Conservation between Wilderness and Design

44M0483

Master

German

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

The success of nature conservation depends on whether and to what extent it is possible to anchor the protection of nature as a social and political goal and to integrate it into the nature-related actions of social groups and milieus. The aim of this module is to make the cultural meanings of nature expressions understandable as practically relevant orientation knowledge for the design of our environment. In landscape architecture and landscape planning, these basics are a prerequisite for taking into account not only ecological, design and technical aspects, but also emotional and cultural meanings of nature in society, for finding suitable guiding ideas and thus creating a basis for broad acceptance. The idea of protecting or developing wilderness as well as culturally emphasised habitats draws on a variety of human images and values. What different emotions and cultural meanings underlie the ideas of nature, landscape, wilderness or other categories in specific cases? What connections are there in ancient cultural landscapes between the natural and cultural heritage of humanity? The aim of the module is to make visible and critically reflect on the ambivalences between naturalness and artificiality, doing and not doing, use, design and process protection. This forms the basis for a reflected generation of ideas, discussion of different goals and measures and participation of citizens within the decision-making processes.

The field of tension between wilderness and design offers an ideal basis for dealing with different views of nature, value concepts and patterns of justification and, in addition to the theoretical foundations on the cultural dimension of nature conservation, allows for practical transfer to concrete planning situations, e.g. - Wild river Isar in Munich, - safeguarding/designing fallow land and near-natural areas in cities, - industrial nature/forests Ruhr area, concepts for post-mining landscapes, - protected areas between process protection and static conservation goals, - preservation of biodiversity in the cultural landscape, - return of predators to the cultural landscape, - soil protection vs. renaturation, - wilderness for or without humans, - nature experience spaces in cities.

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Homework / Assignment or
• oral exam or
• Oral presentation, with written elaboration

Students can consider emotional and cultural meanings of nature in society and, against this background, develop and discuss different concepts for planning spaces and assess them with regard to social acceptance.

Students have knowledge and a deeper understanding of the ways in which cultural meanings of natural expressions affect the acceptance and design of the spatial environment.

In addition to target and factual knowledge, students also acquire instrumental transformation knowledge for finding solutions in the field of tension between nature conservation, society, design.

Students can arrive at a reflective generation of ideas from the ambivalences between naturalness and artificiality, doing and not doing, use, design and process protection and transfer their findings to similar questions.

Students develop research questions and learn about research-based design as a central method of knowledge generation.

Students can apply this knowledge when communicating with experts and citizens within planning decision-making processes.

Students reflect on different work-related contexts in which constantly changing, new and unpredictable challenges arise.

• Schultz, Henrik

• Kiehl, Kathrin
• Rück, Friedrich
• Taeger, Stefan
• Schultz, Henrik
• Hanusch, Marie Luise