Output 1 - The COLAND Online Course

Pozzuoli Coast nearby Naples, photo: Antonella Cuccurullo

View on the beach of De Panne, Belgium, photo: Didier Vancutsem

Kopli beach with a view to the East on the socialist block house areas, photo: Jekaterina Balicka

Black Sea spa landscape in Mangalia, Romania, photo: Ellen Fetzer

In the light of the sensitive nature of coastal landscapes and their relevance to society, economy and the environment it is vital that planners and designers learn how to manage these territories in a sustainable way. The COLAND project has developed a learning format that addresses this specific challenge.

In this section we provide all teaching and learning materials our international and interdisciplinary team has developed during this project.

Learners can use these materials for self-study. If you are teaching in a spatial planning or design programme, feel free to use them for your own teaching and/or adapt them to your needs. This section focuses on providing access to materials.

If you are interested in the didactical and organisational framework of this course, please also consider our Guidance Report and the COLAND Tool-Box.

Learning Objectives

The instructional design of the COLAND course aims at supporting the development of the following set of competences among the learners:

Subject-specific competences

...learners have an advanced understanding of:

• The specific character of coastal landscapes
• The driving forces that are influencing the landscape system
• The impact types that are most relevant for planning and design responses
• Approaches and methods for assessing coastal landscapes
• The global, European and local dimension of coastal landscapes
• Challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals

Methodical competences

...learners become able to:

• Assess coastal landscapes in a systematic and transparent way
• Translate sustainable SDGs to the local and regional situation
• Develop strategies and/or master plans for coastal landscapes
• Make well-argued plans and designs for coastal landscapes
• Present ideas and plans

Social and personal competences and attitudes

...learners experience a mindset shift towards:

• Taking the sensitive nature of coastal landscapes into account
• Taking responsibility for sustainable development
• democratic leadership
• Respecting local social values and qualities of the existing landscape

Generic learning outcomes

...learners train:

• Working in interdisciplinary and multicultural teams
• Making use of ICT for collaboration + design
• Communicating + visualising results to different audiences, including lay people

Lecture materials

Phase A: Understanding Coastal Landscapes

A.1 Why coastal landscapes matter

• Session recording
• Session slides

A.2 Dynamics of Coastal Landscapes

Session date: Tuesday, 7th of February 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Thematic input: Dynamics of Coastal Landscapes, Drivers for Change and Typologies, speakers: Igor Sirodoev, Ovidius University Constanta, Romania
• Information on Seminar Sequence and Assignments

A.3 Coastal Landscapes as a Cultural Phenonemon

Session date: Friday, 14th of February 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Thematic input: Coastal Landscapes as a Cultural Phenonemon: A visual-spatial and aesthetic perspective, speaker: Friedrich Kuhlmann, EMU Tartu, Estonia
• Interactive reflection and discussion
• Seminar sequence and assignments, briefing on upcoming presentation

A.4 Group presentations: Your Landscape System Analysis

Session date: Friday, 21th of February 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Moderated group presentations
• presentations in parallel sessions and peer evaluation

Phase B: Evaluation and Assessment of Coastal Landscapes

B.1 Integrated Landscape Assessment Approaches (1)

Session date: Friday, 28th of February 2019, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Thematic Input: From risks to potentials - methods and instruments of Assessment Approaches
• Seminar sequence and assignments, questions and answers

B.2 Integrated Landscape Assessment Approaches (2)

Session date: Friday, 6th of March 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Interactive discussion
• Seminar sequence and assignments, questions and answers

B.3 Integrated Landscape Assessment Approaches (3)

Session date: Friday, 13th of March 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Antonio Acierno, Federico II
• Interactive discussion
• Seminar sequence and assignments, preparation of presentation

B.4 Group presentations: Landscape Assessment and Evaluation

Session preparation:

• submit your presentation slides

Session date: Friday, 20th of March 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Groups report findings from their assessment and evaluation process and compare across international cases

Phase C: Integrated Planning and Design for Coastal Landscapes

C.1 From Goal Setting to Strategy Building

Session date: Wednesday, 25th of March 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Thematic input on strategy building by the teaching team from Ion Mincu University for Architecture and Urbanism

C.2 From Strategy to Planning and Design

Session date: Friday, 27th of March 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Thematic input: Spatial vision and transect method with Ingrid Schegk and Christoph Jensen, HSWT Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
• Interactive discussion: questions and answers
• Seminar sequence and assignments

C.3 From Design to Intervention: Urban Acupuncture

Session date: Friday, 3rd of April 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

• Thematic input: Ingrid Schegk, Christoph Jensen (HSWT) and Jekaterina Balicka (EMU)
• Preparation of final presentation

C.4 Final presentation

Session date: Thursday, 9th of April 2020, 15 00 - 16 30 pm CET

Session preparation:

• submit your presentation slides
• Groups who did not go on the IP present their planning and design ideas and compare across international cases

Reading List

Additional resources and useful readings are compiled here.