Meet & Eat | Playful pedagogies. Co-designing Landscapes of Change with Children | 24 Sept
24 September 2024 12:45 till 13:30 - Location: Teaching Lab - By: Teaching Academy | Add to my calendar
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Today’s new generations, and in particular young people, will face consistent landscape changes during their existence.
This Meet & Eat will introduce the Comenius Fellowship results for didactical and pedagogical innovation. Starting from exploring different forms of play, the project aims to educate and engage younger generations in climate change issues. Games are ‘designed experiences’ where players can learn through doing and being rather than absorbing information in traditional educational formats. By assuming various roles and perspectives, the educational experience of play triggers emotions that help to acquire new awareness, develop a more complex vision of the future, and finally make decisions.
In this project, the game becomes the tool through which students can acquire knowledge, observe the world from different perspectives, and ultimately imagine and transform the future world.
Students from the landscape, architecture, and urban disciplines explored the past, present, and future of an assigned landscape, adopting the concepts of play, design, and climate change. Later, students themselves became ‘actors of change’ involving children in co-designing and co-creating a collective outdoor climate play/art installation on-site.
In this Meet & Eat, we will reflect on what is in such a pedagogical approach for: educators, university students, and other stakeholders involved.
Timeline
12:30-12:45 Walk in & lunch
12:45-13:30 Lunch lecture (recorded)
13:30-14:00 Afterthoughts, Informal discussion and networking (not recorded)
About the speaker
Laura Cipriani works in landscape urbanism and landscape architecture design projects in academic and professional environments.
Laura is a tenure track assistant professor at TU Delft and since 2012 and 2013 she has taught Landscape Architecture and Landscape Urbanism at Venice University IUAV and at Politecnico di Milano. She also taught at NUS National University Singapore, at Venice International University VIU and at Padova University. Since 2014 she holds the Italian Associate Professorship registration and was a EU Marie Curie researcher at the University of Trento.
Professional activity is supported by a constant commitment in research and teaching. Her research interest is currently focused on landscapes of crisis – territories and cities affected by environmental, economic, and social crisis. She combines her love for the topic in her project as an Comenius Fellow. If you would like to read more about it visit our webpage.
Laura received a Ph.D. in Urbanism in 2008 from Venice University IUAV Ph.D. School, a Master’s degree (M.Des.) with distinction focused on landscape and urban studies from Harvard University GSD in 2004 (attended with a grant), and Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Architecture with honors from Venice University IUAV in 2001.
