86950 - Landscape Education for Democracy

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student has acquired basic skills in the management of participatory projects conducted from local communities. In particular, he is able to: - recognize the project stakeholders and their role in the decision-making processes in progress; - recognize the landscape nodes to which the various co-participating communities of a territory feel particularly connected; - identify strategies that allow the settled communities to tell their way of living and their desires in a free and non-finalized way; - build operational strategies that allow all stakeholders to take an active part in the decision-making processes and transformation processes of the territory; - know the main bibliography available today relating to "Community based design" and the role and management of the landscape among the Commons.

Course contents

The course consists of communications and workshops in which participants are invited to engage in short survey activities of socio-environmental contexts and planning of participatory transformation actions, within international groups of students, set up online

Readings/Bibliography

The bibliography will be communicated at the end of each lesson, in relation to the topics addressed from time to time

Assessment methods

The activities carried out in the workshops organized during the course will be assessed. The final grade will be determined in relation to the results obtained in the intermediate evaluations, taking into account the adequacy of the methods adopted (30%) the effectiveness of the results obtained (40%) the clarity and effectiveness with which they are returned (30%)

Teaching tools

The course consists of lectures and workshops in which the concepts and methods learned are applied to real contexts

Office hours

See the website of Ernesto Antonini