Routes of Landscape Design

The studio will broadly consist of three parts or sections: Part 1. Study & Analysis: readings, films and research papers will introduce students to methods and ideas that connect to landscape design. A number of these will be used to create 'quick and dirty' design options for a hypothetical site/sites. Part 2. Doing/Creation (part 1): real-life site(s) will be studied and certain short-listed design methods will be used to design on these. To minimize the time required for site analysis, a site in or contiguous to the CEPT campus may be considered. A detailed design will be created by each student, using one of these approaches, preferably one that is unfamiliar to the student. Additional readings and connections to methodologies of design will probably also continue through this stage. Part 3. Doing/Creation (part 2): students will create temporary landscape installations of a selected few of the designs. The measurement and recording of users' reactions to the spaces may also become a facet of the studio. The studio may be extended in the future through 'Design by Research' studies or papers.