INTERTWINED
This year, the CDLA2024 framework is “INTERTWINED” underscoring nature as a fragile dynamic system that is in constant interaction. Flora and fauna are intertwined creating living systems which allow the emergence of ecologies, key to sustain our future. Humans are instrumental, not just in the creation of places and landscapes, but also in the identification, preservation, and restoration of these systems.
The CDLA proposes to uncover and learn from these invaluable and vulnerable interconnections by exploring nature and collaborating with various organizations. Activities across the program allow students to reflect on the significance of the intertwined existing plants, animals, human beings and built environments in Hong Kong and to learn the wide presence of landscape design components within our cities, rural contexts and protected zones.
The course aims at providing students an overview of the essential aspects of the landscape architecture discipline by learning from the relationships between nature, humans and the built environment.
During this program, students:
- Learn from their reflections and experiences the value of nature in different contexts and its close relationship with the role of the discipline
- Expand the significance of nature from local to global perspectives
- Evidencing the importance of nature and landscape architecture in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts
- Experience working with a range of representation techniques commonly used in landscape architecture
- Explore and reflect on major topics in the field of landscape architecture
- Discover and develop landscape design processes and methodologies