A disciplinary conversation on the status of education and research in Canadian Schools of Landscape Architecture_ phase 1
10/18 Photographs were taken by Moin Hassanzadeh during the Land | Terre Design Research Network Colloquium held at the University of Manitoba (October 26th to 28th, 2018).
The geographical distance between Canada’s landscape architecture schools poses a barrier to advancing knowledge and collaborating on research projects. A multi-researcher presentation, Crosscountry Check-up: A transect of landscape architecture research across Canada, at the 2017 World Design Summit in Montreal (WDSM) was an essential first step in conquering the spatial divide and addressing links between research, education, and landscape architecture. The WDSM presentation focused on what types of research questions educators ask and how they reinforce learning in both studio and classroom. At the conference, researchers shared limited surveys of what lies behind their regional and pedagogical approaches to landscape architecture. The presentation generated much discussion.
We intend to continue the conversation to address common research questions, and reveal the potential for more informed and collaborative research. The goal is to create a forum for this discussion on landscape architecture research and education in Canada and form the foundation of a research group. With a nationally developed research network, landscape architecture research across the country can advance agendas and, most importantly, assist professionals by critically examining many of the pressing issues currently facing Canadian society and the environment.
The work of the research professors is continuing a second phase as outlined in phase 2 of this project > Grant #151
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19.05.07/ The geographical distance between Canada’s landscape architecture schools poses a barrier to advancing knowledge and collaborating on research projects. The project plan was to bring research professors together to design a studio that occurs at each of the schools simultaneously. We anticipate the results will be documentation of what challenges and opportunities there are as a collective.
19.05.07 / publication Land|Terre article about initiative in Landsapes Paysages, Spring 2019