2023-2024 / HULG9202-1

Landscape ethics and philosophy

Duration

36h Th

Number of credits

 Master in landscape architect (120 ECTS)3 crédits 

Lecturer

Vincent Furnelle

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course is a seminar on ethical issues concerning landscape and landscaper's profession.
It highlights that the choices made by a landscape professional are always laden with values, priorities and ideological perspectives. A landscape project is always implicitly a society project.
These values exist at a multitude of plans which are important to consider : cultural, social, ecological, aesthetic, economic, even spirutual or cosmic... These issues can be read on a multitude of possible models. There are several concepts of culture, economics, aesthetics, social life... which can be translated into different options regarding landscape projects.
More generally, these concepts gather within a certain time, the time of the place itself, as if each place generated its own temporality, its own rhythms that correspond to a certain way of life and a certain collective imaginary.
In fact, a place is always value-laden and acting on this place will be done according to values. The course aims to lead every student to clarify the values he or she intends to defend in his or her profession. Furthermore, it analyses different spaces, different sites resulting of a planning according to ethical orientations. A few texts and documents will support these analyses.
Generally speaking, the course will emphasize the ethical and political responsibilities of the landscape architect's work.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The course aims at raising awareness of future landscape architects of their growing aesthetic and ethic responsibilities.
It aims to get them to question the choices that their profession involves and to appreciate the many values and ethical principles on which these choices are based.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Theoretical basis of all previous years and practice of the project

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Seminars and exercises Workshops

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face

Recommended or required readings

(de Précy, Jorn, Le jardin perdu, Actes Sud, 2011)
Luginbühl, Yves, La mise en scène du monde, CNRS éditions, 2013
Jaccotet, Philippe, Notes du ravin, Fata Morgana, 2016
Wiszniewska, Irena, Odessa ou les charmes du superflu, Le Monde diplomatique, Avril 2012
Furnelle, Vincent, La musique du paysage, Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, 2015 The chapters : "Orée" and "Horizons"
Furnelle, Vincent, L'âme du paysage?
Furnelle, Vincent, Uni à son paysage, chaque village est unique, Association internationale Ruralité-Environnement-Développement, septembre 2018
 
Larger bibliography class given
 

Oral examination :
Personal analysis of a landscape according to ethical orientations. Detailed outline, sensitive analysis of this landscape in such a way that these ethical options are apparent.
Evaluation criteria :


Transfer capability, critical mind, awareness of involved responsibilities, thorough and explicit development, quality of submitted written documents, relevant references.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

vincent.furnelle@hech.be

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