PEDAGOGICAL BOOKLET
ENSP s area of specialisation is within project-orientated design teaching in studios. Emphasis is placed on the physical, geographical and human uses of the landscape. We focus attention on the opportunities inherent to the site, its surface topography and hydrology as well as invisible relationships such as the dialogue with the memory of the site. We strive to develop our thinking by understanding a sense of place and this approach is fundamental to our ethos as we conceptualise and selected projects. The work finds focus in large scale contemporary landscape issues, such as sub-urban expansion themes, agrarian transformation in rural and sub rural areas as well a project-orientated understanding of the agricultural and natural dynamic in France s regions. The French post-master on large scale landscapes in transition is organized in four blocks of teachings. The core block is a Studio run with stakeholders, either public or private on an anticipatory topic related to large scale landscape dynamics, this studio is named Atelier Pédagogique regional, (APR), regional pedagogic studio. The studio is a 6-month studio, a work group of 3 students supervised by a professional landscape architect or a teacher from ENSP. The studio is taught in English. The other main courses are seminars and conferences as well as an optional workshop or master class. The second semester is concentrated on a feedback on the students APR (regional pedagogic studio) to disseminate new knowledge gained by the design work. All modules are taught in English. An original training programme. The weekly pedagogical organisation allows the exercise of a part-time activity. Each promotion will benefit from a «great witness» whose work and positioning will open the field of reflections on the problem of the Post Master. The great witness supervises a master class and proposes a collective contribution reflecting this unique year. An inaugural core curriculum consisting of an artistic performance and a philosopher's seminar will offer the three programs a wider scope for reflection on the transition. After the assessment of the APR, the month "OFF" will propose experiments in short formats: Workshops, Master Class and Grand Chantier will constitute a reflexive pause in a deepening workshop. The Post Master diploma, APR D, where everyone will develop their position as a landscape architect facing problems of "transition" encountered during the training, will close the year. This time of deepening the project practice will result in a final restitution in the form of a book or collective exhibition. 2
POST MASTER LANDSCAPE(S) in TRANSITION 2018-2019 MODULES SCHEDULE (english spoken courses) sept-18 GREAT WITNESS PERFORMANCE ART TRANSITION SEMINAR(S) Meeting day Artistic and landscaped residence Introduction to French landscape cultures oct-18 nov-18 dec-18 jan-19 LARGE LANDSCAPE AND SUB RURAL PROCESSING SEMINARS Refertilise metropolitan territories New nature Exploring risks + PROFESSIONNAL WORKSHOP : APR «ATELIER PEDAGOGIQUE REGIONAL» feb-18 mar-18 WORKSHOP Inter-schoolWorkshops MASTER CLASS OF THE GREAT WITNESS The landscape in advance «CHANTIER» In the field apr-18 mai-18 jun-18 jul-18 APR D Studio work to deepen concepts and methodology from the APR work FOR NEW POSITIONS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Support for obtaining certificate : exhibition of works 3
MODULE PERFORMANCE ART RESPONSIBLE: Olivier Marty TITLE: PERFORMANCE ART DURATION: 4 Days ECTS : 3 Identify your questions, your own resources and those of a collective. Reconcile the fine observation of places, and confidence in its plastic and poetic intuitions. EDUCATIONAL AIMS: Initiate group dynamics and individual energy for successful post-master's training. Open questions related to landscapes and transitions, through the sensitive experience of space. Dare to physically intervene in the landscape, taking into consideration the qualities and constraints of a under analysed site. To know how to give shape to his plastic and poetic intuitions SPEAKERS : Rozenn Cannevet, historian and art critic Gilles Clément, landscape architect and writer Laurence Nicola, Artist Olivier Marty, artist Guillaume Quemper, landscape architect Organised over four consecutive days at a remote site in Versailles, the PERFORMANCE ART trip allows the promotion to get to know each other, to think and act together, and to prefigure the working groups of the year. the mode of work is: Artists, landscape architects, teachers of Ensp or from Art Schools brought together with the students during an intensive and collective artistic action, echoing the human and physical context of the place of residence. The final presentation includes a open debateto find out the relation ships to the main topic: landscapes in transition. Be active and take part in a collective mode. 4
MODULE: «TRANSITION(s)» SEMINAR RESPONSIBLES: Gilles Tiberghien, Jean-Marc Besse TITLE: I landscape architecture cultures DURATION: 3 Days ECTS: 3 Identification of the different aspects of contemporary thinking about landscape architetcure, landscape transformations in philosophy, arts, and social sciences. Position the issues raised by the word "transition", for a landscape architect EDUCATIONAL AIMS : This first session of the seminar launches the scientific orientation committee around the issues raised by the wording : "transition". It is intended to deepen and seize a number of general questions on the basis of expert presentations. SPEAKERS: Gilles Tiberghien, Jean-Marc Besse and 2 guests Professors. The teachings days are divided into two terms. Mornings are devoted to expert insights, theoretical argumentations, afternoons, students work in groups around one of the thamatics and find questions related to the topic. Each group gives a lecture of about fifteen minutes, which is followed by a general discussion. Outcomes are theoretical and bibliographical in deepening on the core temati on landscapes in transition. Report of the seminar and commentes Bibliographic research. 5
CORE MODULE: Professional studio - APR RESPONSIBLE: Karin Helms TITLE: Regional pedagogic Studio (APR) DURATION: 39 teaching days + student work. ECTS: 25 GENERAL COMPETENCES: This course will support the post-master students in developing their landscape architecture general competencies in: Using the knowledge and savoir-faire gained on the rural design project for Landscapes in Transition(s). Understand the challenges relating to a past occupation or activity, (agricultural) site and define its capacities to be transformed for future uses. Define new morphologies and planning in rural and sub rural areas avoiding master plans and looking for better planning methods with local stakeholders linked to local policies. Work at different scales, alternating between the open space and the built environment. Invent new forms of open space and new natures for our future cultural landscapes. SPECIFIC COMPETENCES: Developing an overview and research-oriented perspectives on collaborative and participatory methods of planning communication with their respective targets and indicators. On completion of this course, the student will be able to find new Design models for sub-rural landscape habitats in rural and natural context and at large scale landscapes in transition. PEDAGOGIC CONTENT: To question the future and challenges for the urban countryside territories. To develop an informed position as a landscape architect in the network of operational and concerned parties to the subject. To work out from a large-scale project details on sub rural sites and cultural landscapes. A complex studio work on challenging transformation to enable answers on transitional landscape periods and anticipatory contexts. LECTURERS: professional landscape architects and academics TEACHING PERIODS and Part- time courses. Studio APR is run from October to March. Students are working in group of two or three taught in English. The students are directly linked to a stakeholder and helped by a professional landscape architect and or an academic. Class attendance, and self-directed study (preparation and post-processing of the seminar + exercises). Mode of examination: Oral and written documents. 6
MODULE: SEMINARS Large landscape and sub rural transformations RESPONSIBLE: Karin Helms TITLE: Large Landscape and Sub Rural Transformations DURATION: 9 Days ECTS: 5 Understand the challenges of large landscapes, especially rural landscapes, in the face of transformations linked to energy and climate transitions Positioning the questions on a European and international scale PEDAGOGIC AIMS : Acquire a body of knowledge on climate change anticipations and adaptations through the practice of landscaping in France, Europe and internationally. Promote shared knowledge of the professional practices of landscape architects profession on the great landscape in France, Europe and internationally. SPEAKERS: Visiting Professionals (Course taught in English ) The deepening seminars allow contributions in contents on each of the three themes treated in the year: refertilise our metropolitan territories, news natures, exploring risks. Over a period of 3 days, they will enrich the programs with contributions in content trough invited weell know French ladnscape architects professionals. Participation, take part in the related excursions,, exercices linked to the seminar. 7
ELECTIVE MODULE: WORKSHOP RESPONSIBLE: Béatrice Julien-Labruyère, Auréline Doreau, Joséphine Billey, Mathieu Gontier TITLE: Inter-school Workshops DURATION: 4 consecutive days ECTS: 5 Position yourself in a multidisciplinary team. Identify the conceptual contributions of each discipline in the project approach PEDAGOGIC AIMS: Developing creativity during a short time on a theme from one of the three programs. SPEAKERS: Invited Professionals The first day consists of meeting the actors and the site and the following days are done in project workshop. A rendition takes place with a professional jury (some workshops may include an award ceremony). Appreciation of graphic production Assessment of the innovative nature of the spatial proposal 8
MODULE: MASTER CLASS Guest Professor: Michel Desvigne and his office MDP Michel Devisgne paysagist. TITLE: "The landscape as prerequisite" DURATION: - 4 consecutives days ECTS: 5 How do MDP procede and act, as a succesfull international designer on the notion of Landscape as Prerequisite? An intensive MasterClass to identify and decrypte MDP's mode of acting. EDUCATIONAL AIMS: The master class aims to decipher the steps and the route of the work of an international and French designer and his office over several years. The objective of the intensive MasterClass is to understand the concepts of a renown designer over to personal design modes. The first day will be a meeting with the big witness followed by a time of exchange. The second day will be dedicated to excursions, visits of sites designed by the renown landscape architetc in the Parisian region. It will be followed by two days of intensive workshop on a thematic on "'The Landscape as prerequisit " ` Quality of the Partcipation Appreciation of the innovative design proposal Oral and graphic presentations 9
ELECTIVE MODULE: «GRAND CHANTIER» RESPONSIBLE: Rémi Duthoit TITLE: «Grand Chantier» DURATION: 4 consecutive days ECTS collective : 3 Course taught in French Understanding of the scale 1 to 1, by a landscape construction in an ecological transitional site. Decrypt the methods of setting up an experimental workshop site. EDUCATIONAL AIMS: Experimenting with an ecological transitional project Test the results of an the experimentation and its site management SPEAKERS: Invited Professionals Intensive outdoor work and of collective creation insitu. Appreciation of the final production and involment on the project 10
MODULE: EXTENSION STUDIO APR-D RESPONSIBLE: Karin Helms TITLE: New role for the landscape architect NB OF DAYS: 15 Days out of 4 months ECTS: 21 Write a methodology and a description of the tools characterizing as relevant and original approach for projects related to transitional issues. Formulate research questions, scientific or artistic emerged in the canddiats own positioning as landscape architect. EDUCATIONAL AIMS: Encourage the development of original and innovative approaches on landscape in transitions, from the experience of the professional workshop APR Generate new knowledges and tools adapted to the anticipation of landscapes in transition SPEAKERS: Programme Managers, writters and post - doc students. From April on, students present have their posture as a designer and decrypte their mode of acting as designer through the APR work they ahve done during the first term. June overall presentation of the canbdidat's personal, theoretical, practical and/or artistic work to a panel of designer and academics. - the aim is by this final presentation to identify the contributions of the Post- Master in change in ones mode of acting. - to formulate and present this change in an design posture. Final presentation in July on an open day. p resentation or exhibiton the canddiats works done during the whole year. Appreciation of the innovative nature of presented approach 11