Landscape Studio

Landscape Studio is an advanced design course where students train individual and collective skills within a group-design process. The ability to formulate design solutions, strategies, planning- and methods of analysis into structures of transformation in time, place, and programme constitutes a core component of the course. This is because the landscapes, that are studied and planned for, embody interpretation of the past, understanding of the present and expectations for the future.

Society is constantly undergoing transformations that impact the landscape profession. Such issues are addressed in the course and this is why themes are different from year to year depending on professional, cultural and social significance.
The field of the issues are space and works in their context meaning urban landscapes that creates the framework for movement and pause, experience, remembrance and recognition. Besides the well known genres such as historical and modern parks and gardens, squares and streets, cemeteries and recreational landscapes, residential areas, institutions and businesses the course focuses on damaged and derelict landscapes like costal-, harbour- and industrial areas that are in transformation towards new use, new aesthetics and new meaning.

Taking a position on the situation of any landscape is part of all projects as is taking a position on the relation between building and landscape. Architectonic craftsmanship is trained through programming and through proposals for transformation of urban landscapes. Therefore priority is to   assemble knowledge of terrain (modelling), knowledge of construction and materials, water circulation and plant growth into coherent landscapes. The ability to think specially, social and artistically, to understand the significance of a work of art is trained throughout the course as well as the ability to evaluate the quality of own- and others works. As a core learning experience the course entails a fieldtrip (mandatory) as a part of the design process.