Core Documentation

A. Lambertini, Fare parchi urbani. Etiche ed estetiche del progetto contemporaneo in Europa, Firenze University Press, 2006;
F. Panzini, Progettare la natura. Architettura del paesaggio e dei giardini dalle origini all'epoca contemporanea, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2005;
A. Roger, Breve trattato sul paesaggio, Sellerio Editore, Palermo, 2009;
F. Zagari, Questo è paesaggio. 48 definizioni, Gruppo Mancosu editore, Roma, 2006.

Attendance

Attendance at the course is compulsory, and students must attend at least 75% of classroom activities in order to be eligible to take the examination.

Type of evaluation

The subject of overall final evaluation is the acquisition of the cultural, theoretical, and methodological references specific to the discipline, as assessed through the final interview, based on the capacity for critical re-elaboration of the lecture content and the texts assigned during the course. The final grade is also equally influenced by the results achieved in the practical exercises and by active attendance at teaching activities, including participation in discussions and exchanges in the classroom during lectures and guest talks. The exam consists of a dialogue on the topics covered in the course lectures and guest talks, aimed at verifying not only the acquisition of the knowledge conveyed, but also the development of critical maturity in building meaningful connections between authors, places, and projects. The interview, while remaining an individual test and assessment for each student, will take the form of a collective game of "dominoes", using playing tiles prepared and provided by the instructors, each relating to topics addressed in the course. Following each lecture, the instructors will provide a set of tiles pertaining to the themes discussed; by the end of the course, students will have received approximately 100 tiles. While in traditional dominoes the tiles bear numbers from 0 to 6, in this landscape domino the tiles bear words or images belonging to four categories: 1. Works and projects (O); 2. Books (L); 3. Terms/Concepts (V); 4. Authors (A). On the day of the exam, each student must print and bring 4 tiles of their own choosing, selected from all those provided throughout the course. Each student may place one of their tiles next to one already played by another participant, on the basis of affinity or contrast between the themes involved, arguing their move with competence and in a well-reasoned manner. The game/interview has a dual purpose: to assess knowledge and command of the topics covered during the theoretical lectures, and to stimulate relational, shared reasoning on the themes of the course. The interview will be joint across all modules of the integrated course, and for the Urban Planning module it will also include a discussion of the work produced in the practical exercise carried out during the first semester.