ABSTRACT
Studying landscape as a humanistic multidisciplinary concept has origins in the discipline of cultural geography. In the past decades, landscape studies have permeated into several disciplines, such as sociology, history, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, and others where the geographical term has expanded to become a framework for analysis and interpretation of scholarly work. The primary aim was to introduce all this at an early stage, before students formulate a set way of addressing landscape problems. Students are reminded that: Change is inherent to landscape and all themes are to be addressed in terms of past present and future(s) including on-going dynamic processes, social and economic variables. The idea behind the pedagogic endeavour is to highlight complexity at the early stages of professional education and to offer a type of ‘landscape tasting’ exercise, where students explore the multifaceted aspects of an urban site at a municipal scale, and represent the analysis in a visual atlas-like document constructed according to various themes.
