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Challenges and Approaches of Landscape Research and Design in the Global South

In this paper we reflect upon a series of academic design research studios in landscape architecture that had been conducted between 2008 and 2017. The studios and the related work in the field took place in four different countries and under the auspices of three dif-ferent universities. Great esteem is due to those students of landscape architecture who agreed to work and travel with us. They delivered pioneering work and it is still rather unlikely that colleagues from the international landscape architecture community would bump into them – in the challenging locations they operated in (GIROT & REKITTKE 2011). Only a few schools of landscape architecture started to set about design and research work beyond developed world standards like pretty parks, pretty waterfronts and other beautiful classics. The research and studio work discussed in this paper aimed at the generation of examples, which might demonstrate a new understanding of how landscape architecture, urbanism, ecology and related professional fields can interact for the management of better and more reliable living environments. The paper has been written in a retrospective and relating to numerous items of the bibliography, in a deliberately self-referential manner. We rely on the latitude of a non-peer-reviewed paper and the recapitulatory function of the article at hand.

Autor / Author: Rekittke, Jörg
Institution / Institution: Berlin Megacity Laboratory, Berlin, Germany
Seitenzahl / Pages: 15
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Veröffentlichung / Publication: JoDLA − Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 3-2018
Tagung / Conference: Digital Landscape Architecture 2018 – Expanding the Boundaries: Landscape Architecture in a Big Data World
Veranstaltungsort, -datum / Venue, Date: Munich-Freising, Germany 30-05-18 - 02-06-18
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Keywords (en): Landscape research, Landscape design, firsthand observation, Global South
Paper review type: Invited contribution
DOI: doi:10.14627/537642041
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