Communicating and Intervening
- Faculty
Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture
- Version
Version 1 of 21.08.2025.
- Module identifier
44M0555
- Module level
Master
- Language of instruction
German
- ECTS credit points and grading
5.0
- Module frequency
only summer term
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
How do actors in projects talk to each other? How do you design teamwork? How do planning professionals contribute both expertise and communication skills? What role does moderation play for groups and how does one moderate? How does the common space become the object, occasion and place of understanding about its sustainable development? How do planners communicate with images and spatial interventions? The students are looking for answers to these fundamental questions about communication in planning projects.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
Block A: Moderation methods and the role of the moderator, communication as a programme. Methods of communication and idea generation in planning contexts; event formats.
Block B: Communicating on the move. Communicating with images. Communicating consciously in public. Designing spaces for creative joint work. Using interventions to create a productive communication occasion.
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 45 Seminar - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 60 Other - 20 Study of literature - 20 Creation of examinations - 5 Preparation/follow-up for course work -
- Graded examination
- oral exam or
- Homework / Assignment or
- Oral presentation, with written elaboration or
- Field work / Experimental work
- Knowledge Broadening
Students expand and deepen their repertoire of actions in communication situations typical for their profession.
- Knowledge deepening
Students have a deeper understanding of communication situations, communication tools and process design competences.
- Knowledge Understanding
In dealing analytically and conceptually with complexity and diversity of perspectives in planning processes, students reflect on different types of knowledge.
- Application and Transfer
Students develop an understanding of how to deal with complex processes and the actors involved and reflect on their findings by independently transferring them to similar problems.
- Academic Innovation
Students learn about systematic and self-reflective evaluation of communication processes as a central method of knowledge generation.
- Communication and Cooperation
Students can consciously perceive, shape and control communicative processes. They can communicate together about communication.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
Students are able to express themselves clearly and in a target group-oriented manner in different professional contexts and to arrive at viable solutions in the communication process. They can reflect on their role as professionals in the communication context.
- Literature
Bischoff A., Selle K., Sinning H. (2007): Informieren, Beteiligen, Kooperieren. Kommunikation in Planungsprozessen. Eine Übersicht zu Formen, Verfahren und Methoden. Völlig überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage. Kommunikation im Planungsprozess 1. Dortmunder Vertrieb für Bau- und Planungsliteratur, Dortmund. 331 S
Anders K. & Fischer L. (2020): Landschaftskommunikation. Ein kleines Handbuch. oekom verlag, München. 246 S.
Schultz H. (2020): Erlebte, Konzipierte und Verhandelte Bilder – Wegbereiter einer transformativen Landschaftsforschung? In: Berr K. & Hahn A., Hrsg., Interdisziplinäre Architektur-Wissenschaft. Eine Einführung. Interdisziplinäre Architektur-Wissenschaft: Praxis - Theorie - Methodologie - Forschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden: 325–337.
Huybrechts L., Hrsg. (2014): Participation is Risky. Approaches to Joint Creative Processes. Antennae series 10. Valiz, Amsterdam. 343 S.
Stein U. (2014): Ein systemisches Kommunikationsmodell für die räumliche Planung. pnd online (1): 1–9
BENIGHAUS, Christina; WACHINGER, Gisela; RENN, Ortwin (2016): Bürgerbeteiligung - Konzepte und Lösungswege für die Praxis. Frankfurt a.M
Gonstalla E. (2019): Das Klimabuch. Alles, was man wissen muss, in 50 Grafiken. oekom verlag, München. 126 S
- Applicability in study programs
- Landscape Architecture
- Landscape Architecture M.Eng. (01.09.2025)
- Person responsible for the module
- Schultz, Henrik
- Teachers
- Goy, Iris Angela
- Schultz, Henrik