ÖRESUNDSECT APPROPRIATING SITE QUALITIES IN THE ÖRESUND URBAN LANDSCAPE

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1 ÖRESUNDSECT APPROPRIATING SITE QUALITIES IN THE ÖRESUND URBAN LANDSCAPE Imagine the Öresund region had the project to develop a hiking trail to discover its particular landscapes and raise the awareness of inhabitants and visitors for particular beauties, histories, conflicts and change in the Öresund urban landscapes. How would the itinerary look like? Which sites would it comprise and how could their specific values be communicated? In this studio, you explore the Öresund region through drawings, film and transecting travels in order to propose particular sites to be included into the itinerary of a discovery path of the Öresund region, an Öresund Trail. NOVA University Network summer studio August 19-29th 2015 Öresund region SLU Alnarp/ KU Copenhagen/ NMBU Ås

2 Marseilles hiking trail project - A hike of urban landscapes When Marseille became the European cultural capital in 2013, an association of hiking artists led by publisher Baptiste Lanaspèze composed and realised a hiking trail through the Marseille metropolitan region, allowing inhabitants and cultural capital visitors to understand, feets-on, the specifics of the metropolitan landscapes along a 365km long path, crossing 38 communes and 5 regional parks, allowing for a total of 20 days of hiking. The beauty revealed is unsettling: port feeder roads, sun-exposed parking lots, the thorny macchia, shady pine groves, high rise ensembles of the 60s, overgrown brownfields, stunning views, suspicious smells. The experience of hiking through strange landscapes full of stories and opportunities sharpens the minds of those involved for site qualities beyond the officially accepted touristic highlights. It caters for an appreciation of existing site specificities and for possible radical revision of value systems and concepts of landscape beauty from such a public awareness of landscapes as found, new design concepts are stimulated to arise. As found Within urban development planners and designers all too often dismiss existing site features and build up sites anew, which is resource-intensive and unsustainable in regard to social and ecological systems. We, the initiators of this course, claim that this common practice is based on an inherited understanding of design as creation ex novo, a prevalent architectural paradigm since the Renaissance and highly appreciated during 20th century modernism. To counter this tacitly accept-

3 ed concept and pave the way for a resource-saving and respectful practice, we propose to promote an alternative understanding of design as a translation of that what already exists on a site, based on contemporary site theories. This means to look both at the concepts of design and of heritage in new ways. The question is how to identify and communicate site values, be they material, immaterial or dynamic, as a basis for a sustainable development of urban landscapes? This design studio aims to familiarise you with a method for appropriating site qualities through deep fieldwork-based empirical enquiry and evaluation that becomes part of the conceptual design act: the travelling transect. Its theoretical foundation relies on a reinterpretation of Alexander von Humboldt s trans-areal and mobile empirical science. Training you, who are landscape architecture students and researchers within the NOVA university network, to use and to reflect about a new theoretical outset and methodological framework for design and heritage will enable you to revise your understanding of design and heritage and to influence your generation of designers, design researchers and heritage specialists in the Nordic countries and beyond. How to identify and communicate site values by design?

4 How to envision an alternative landscape trail? The Öresund trails In this studio, we want to transect the Öresund region in multiple moves, groupwise and individually, with a baggage of theories appropriated precourse and during initial seminar days, and with a set of practical instruments on board to write, sketch, photograph, film, record, measure, interview, in short: to capture site qualities. Through in-studio work over the last course days and post-course, we aim to interpret and elaborate site findings into cartographic diaries, tableaux, movies, smartphone apps, scripts and other arguments that propose particular sites to be included into the itinerary of an Öresund Trail. Registration before March 15th Admission for a NOVA course is handled by SLU. Admission is possible from February 23rd to March 15th and is open for both Master and PhD students. MSc students apply for the course at www. universityadmissions.se. Search for the name of the course, and follow the instructions. Non-SLU and NOVA students will have to create an account using the -address you will be using during the course. For queries contact education administrator Inga-Lill Olsson, Inga-lill.olsson@slu.se. PhD students apply in writing a mail to studio course leader Lisa Diedrich, lisa.diedrich@slu.se, stating the topic and status of their PhD research and a short motivation for participating in the course. Notice of acceptance The definitive notice of acceptance will be distributed by May 1st. A maximum of 20 MSc and 5 PhD students are admitted.

5 The studio course is composed by three parts with respective assignments: Pre-studio course (distance studies) Until 18 August - reading course literature Summer studio course (on site) August 2015 Itinerary Öresundsect: circumnavigation and local transect designs Tue 18 Aug, arrival Wed 19 Aug, introduction and theory lectures Thu 20 Aug, method lectures and keynote speech Fri 21 Aug, site lecture and Öresund circumnavigation Sat 22 Aug, Malmö-Copenhagen transect Sun 23 Aug, Malmö-Copenhagen transect Mon 24 Aug, workshop in studio Tue 25 Aug, individual transects Wed 26 Aug, individual transects and FUSE ÖRESUND TALK by Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette, University of Potsdam Thu 27 Aug, workshop in studio Fri 28 Aug, workshop in studio Sat 29 Aug, presentation of findings Sun 30 Aug, departure Post-studio course (distance studies) 31 August 15 November MSc students: Elaboration of cartographic diaries, tableaux, movies, smartphone apps, scripts and other arguments to propose particular sites to be included into the itinerary of an Öresund Trail PhD students: Elaboration of a design research paper on the travelling transect method and immersive site appropriation, related to the own PhD work. Submittal of post-course assignment November 16th: Submittal of site proposal for the Öresund Trail (MSc) or travelling transect design research paper (PhD) Thinking Eyes course exhibition 2013 at SLU

6 Examination elements 1 the individual archive of fieldwork findings 2 the final cartography (MSc students)/ the final design research paper (PhD students) Location Malmö (SLU s Alnarp campus) and fieldwork across the Öresund metropolitan region Studio Course Responsible Prof. Lisa Diedrich, SLU Course team Prof. Lisa Diedrich, Prof. Gini Lee, Post Doc Dario Cianciarulo, Senior lecturer Anders Larsson, Junior lecturer Alexander Henriksson, SLU Alnarp; Post Doc Mads Farsø, Post Doc Rikke Munch Petersen, Post Doc Svava Riesto, KU Copenhagen; Prof. Karsten Jørgensen, Ass. Prof. Deni Ruggeri, NMBU Ås Workload corresponding to 7,5 ECTS (225 hours; equalling 45h pre-course readings and seminar, 80h summer course fieldwork and seminar, 100h post-course assignment/ paper writing) Prerequisite knowledge BSc in landscape architecture; traditional artistic and/ or traditional analytic skills; particular technical skills (film, digital media, GIS, creative writing etc) welcome. Course on NOVA + SLU homepages msc-courses/master-2015/node/ Student work, Thinking Eyes course 2013