110-2 Master of Landscape Architecture Mini-Course – Landscape and the driving forces: New ideas and approaches

Cross-domain thinking innovation, opening up a new vision of the landscape –

The concept of landscape and professional development of landscape continue to evolve with social, economic, cultural, and various emerging environmental issues and environmental values. The traditional professional understanding and connotation of “landscape” in the past, including conceptual and methodological knowledge, may not be sufficient to adequately respond to the needs of the current new landscape environment and socio-economic development situation. The professional intervention of “landscape” has been greatly expanded from the formal, visual, physical, and static content of the external environment to the perceptual, connotative, narrative, and dynamic elements of management. At this time, the various professional approaches and knowledge technologies based on the previous “landscape” cognition, especially the various planning and design approaches that emphasize resorting to physical engineering as a solution, gradually fail to respond to the landscape demands under these new landscape cognition and new socio-economic development.

In view of this, it is necessary to cultivate geomorphic professionals with new geomorphic perspectives and cross-disciplinary thinking from schools on a long-term basis, and to provide new cross-disciplinary and hands-on learning experiences through a special curriculum design of mini-courses, with the aim of stimulating students to think outside the established framework in terms of geomorphic concepts and to explore new concepts and practices in response to new geomorphic needs, so as to open up new directions for the geomorphic profession.

In the thinking of geodesic architecture, people (People) in the place (Place) occur in various tangible and intangible interaction. The tangible relationship interaction, such as the spatial use of living, social, and learning surfaces, and the intangible relationship interaction between people and places, such as feelings, impressions, stories, identity, recognition, and memory. In the past, the spirit of place mentioned above was commonly presented through textual narratives, spatial narrative images, and other static presentations. This course uses video narrative to guide students to use dynamic video narrative to understand the landscape, to think about the landscape, to reproduce the various issues and directions of the landscape, and to stimulate the completion of the work through teamwork.

Some of the special courses of the Department of Geography and Architecture of Chung Yuan University, “Landscape and the driving forces: New ideas and approaches”.