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LE:NOTRE Thematic Network Project

LE:NOTRE Thematic Network Project. LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture. LE:NOTRE Thematic Network Project. The story so far… It all began at the ECLAS Conference 2000 in Dubrovnik, where ECLAS: Voted in a new constitution including redefined goals;

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LE:NOTRE Thematic Network Project

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  1. LE:NOTRE Thematic Network Project LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  2. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • The story so far… It all began at the ECLAS Conference 2000 in Dubrovnik, where ECLAS: • Voted in a new constitution including redefined goals; • Agreed to levy a modest membership fee; • Resolved to comment on the draft European Landscape Convention; and… • Decided to investigate the possibilities of applying for funding for an EU Thematic Network Project LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  3. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project The new ECLAS constitution redefined the goals of the organisation as follows: The European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools exists to foster and develop scholarship in landscape architecture throughout Europe by strengthening contacts and enriching the dialogue between members of Europe’s landscape academic community; by representing the interests of this community within the wider European social and institutional context; and by making the collective expertise of ECLAS available, where appropriate, in furthering the discussion of landscape architectural issues at the European level LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  4. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • On investigating the goals of the ERASMUS Programme’s Thematic Network Projects, it appeared that the goals of ECLAS and the goals of the Thematic Network Projects were, in fact, very similar • The main difference between ECLAS and ERASMUS TNPs was simple: ECLAS had no money and ERASMUS Programme was offering up to € 100 000 per annum for running Thematic Network Projects for a period of up to three years LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  5. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project „Thematic Networks are one of the main innovations of the Socrates-Erasmus Programme. They were created to deal with forward looking, strategic reflection of the scientific, educational and institutional issues in the main areas of higher education “ LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  6. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • On investigating the goals of the ERASMUS Programme’s Thematic Network Projects, it appeared that the goals of ECLAS and the goals of the Thematic Network Projects were, in fact, very similar • The main difference between ECLAS and ERASMUS TNPs was simple: ECLAS had almost no money and ERASMUS Programme was offering up to € 100 000 per annum for running Thematic Network Projects for a period of up to three years LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  7. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project Such funding would leave ECLAS to invest what little money in had in some virtual real estate, and so www.eclas.org was also born LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  8. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • It was agreed at the 2001 ECLAS Conference that a TNP proposal should be submitted on behalf of ECLAS by TU Wien as Network Coordinator • This involved a two stage bidding process: • Pre-proposal 1st November 2001 (+/- 38 projects submitted) • Full Proposal 1st March 2002 (19 projects invited to submit) • Project ‚selected‘ End August 2002 (some 10 projects chosen) • Official Project Start was 1st October 2002 • This is the first full meeting of the Network LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  9. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • It was agreed at the 2001 ECLAS Conference that a TNP proposal should be submitted on behalf of ECLAS by TU Wien as Network Coordinator • This involved a two stage bidding process: • Pre-proposal 1st November 2001 (+/- 38 projects submitted) • Full Proposal 1st March 2002 (19 projects invited to submit) • Project ‚selected‘ End August 2002 (some 10 projects chosen) • Official Project Start was 1st October 2002 • This is the first full meeting of the Network LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  10. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • The first thing that has to be filled out on the application form for Thematic Network Projects is the project title and acronyn if applicable: • The project is called Landscape Education: New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe - LE:NOTRE LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  11. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • The first thing that has to be filled out on the application form for Thematic Network Projects is the project title and acronyn if applicable: • The project is called: Landscape Education: New Opportunities for Teaching and Research in Europe LE:NOTRE LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  12. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project André Le Nôtre 1613 - 1700 LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  13. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • What is the rationale behind the LE:NOTRE Project? • There is the rationale as far as the Thematic Network Project is concerned, but also a broader ‘hidden agenda’ which relates to the wider goals of ECLAS • Only the official rationale is explained in the project bid… LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  14. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (i): “Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals: so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape - he is a shaper of the landscape." Jacob Bronowski, 1973, The Ascent of Man • The bid starts by putting landscape architecture firmly at the centre of the wider scheme of things regarding “life, the universe and everything…” LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  15. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (ii): Landscape architecture is the discipline concerned with mankind's conscious shaping of his external environment. It involves planning, design and management of the landscape to create, maintain, protect and enhance places so as to be both functional, beautiful and sustainable (in every sense of the word), and appropriate to diverse human and ecological needs. • The definition of landscape architecture chosen seeks to be as broad and inclusive as possible, taking in all potential aspects of the field, reflecting the approach to landscape taken in the European Landscape Convention… LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  16. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (iii): The multifaceted nature of the landscape and mankind’s interaction with it, means that the subject area is one of unusual breadth, drawing on and integrating concepts and approaches, not just from the two sides of the traditional divide between the creative arts and the natural sciences, but incorporating many aspects of the humanities and technology as well. • This statement stakes a claim for the ‘rights’ to a wide territory on behalf of landscape architecture and defines it as a uniquely interdisciplinary subject LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  17. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (iv): This complexity is closely reflected by the diversity of approaches to the discipline which have developed throughout Europe. In some countries, for example, landscape architecture can trace its roots back to horticulture, while in others it has grown out of architecture, planning or environmental science, and elsewhere out of agriculture, or ecology and nature conservation. • Here it is made clear that the potential problems of developing a common understanding between European landscape architecture academics go deeper that mere differences in language – but that the potential benefits of cooperation are very great LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  18. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (v): This diversity of intellectual provenance is also clearly illustrated by the range of different types of higher education institutions across the continent in which landscape architecture teaching and research has been established. These range from universities specialising in the fine arts to those dedicated to agriculture and forestry, and encompass technical universities as well as the more broadly-based 'general' universities. • Seen from a European perspective, the academic world clearly does not really know what to do with us. In times like these – of economies and cut backs this could be dangerous: there is a need to make and effort to better explain what we do to our peers LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  19. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (vi): In addition to the inherent complexity of content, there is also considerable variation in the state of development, i.e. the 'maturity' of the discipline from country to country, although in comparison with the majority of traditional subject areas within higher education, landscape architecture must be generally classed as a 'young' discipline. Indeed landscape architecture is perhaps one of the few academic disciplines which was established in the New World (Harvard, 1900) before it became the subject of university education in Europe (Oslo, 1919). • As compared to many disciplines in Europe and with landscape architecture in the USA, we have some catching up to do to: “we are number two – we (must) try harder”! LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  20. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (vii): As a result of the relative youthfulness of the discipline, landscape architecture courses tend often to be relatively poorly resourced in comparison with other, more traditional, disciplines. One consequence of this is the relatively modest staffing levels, both in absolute terms and as measured against the unusually wide-ranging nature of the subject area. This in turn has had an impact on the research potential of the discipline: the necessary 'critical mass' for the development of functioning academic communities within the various sub-disciplines of landscape architecture simply does not exist in the majority of European countries, a fact which is by itself a strong argument for closer trans-national cooperation. • European cooperation is therefore essential in the long term to create the necessary conditions for successful research within a varied, diverse and under-resourced discipline LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  21. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (viii): (The)richness (of European landscape education), which reflects both the diversity of the landscape itself and European cultural approaches to it, should not lightly be discarded in order to achieve conformity for its own sake, but rather be seen as an important potential for the co-ordinated development of new specialisations to address society’s and the profession’s needs. Convergence towards a common paradigm and the resulting agreement on accepted research and development goals is, however, a natural development process in all disciplines, and landscape architecture in Europe has reached a stage where it is ready to take a significant step in this direction. • While we need to respect differences and diversity, we cannot afford to hide behind them. There is a need to talk about, and if possible agree upon and codify the content and substance of what we do LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  22. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Explain the rational and background to the project (ix): The opportunities offered by the LE:NOTRE Thematic Network Project in landscape architecture present the possibility for making a 'quantum leap' in both the quality and effectiveness of co-operation between European landscape architecture educators… As an established organisation seeking to bring together all Europe’s landscape schools, ECLAS provides an ideal vehicle, not just for carrying through the LE:NOTRE Thematic Network Project, but for continuing to implement and develop the outcomes of the TNP in the long term. • We need to grasp the opportunities offered by the Thematic Network Funding, but also consider how we transform them into long term benefits for ECLAS too. There is a need to think in terms of ‘outcomes’ as well as ‘outputs’ LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  23. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project Project goals (i) The goal is to take the discipline to a new level of maturity, by building on and developing European best practice and identifying key needs and urgent areas for action in education and research within the discipline. To achieve this it will be necessary to fulfil the following objectives: • to strengthen the European landscape architecture academic community, to highlight the European dimensions and identity of the discipline in order to effect improvements in all aspects of education and scholarship; • to move towards the convergence of undergraduate curricula by the identification of common reference points, while seeking to develop specialisms at more advanced levels, which grow out of the existing variety of landscape issues and professional needs and the different environmental conditions within the countries of Europe; • to develop common agreed goals for learning outcomes and improved teaching methods backed by common teaching resources for landscape architecture education (including European Masters and PhD programmes), building on best European practice and emerging new directions, methods and technologies, especially ICT; LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  24. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project Project goals (ii) • to strengthen the potential for research in landscape architecture at the European level, as an important precondition for research-led teaching, by seeking to co-ordinate existing activities and define common and urgent research agendas, developing common research methods education as well as seeking new means to disseminate research findings. • to improve communication with professional bodies and public authorities, landscape students and other stakeholders, as well as with related disciplines at the European level in order to ensure educational and research needs at all levels, including for lifelong learning, can be identified and addressed to the highest possible standards in line with agreed professional profiles, and new needs effectively predicted; • to initiate measures necessary to facilitate the improved future mobility of staff and students; and • to strengthen the long-term framework through which this process of dialogue and co-operation can continue at the same level of quality and intensity beyond the time scale of the Thematic Network Project. LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  25. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • For the first year, the project involves 73 Higher Education Institutions from all 26 ‚eligible‘ countries (= EU 15 + EEA: Norway +Iceland + 10 applicant countries – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia also Bulgaria + Romania) which have landscape architecture education • Plus 9 additional universities from ‚non eligible countries‘ (Croatia, Turkey, Ukraine, Yugoslavia) LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  26. Network Coordinator: Richard Stiles, Technische Universität Wien - A LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  27. Steering Committeeconsists of 14 members: Richard Stiles, Technische Universität Wien - A Catharine Ward Thompson, Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt University - UK Jeroen de Vries, Larenstein University of Professional Education - NL Karsten Jörgensen, Agricultural University of Norway - N Luis Ribeiro, Technical University of Lisbon - P Ingrid Sarlöv-Herlin, Swedish Agricultural University, Alnarp - S Ivan Marusic, University of Ljubljana - SLO Ian Jörgensen, Agricultural University, Copenhagen - DK Cornelius Scherzer, HTW Dresden - D Diedrich Bruns, Universität Kassel - D Aleksander Böhm, Cracow University of Technology - PL Kristine Kalmane, Latvia University of Agriculture - LT Kinga Szilagyi, Szent Istvan University, Budapest - H Maria Goula, ETSAB, Barcelona - E LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  28. 82 Network Member Schools: 73 eligible Institutions plus 9 from non-eligible countries LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  29. All member schools are organised in 12 • Subject Area Working Groups • covering the main sub-disciplines of landscape architecture: • Landscape Design • The cultural landscape • Urban open space planning • Professional practice • Landscape management • Plant material and vegetation establishment • Information and communication technology • Theory and methodology • Landscape planning • Materials and project implementation • History and conservation • Landscape and infrastructure LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  30. Scientific Advisory Board consisting of: six eminent landscape architecture academics advises the steering committee and is responsible for external project evaluation LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  31. Partner Organisations • comprising 9 external bodies representing landscape architecture practice in its widest sense at the European level including: • EFLA: European Foundation for Landscape Architecture • ELCA: European Landscape Contractors Association • ELASA: European Landscape Architecture Students Association • IFLA and the IFLA-ICOMOS Committee on Historic Gardens • IFPRA: International Federation of Parks and Recreation Administration • CLRAE: Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Europe LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  32. Neighbouring Disciplines: • Representatives of 12 associated academic disciplines, yet to be agreed upon, who will: • provide academic contacts with those fields of study which interface directly with landscape architecture • investigate possible areas of joint interest, and • identify potential common research approaches and themes LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  33. Erasmus Bureau: European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture As funding agency LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  34. Socrates Leonardo Youth Technical Assistence Office As project managers for TNPs and liaison with the EUComission LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  35. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • The project has been conceived as a three year project, but… • Funding is approved on an annual basis only • Year one funding – until September 2003 – is around € 129,000 • Funding covers travel and subsistence for one person from each of the 73 network members schools plus some money for web site development, and not much more • The total project cost, which includes contributions from the member institutions, is some €360,000 in year one • The time contributions from the network member institutions – estimated at some 10 days per institution - need to be accounted for - time sheets! LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  36. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • The project has been conceived as a three year project, but… • Funding is approved on an annual basis only • Year one funding – until September 2003 – is around € 129,000 • Funding covers travel and subsistence for one person from each of the 73 network members schools plus some money for web site development, and not much more • The total project cost, which includes contributions from the member institutions, is some €360,000 in year one • The time contributions from the network member institutions – estimated at some 10 days per institution - need to be accounted for - time sheets! LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  37. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • The project has been conceived as a three year project, but… • Funding is approved on an annual basis only • Year one funding – until September 2003 – is around € 129,000 • Funding covers travel and subsistence for one person from each of the 73 network members schools plus some money for web site development, and not much more • The total project cost, which includes contributions from the member institutions, is some €360,000 in year one • The time contributions from the network member institutions – estimated at some 10 days per institution - need to be accounted for - time sheets! LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  38. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • The project has been conceived in three, interdependent, phases: • Year One will focus on data collection (the easy part?) • Year Two will concentrate on analysis and reflection of the ‘state of the art’ in landscape architecture education (with the close involvement of the Partner Organisations and Neighbouring Disciplines), and • Year Three will bring forward proposals for joint projects and new developments • (Year Four – Dissemination Project?) LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  39. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Working Groups form the heart of the project: • These represent the main ‚sub-disciplines‘ of Landscape Architecture • Each is intended to bring together colleagues from higher education institutions across Europe with similar teaching responsibilities and research interests • Working groups will be virtual in the first instance, providing the opportunity for all staff at LE:NOTRE member schools to register and contribute their work on-line • In addition representatives form each member school will meet annually to discuss and interpret the information provided via the project web site. This is the purpose of our meeting here at the University of Kassel LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  40. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Working Groups form the heart of the project: • These represent the main ‚sub-disciplines‘ of Landscape Architecture • Each is intended to bring together colleagues from higher education institutions across Europe with similar teaching responsibilities and research interests • Working groups will be virtual in the first instance, providing the opportunity for all staff at LE:NOTRE member schools to register and participate in their work ‘on-line’ • In addition representatives form each member school will meet annually to discuss and interpret the information provided via the project web site. This is the purpose of our meeting here at the University of Kassel LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  41. LE:NOTREThematic Network Project • Working Groups form the heart of the project: • These represent the main ‚sub-disciplines‘ of Landscape Architecture • Each is intended to bring together colleagues from higher education institutions across Europe with similar teaching responsibilities and research interests • Working groups will be virtual in the first instance, providing the opportunity for all staff at LE:NOTRE member schools to register and participate in their work ‘on-line’ • In addition representatives form each member school will meet annually to discuss, interpret and build upon the information provided via the project web site. This is the purpose of our meeting here at the University of Kassel LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  42. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Landscape Planning and Policy Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  43. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Landscape Planning and Policy Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  44. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Landscape Planning and Policy Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  45. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Landscape Planning and Policy Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  46. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Landscape Planning and Policy Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  47. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Landscape Planning and Policy Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  48. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Strategic Landscape Planning Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  49. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Strategic Landscape Planning Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

  50. Landscape Design Professional Practice Landscape and Infrastructure Cultural Landscape Plant Materials and Vegetation Establishment Information and Communication Technology History and Conservation of Parks and Gardens Strategic Landscape Planning Materials and Project Implementation Landscape Management Urban Open Space Planning and Policy Theory and Methodology LE:NOTREThematic Network ProjectWorking Groups: defining the scope of the discipline? LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture

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