ABSTRACT
The aim of the History Workshop is to provide students with references relating to landscape urbanism, to raise awareness of role and potential of the dimension of history for current issues in order to provide them with the skills to deploy such data in their own projects. The link between theoretical and practical teaching becomes explicit during group tutorial work, which, through thematically orientated re-drawing of the studied sites, aims to provide an enlightened understanding of the issues of landscape practice. Students immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the place, reproduce sensations and ‘clues’, features of the materiality of the space, through sketching and photography. The essential open spaces act as a focus of communal daily life, anchoring the neighbourhood in history and geography. Drawing attention to their importance and the issues they represent as social spaces can inform the specific skills called for in design and management and how they impact on the formulation of commissions and economic issues.
