Duration
36h Th
Number of credits
| Master in landscape architect, professional focus | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course is a seminar on ethical issues concerning landscape and landscaper's profession.
It highlights that the choices made by a landscape professional are always laden with values, priorities and ideological perspectives. A landscape project is always implicitly a society project.
These values exist at a multitude of plans which are important to consider : cultural, social, ecological, aesthetic, economic, even spirutual or cosmic... These issues can be read on a multitude of possible models. There are several concepts of culture, economics, aesthetics, social life... which can be translated into different options regarding landscape projects.
More generally, these concepts gather within a certain time, the time of the place itself, as if each place generated its own temporality, its own rhythms that correspond to a certain way of life and a certain collective imaginary.
In fact, a place is always value-laden and acting on this place will be done according to values. The course aims to lead every student to clarify the values he or she intends to defend in his or her profession. Furthermore, it analyses different spaces, different sites resulting of a planning according to ethical orientations. A few texts and documents will support these analyses.
Generally speaking, the course will emphasize the ethical and political responsibilities of the landscape architect's work.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The course aims at raising awareness of future landscape architects of their growing aesthetic and ethic responsibilities.
It aims to get them to question the choices that their profession involves and to appreciate the many values and ethical principles on which these choices are based.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Theoretical basis of all previous years and practice of the project
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Seminars and exercises Workshops
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face
Course materials and recommended or required readings
(de Précy, Jorn, Le jardin perdu, Actes Sud, 2011)
Luginbühl, Yves, La mise en scène du monde, CNRS éditions, 2013
Jaccotet, Philippe, Notes du ravin, Fata Morgana, 2016
Wiszniewska, Irena, Odessa ou les charmes du superflu, Le Monde diplomatique, Avril 2012
Furnelle, Vincent, La musique du paysage, Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, 2015 The chapters : "Orée" and "Horizons"
Furnelle, Vincent, L'âme du paysage?
Furnelle, Vincent, Uni à son paysage, chaque village est unique, Association internationale Ruralité-Environnement-Développement, septembre 2018
Larger bibliography class given
Oral examination :
Personal analysis of a landscape according to ethical orientations. Detailed outline, sensitive analysis of this landscape in such a way that these ethical options are apparent.
Evaluation criteria :
Transfer capability, critical mind, awareness of involved responsibilities, thorough and explicit development, quality of submitted written documents, relevant references.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
vincent.furnelle@hech.be