• Offered for Year: 2025/26

• Module Leader(s): Ms Stef Leach
• Visiting Lecturer: Mr Scott Matthews

• Owning School: Architecture, Planning & Landscape
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

To enable students to learn, develop and demonstrate:
- A range of landscape planning and design skills in relation to relatively large scale, extensive and complex landscape issues and problems, with particular reference to large scale landscape-led master-planning for urban inclusivity, adaptation and resilience.
- The ability to integrate a variety of complex and conflicting landscape issues, land-uses and functions.
- A combination of technical, aesthetic, social, environmental and economic competence and realism
- Advanced abilities and skills in responding to a master-planning brief

Outline Of Syllabus

The syllabus and design project work will cover the following topics:

- Undertaking an holistic site surveys and investigations (both empirical and non-empirical), and critical analysis. This will include Creative Skills-Building Workshops: Limbering Up and Aesthetic:

A series of short exercises intended to introduce students to creative aspects of landscape architecture. Workshops are intended to support students in learning the language of landscape both for deciphering existing landscapes, and for embedding narratives in designed landscapes:
1) students will examine the important role of photography for landscape architecture and be introduced to a variety of techniques including panorama and montage, and develop critical and reflexive skills on decisions taken, methods employed and how such practices could be improved.
2) through a series of activities students explore the practice of drawing as a fundamental and inseparable part of the landscape architecture discipline and to engender an experimental critical personal approach to drawing for beginners and experienced alike.

- Collective Landscape Imaginaries Workshop
- The production and communication of imaginative and creative concepts, as well as a set of strategic design principles conceived as a manifesto, as a response to the Landscape Imaginaries exercise to drive urban inclusivity, resilience and adaptation
- The production of integrated, optimal and sustainable solutions in the form of landscape-led action plan
- The illustration and communication of those proposals

Aim and objectives of the design project are linked to the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: 3 (good health and well-being), 10 (reduced inequalities), 11 (sustainable cities and communities), 12 (responsible consumption and production), 13 (climate action) and 15 (life on land).

The design project is carried out in part in small groups and in part individually.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Jointly Taught With

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The design studio is the integrative environment where students can synthesis knowledge from other modules and develop their understanding and skills in the context of a design problem set by tutors. Students are supported in their learning through site visits, briefings, tutorials and critical review). Design tutorials and review are also the principle means through which students receive feedback on their progress.

Studio tuition and review sessions allow for the tutors to assist and encourage students in the development of their projects.

The design studio pedagogy is centred on a dialogic and responsive approach to students’ own creative work and research. Landscape Architecture pedagogy is reliant on a high proportion of independent learning to support the design process. The MOF hours are consistent with this approach.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Formative Assessments

Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

City and Landscape Design Brief:

During design tutorials work will be reviewed and tuition carried out on a weekly basis to encourage progression. The interim critical reviews allow students to learn from each other as well as from the tutor. This reviewing technique also provides practice for the final reviews, and for the kind of presentations commonly expected of landscape professionals in practice.

The presentation of issues analysis, landscape imaginaries for resilience and adaptation, concepts and proposals provides students with the opportunity to explain and communicate the development and depth of their knowledge and understanding.

Assessment of the graphic representation of projects indicates the ability of students to select and use appropriate communication techniques and media for landscape planning projects.

Reading Lists

• APL3011's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• APL3011's Timetable