TELOS Online Seminar 2022-2023

For whom is this course?

• Are you worried about our planetary boundaries?
• Are you an architect who cares about sustainable development?
• Are you an urban or landscape planner who wants to make planning and design more inclusive, systemic and strategic?
• Are you an economist who wants to work with other disciplines on transformative processes?
• Are you curious about other people and their knowledge?
• Are you eager to get to know people from other places – academics like you but also citizens and their local issues?
• Do you believe in your capability to create something new?

Then join us in the TELOS online programme, summer schools and living labs!

TELOS is about designing innovation by linking landscape and economy.

We invite an interdisciplinary audience of students as agents of transformative change for the benefits of local landscapes, economies and communities.

TELOS Online Course October 2022 - January 2023

• Our first online seminar will start on October 10, 2022, and finish on January 30, 2023.
• The course comprises weekly sessions starting at 16 pm CET
• Participants can acuqire 5 - 10 ECTS, depending on their participation mode

Participation modes and distribution of credits

• Requirements for 5 ECTS: regular and active participation, pre- and post-seminar concept mapping and preparation of a good practice case study
• Requirements for 10 ECTS: regular and active participation, pre- and post-seminar concept mapping, landscape system analysis, landscape system model

Seminar objectives and learning goals

We expect that after course completion TELOS participants ...

• can list, recognize, recall and understand the main concepts related to landscape and economy, and the main concepts of at least one other discipline different to his/her own discipline
• knows how to retrieve missing information using multiple strategies
• define the conceptual connections between landscape and economy
• can define the conceptual connections of the main concepts of at least one other discipline different to his/her own discipline
• can apply this knowledge to understand new landscape economy contexts

We further assume that TELOS learners become aware of the limits of their knowledge.

Further, TELOS participants should....

• remember the main methods relevant for a landscape economy approach such as DPSIR, Scenario Building, Collective Visioning, Prototyping, Modelling
• know at which stage in a process which methods can be applied
• be able to apply the main methods relevant for landscape economy approaches
• become aware of the limits of those methods
• become aware of his/her personal strengths with regard to each method

TELOS participants are critical and reflective and should be able to....

• name evaluation criteria in relation to sustainable development and to link these criteria to their analysis findings
• evaluate the impact of past and present landscape economy processes
• evaluate the impact of scenarios and of a (new) landscape economy model
• evaluate the plausibility and stability of a (new) landscape economy model
• critically reflect conflicts between sustainable development goals and trade-offs

TELOS participants

• are able to identitfy sustainability challenges and conflicts that need to be addressed
• knows innovative practices that have successfully addressed these challenges/conflicts
• can contextualise all these elements and translate them into a collaborative process
• can design / co-create a new landscape economy model (i.e. a spatial model and/or a business, governance or cooperation model for a concrete study area)
• can critically reflect the impact and feasibility of the new model