HULG9202-1 : Landscape Ethic and Phylosophy

Study Programmes 2015-2016

HULG9202-1

Landscape Ethic and Phylosophy

Duration :

24h Th

Number of credits :

Master in landscape architect (120 ECTS)		3

Lecturer :

Vincent Furnelle

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The course aims to be a seminar on landscape aesthetics and ethics.
It makes links between aesthetics and ethics.
It confronts different conceptions of ethics with the practice of the landscape architect's profession: - moral of happiness (Epicurus and stoicism), - moral of balance (Aristotle), - moral of duty (Kant), - intelligence of historical necessity (Hegel), - complementarity of convictions and of responsibility (Weber), - ethics of environmental responsibility (Jonas) - aesth-ethics (Audi)
It develops thinking and discussions on aesthetic and moral dilemmas about landscape.
It raises questions about societal projects underlying choices on landscape and on the responsibilities of the landscape architect in particular.

Learning outcomes of the course :

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 (inter alia aesthetic) 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) :

Face-to-face