Program Overview
Program Overview
The MSc Programme in Landscape Architecture offers an advanced design course, Landscape Studio, which focuses on training students' collective skills within a group-design process. The course aims to provide academic, professional, artistic, and scientific competence in problem-solving related to landscape architecture through project work of different scales.
Course Description
Landscape Studio is an advanced design course where students train and collect 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 program constitutes a core component of the course. The course addresses issues that impact the landscape profession, such as transformations in society, and focuses on damaged and derelict landscapes that are in transformation towards new use, new aesthetics, and new meaning.
Learning Outcomes
The main aims of the course are to provide academic, professional, artistic, and scientific competence in problem-solving related to landscape architecture through project work of different scales. After completing the course, students should be able to:
- Describe and formulate solutions, strategies, relevant planning, and methods of analysis into spatial programs for change in landscape-related use.
- Describe models and drawings, applied theories and concepts related to transformation through drawings, illustrations, diagrams, text, and models.
- Apply scientific, technological, aesthetical, and ethical skills relating to problem-solving.
- Communicate and present a critical and reflective view on problems and solutions of own and others' work of landscape architecture.
Literature
Please refer to the Absalon course page for literature details.
Recommended Academic Qualifications
Academic qualifications and design qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree are recommended.
Teaching and Learning Methods
Exercises generally consist of studio work on the assignment of the course, including different forms of feedback where teachers are present. The students will train individual and collective skills in a group-design process. The teaching methods applied include scientific and artistic methods as well as techniques for sketching and presentation.
Workload
The workload for the course is as follows:
- Lectures: 15 hours
- Preparation: 247 hours
- Theory exercises: 6 hours
- Practical exercises: 100 hours
- Excursions: 24 hours
- Guidance: 20 hours
- Total: 412 hours
Feedback
Feedback is provided through:
- Oral feedback
- Individual feedback
- Collective feedback
- Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
- Feedback by final exam (in addition to the grade)
- Peer feedback (students give each other feedback)
Exam
The exam consists of:
- Written assignment, during the course
- Oral examination, 20 minutes The assignment must be submitted in physical form and in Digital Exam (3D models, sketchbooks, and logbooks are exempted). The format of the physical submission must follow the instructions of the teacher.
Aid
All aids are allowed.
Marking Scale
The marking scale is a 7-point grading scale.
Censorship Form
The censorship form is external censorship.
Re-exam
The re-exam is an oral examination based on group project work. Project assignment to be handed in prior to the exam week. A combined grade is given after the oral exam.
Course Information
- Language: English
- Course code: NIGK15015U
- Credit: 15 ECTS
- Level: Full Degree Master
- Duration: 1 block
- Placement: Block 4
- Schedule: A and C
- Course capacity: 45
Study Board
The study board is the Study Board of Geosciences and Management.
Contracting Department
The contracting department is the Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management.
Contracting Faculty
The contracting faculty is the Faculty of Science.
Course Coordinators
The course coordinator is Peter Lundsgaard Hansen.
Lecturers
The lecturer is Peter Lundsgaard Hansen.