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Regenerative Practices for Exhausted Landscapes
Last Updated: 2026-02-05 16:23:03
Abstract
In this course, students will be introduced to a range of landscape practices that regenerate soil health and enhance biological integrity, including agroforestry, adaptive grazing, water harvesting, afforestation, and rewilding. Students will cultivate field experiments on a local site over the course of the semester to observe the influence of these practices with landscape dynamics in situ.
Objective
Through the field design exercises, drawings, and discussion, students will explore a rule-based methodological approach to designing with living systems. Additionally, the course will examine the potentials and challenges of these practices to influence landscapes at a territorial scale.
Content
The course is composed of a series of lectures that introduce key regenerative practices as well as case studies. Throughout the course, students will spend a third of course time on a local experimental site, designing and managing field experiments to investigate the practices introduced in course lectures. The site and associated experiments will be documented through a series of drawings.
Resources
Lecture Notes
The course material will be provided in the form of a reader. The reader includes a reading list.
Learning Materials (Links)
- Main link
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General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- MSC
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- graded semester performance
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
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| lecture with exercise |
Regenerative Practices for Exhausted Landscapes
No course on 23.3. (seminar week).
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3 h weekly |
Offered In
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Advanced Courses (The specialized courses are freely selectable and offer students the opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge in certain areas of landscape architecture. The details for the performance assessments are regulated in Art. 27.)
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