Towards Landscape Teaching Excellence: Become part of it!
Are you teaching landscape architecture or any related field? Would you like to extend your contacts with peers and other landscape teachers? Would you enjoy being part of an open and constructive dialogue? Do you want to grow as a teacher?
Then join our global landscape architecture classrooms! They are a great opportunity for developing your teaching skills. IFLA, ECLAS and the LE:NOTRE Institute have recently started to exchange ideas on how we might make a new way of academic peer learning possible at a global scale.
The LED2LEAP Landscape Democracy group will offer the first possibility of this kind. We invite teachers with an interest in democratic and community-led design to join our classroom. You can participate from anywhere in the world.
You can join with your students, your communities and your local landscape democracy challenges. Our next online seminar on community-based design starts on Wednesday March 30, 2022.
>>> follow this link for more information and online registration
Here is what you will need:
- find a few students or thesis candidates from your programs interested in advancing democratic landscape transformations within your local community
- find a community/NGO or local group to work with, and identify a landscape democracy challenge you want to tackle and impact though your work
- ideally, find a window in your curriculum, so that you can integrate the course
Here is what you will get:
- Three training sessions by the LED2LEAP teaching team during which we introduce our approach to landscape democracy, collaborative evaluation and assessment, collective visioning, co-design and participatory evaluation
- You will become part of a co-teaching process, so you, our team, our students and your students will constantly exchange and reflect together in a well facilitated process
- Together, we will reflect and grow by exposing us to innovative approaches needed for democratic transformation and local sustainability
If you are interested in joining the program, contact us via info@led-project.org with the following information: name of institution, location, students planned to be involved, faculty adviser or tutor, Non-profit organization, community group, or municipality you want to collaborate with.
It is important that you engage with a local partner for the course of the semester. There is the expectation that you will meet with them outside of class times to develop a process for addressing a local landscape democracy challenge. The seminar lasts for three months until July 6, 2022.
Associated costs: As long as you take care for the supervision of your own students, there are no costs involved in your participation. Ideally, you plug this programme into an existing studio or project work you doing anyway.
Background: While this concrete invitation is brought to you by the LED2LEAP ERASMUS+ Project, there is a bigger idea behind this. The concept of the Open Landscape Academy has emerged out of an ongoing conversation between the LE:NOTRE Institute, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).
Our goal for 2022 is to test if this approach works for a global target group of academics involved in teaching landscape, landscape architecture and related fields.
We welcome other global landscape classrooms to join us. Please contact the IFLA Chair for education and academic affairs if you have ideas, comments, or if you want to contribute to further developing the Open Landscape Academy: chair.eaa@iflaworld.org
