LED
Landscape Education for Democracy
Project code: KA203-013239
Programme: Erasmus+
Call: Strategic Partnership 2014
LED (Landscape Education for Democracy) is an interdisciplinary, international course teaching conceptual thinking, diversity management and intercultural communication for building leadership skills in the spatial planning professions.
To meet contemporary needs in spatial planning, we need to rethink design and planning education so that future practitioners will have the knowledge, skills and sensitivities necessary to design and implement democratic decision-making in landscape planning. LED promotes empowerment, participation and active citizenship among young people by directly addressing the topic of participation and active citizenship, thus developing the skills needed to deal with social, cultural and environmental challenges in Europe. It also includes teaching participation methods in interdisciplinary constellations as a fruitful ground for groundbreaking new ideas for local change. This way it clearly supports the objectives of the 2013 Communication on Opening Up Education by providing an open, online course. LED focuses on the importance of the practical, everyday application of the principles of the European Landscape Convention, the Aarhus Convention and other key accords that address landscape decision-making based on democratic principles.
The course allows students to master methods and theories typically not taught in spatial planning programmes like landscape architecture and urban planning. These include: Participant Action Research, service learning, participatory design, ecological democracy and ecoliteracy. Among the many important professional skills, students will acquire in the course is developing appropriate and effective means of including marginalised or disadvantaged social groups. The students will be prepared for this in the theoretical phase of the project as we will provide case studies from a variety of cities to illustrate best practices for how to engage marginalised groups and include them in the planning process.
Project duration
09.2015 - 09.2018
Department scientific supervisor
Coordinator
NMBU, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning (Norwey)
Partnership
Nürtingen-Geislingen University (Germania)
University of Kassel (Germania)
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (Italia)
Szent István University (Ungheria)
LE:NOTRE Institute (Paesi Bassi)
Budget
Budget totale: Eur 306.523,00
Budget DA: Eur 50.396,00
Teachers and researchers involved in the project
Federica FULIGNI (federica.fuligni2@gmail.com)
Project ERC sectors
Higher Education