Implementing the activities

Implementing the activities

For the on-site workshop, it is recommended to organise working groups according to the model explained in Implementing_the_teaching_and_learning_activities. It is important to have local students who are fluent in the local language (able to speak, read and translate) as members of every team.

To achieve the best results for the hosting municipalities and communities, and to ensure the highest motivation level of students stakeholders a successful principle is:

• every group works on a different spatial focus area; and
• every group works on a different thematic focus.

This helps to avoid too much competition between the teams and redundancies during the presentations and discussions with the local stakeholders. In typical academic study projects and design studios, students usually work competitively on the same study area to get the best results. But in these ISP workshops, the students and their tutors know each other, are more or less familiar with the planning context and there are no language barriers.

The following table shows the main themes of the four CO-LAND ISP workshops that have taken place. Depending on the particular spatial focus areas, additional concrete topics and sub-themes are reasonable, such as natural characteristics (dunes, volcanism, local habitats etc.), post-industrial landscapes or seascapes (brownfields, drosscapes, etc.) or tourism infrastructure (marinas, camping areas, holiday homes, beach bars and clubs etc.).