SEMINAR S2 JMA-FR 2

Urban densification and landscape project [EN]

Jardin privé délaissé et sous utilisé dans un des quartiers les plus dense de Fribourg (Beauregard). Photographie : Estela Brahimllari, oct 2021

CONTENT

Identification, mapping, mobilization, and design of open spaces to address current challenges of sustainability and densification of cities.

TEACHING AIMS

  • Provide benchmarks on the role of open spaces in relation to major historical trends in architecture, town planning and ecology.
  • Understand spatial devices where densification and landscape architecture are closely related (garden city, green belt, park system, tiers paysage, urban agriculture).
  • Explore major landscape urbanism projects.
  • Develop skills for drawing and representing of open spaces.
  • Understand the system of stakeholders lying under an urban/landscape project and the urban pressure that could be exerted on open spaces (notion of land value, land right, regulation, citizen participation, density acceptance, the blocking of a project, uses’ conflicts, …).

TEACHING FormS

  • Cours théoriques et exposés-conférences par intervenants internes et externes.
  • Theoretical courses and lectures from internal and external speakers.
  • Field exploration and survey.
  • Field trip with local stakeholders (landowners, green spaces operators, users,).
  • Analysis and critical review of landscape architecture projects.
  • Diagnostic of a space through its representation – desk critic – mapping exercises – the representation of open spaces favors a better understanding of a place and its stakeholders’ system.
Semester
2022-2023 Automne
Module
SEMINAR S2 JMA-FR 2
Teachers
Contacts
Séréna Vanbutsele
Address

JMA-FR, Fonderie 2, 1700 Fribourg

ECTS Credits

3

Location
JMA-Fribourg
First contact

Monday 16.01.2023, 09h00, Fonderie 2, 1st floor

Dates

Monday 16.01.2023 to Friday 20.01.2023
09h00-18h00

Un travail de préparation sera demandé en amont

Attendees

40-60

Language

French, English