For Participatory and Creative Pedagogy in Landscape and Environment

Abstract

This work presents the Landscape Studies Group of the Laboratory of Public Space and Right to the City, which is based on the proposition of the Spiral of Sensibility and Knowledge and on the conception of landscape as partaken experiences as well as a social production of space. The article argues for ways of learning in and with the city, experiencing collectively and collaboratively its possibilities, hopes, dramas, contradictions. Such proposition establishes an “object of research” which is relational in many ways. It aggregates the poetical possibility along with the possibility of thinking of landscape in its territorial structures; it interlaces its historical dynamics with ways of its appropriation and transformation, requiring the interdisciplinary cooperation, inviting to the reflection of the artistic and sensible dimension that it mobilizes, as much as of its social, technical and political dimension. Attached to this text, we present the list of research carried out within the Landscape Studies Group.