| Forest & Landscape | |||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination Portfolio Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Evaluation of individual report. Proces as well as writings/drawings count. The report must contain description of ideas behind the design as well as the ways to obtain the realization of it from the order of plants untill the maintenance phase. The individual report can be part of a larger project. Weight: Evaluation of report 100% pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Report | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | |||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 1 Week Structure: A | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 310018 Thematic Course: Plants and Technology in Landscape Architecture | ||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 50 | ||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||
| The course takes the students through the use of plants for different soil- and light conditions, how to design planting schemes for extensive as well as intensive maintenance. The emphasis is on species and cultivars, recommendable for the use in garden- and landscape architecture. Relevant supplementary litterature is mentioned. | |||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| The lectures analyse diffent types of existing plantings by Powerpoint presentations as well as at excursions to danish and swedish locations. In group sessions (or singly depending on the number of participants), the students write/design a final report and plantning design. The report must take its point of origin in the above mentioned groups of plants and describe idea and motive for the choice of plants, its scale, structure and rythm in the combinations of plants. The illustrations should describe the position, numbers and latin names as well as sizes and quality of the plants. A maintenance plan for the planting design must also be compiled. The course will run as a combination of lectures and intense group work and self studies. | |||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||
| The course is for students of landscape architecture and other students with particular interest in plant design. The overall purpose of the course is to enable the students to design planting schemes from an ecological, aestetic, historic and functional point of wiew. The planting design includes design for public as well as private spaces and the emphasis is on the design of vigourous and stable plantings. The main groups of plants includes trees (with the exception of forest trees), shrubs (including roses), climbers, perennials (including bulbs)and annuals. After the course the student should be able to Knowledge: Use knowledge of the growing conditions for and the aestetics of a series of plants used in landscape architecture. Use knowledge of the assortment of plants from danish as well as foreign nurseries and its use in sustainable plantning scemes for garden and landscape. Skills: Analyse existing as well as possible plant communities based on the caracteristica of the place as to soil, light, aestetics and history. On this background decide a possible choice and combination of plants. Deside the suitable kind of planting design considered the architecture and use of the site. Ceate and describe projects for vigourous and durable plantings design for hedges, groves, shrubberies, mixed borders, perennial and annual bordes. Competences: Present, compare and discuss planting design schemes in cooperation with the rest of the team in the design process. Work out detailed plans for the order of plants and to lead the physical the carrying out of the planting designs. Work out plans for the maintenance of planting designs. | |||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
| The Encyclopaedia of Grasses for Liveable Landscapes, Timber Press, Rick Darke 2007 Planting Design,Timber Press,Piet Oudolf, Noël Kingsbury,2005 Perennials and their garden habitats,Cambridge University Press,Richard Hansen/Friedrich Stahl, 1993 Sortimentscatalogue, Bruns Pflanzen, 2008 Sortimentskatalog,Dansk Staudegartnerforening, Digital version, 7. edition The Dynamic Landscape,Spon Press, Nigel Dunnet & James Hitchmough, 2003 The Royal Horticultural Society Gardeners´ Encyclopedia Plants & Flowers, Dorling Kindersley | |||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
| Jane Schul, jane@schul.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Landscape, Phone: 45425090 | |||||||||||||
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