Budget
Budget totale: Eur 318.765,00
Budget DA: Eur 50.890,00
Docenti e ricercatori collegati al progetto
Luigi BARTOLOMEI (Assegnista)
Federica FULIGNI (federica.fuligni2@gmail.com)
Settore ERC del progetto
Higher Education