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Annual Report of the Landscape Observatory of Finland 2017: Diagnosis of the level of Implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Finland (2017)
(2018-01-15) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture
After its official constitution in December 2016, the landscape Observatory of Finland has been operating in diverse ways to support the implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Finland. The Observatory promotes research, discussion, participation and actions on landscape issues. A central principle is that any Finnish territory, rural or urban, local or regional, whether outstanding, ordinary or damaged, has an associated landscape that deserves study, management and planning. Furthermore, those landscapes can become assets for future sustainable development and wellbeing. Following the monthly meetings of the Steering Group of the Observatory, a diagnosis of the current level of the implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Finland was conducted. This comprehensive document will be released in January 2018 and includes some crucial conclusions that will guide the work of the Observatory in the coming years. In particular, the diagnosis showed that there are already excellent initiatives in Finland regarding valuable rural landscapes as well as a promising collage of academic, governmental and social organizations working complementarily in this issue. However, the same diagnosis hinted at a potential for positive contributions in other geographical scopes like urban, periurban, industrial or highly mixed areas. Besides, the diagnosis detected a gap in the development of landscape policies and landscape quality objectives that could support more integrative ways of working in land use, spatial or sectoral planning. In addition, the report indicated that landscape is still understood by big groups of the society as an aesthetic and rural quality and that the increasing lack of confidence in planning, especially amongst some social and political sectors, might affect negatively the implementation of sustainable landscape policies and practices. As a consequence, the dissemination of a more open and holistic understanding of the landscape concept in Finland and the definition of new frameworks and referents the landscape observatory was established as a key objective. The aim is to show the benefits that proactive landscape planning and management can generate for all social groups and stakeholders. In its final part, the diagnosis identified the most relevant topics for futures studies and projects, as well as some potential new members that could extend the social base of the Observatory. The identified topics were in many cases connected with urgent issues affecting the evolution of Finnish landscapes: urbanization, climate change, depopulation of rural areas, intensified forestry, new systems of governance or the socio-cultural dimension of the landscape. Following the finalization of the diagnosis, the Observatory started its initial actions.
Climate Change Impacts, Opportunities, Solutions and Obstacles in all Pilot Landscapes: AELCLIC Project_DELIVERABLE 2
(2020-01-11) Pedroli, Bas; Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Torregiani, Daniele; Marinaro, Ludovica; Galiana, Francisco; Servera, Emilio; Department of Architecture; Universitá di Bologna; Universidad Politecnica Valencia; Polytechnic University of Valencia
This deliverable includes an overall reflection about the processes that took place in the middle phases of the AELCLIC project and that led to the co-identification of climate change impacts, opportunities and solutions as well as to the co-definition of key themes for Climate Change Adaptation in the15 Pilot Landscapes of the AELCLIC project. By analyzing and comparing the results produced in the different AELCLIC regions (Northern, Atlantic &Alpine, Southwestern and Southeastern Europe it was possible to detect the importance of helping individuals and communities to internalize the effect of climate change in their daily lives and landscapes. This process was activated by sharing existing information and by promoting multi-stakeholder discussions that revealed convergences and divergences in how climate change might affect different types of people and which visions, strategies and solutions would be needed. The main trans-European findings included in the deliverable were organized in the following sections: - Key climate change impacts, opportunities and barriers including a comparison of the impacts detected in the AELCLIC pilot landscapes and the ones proposed by the European Environmental Agency and the IPCC - Set of 6KEY Findings concerning Climate Change Impacts in the AELCLIC - Detected impacts and proposals: Feasibility, legitimacy, effect on Climate Change Governance and relation to existing policies (e.g. NASs and NAPs)
A conceptual model of the social–ecological system of nature-based solutions in urban environments
(SPRINGER, 2020-09-11) Tzoulas, Konstantinos; Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Venn, Stephen; Dennis, Matthew; Pedroli, Bas; Mishra, Himansu; Haase, Dagmar; Pauleit, Stephan; Niemelä, Jari; James, Philip; Department of Architecture; Manchester Metropolitan University; University of Manchester; Wageningen University and Research Centre; Estonian University of Life Sciences; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Technical University of Munich; University of Helsinki; University of Salford
This article provides a perspective on nature-based solutions. First, the argument is developed that nature-based solutions integrate social and ecological systems. Then, theoretical considerations relating to relational values, multifunctionality, transdisciplinarity, and polycentric governance are briefly outlined. Finally, a conceptual model of the social–ecological system of nature-based solutions is synthesised and presented. This conceptual model comprehensively defines the social and ecological external and internal systems that make up nature-based solutions, and identifies theoretical considerations that need to be addressed at different stages of their planning and implementation The model bridges the normative gaps of existing nature-based solution frameworks and could be used for consistent, comprehensive, and transferable comparisons internationally. The theoretical considerations addressed in this article inform practitioners, policymakers, and researchers about the essential components of nature-based solutions. The conceptual model can facilitate the identification of social and ecological interconnections within nature-based solutions and the range of stakeholders and disciplines involved.
Conformed Local Networks: AELCLIC Project_DELIVERABLE 11
(2020-01-22) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture
Composition of the Local networks conformed in the 15 AELCLIC_Pilot Landscapes across Europe for the future definition of local Landscape Adaptation Plans to Climate Change
Finland aims at establishing a Finnish Landscape Observatory
(2017-05) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture
A wide range of Finnish governmental, academic and civil society institutions have officially created in December 2016 a Consortium for the Landscape Observatory of Finland. The Consortium integrates the Ministry of the Environment, The National Board of Antiquities, The Finnish Environment Centre (SYKE), The Natural Resource Centre of Finland (LUKE), The University of Helsinki, The University of Jyväskylä, The University of Turku, The Aalto University, the Professional Association of Landscape Architects (MARK) and the Finnish Society for Cultural Environment Studies. The Consortium is the first cross-party co-operation in the field of landscape management and research in Finland and was born after a series of national and international seminars organized by Aalto University in Otaniemi. During those seminars, the representatives of the above-mentioned institutions analyzed the current level of implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Finland and agreed in the high potential that a Landscape Observatory could have in that process. The concept of Landscape Observatory was based on the European Landscape Convention and follows the recommendations of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. According to those recommendations, Landscape Observatories are strategic tools for describing the condition and evolution of landscapes over time, for exchanging experiences and knowledge concerning landscape protection, management and planning as well as public participation, for measuring the effectiveness of landscape policies and for forecasting the effects that transformative factors can have on the landscape.
Generation of Local Networks and Co-definition of Work Plans: AELCLIC Project_DELIVERABLE 1
(2020-01-10) Galiana, Francisco; Servera, Emilio; Pedroli, Bas; Torregiani, Daniele; Marinaro, Ludovica; Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture; Universidad Politecnica Valencia; Polytechnic University of Valencia; Universitá di Bologna
This deliverable includes an overall reflection about the processes that took place in the early phases of the AELCLIC project and that led to the conformation of 15 local networks in the 15 Pilot Landscapes of the AELCLIC project. By analyzing and comparing the different processes that took place in the different regions of the AELCLIC project (Northern, Atlantic & Alpine, Southwestern and Southeastern Europe) it was possible to define a set of trans-European Conclusions organized in the following sections:•Main Shortcomings or barriers identified during the workshops for the full conformation of Local Networks for Climate Change Adaptation•Main Reasons identified after the workshops for the successful achievement of the expected outcomes•Learnt lessons and recommendations for workshop planning and facilitation•Evaluation of the level of implementation of the work plans defined by each local network•Assessment of the potential impact of the conformed local networks and of their impact on climate change governance
Incorporating Metabolic Thinking into Regional Planning: The Case of the Sierra Calderona Strategic Plan
(Cogitatio Press, 2019-01-01) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Perrotti, Daniela; Department of Architecture; University of Leuven
A metabolic study of the South-Eastern part of the Calderona Mountain Range (Sierra Calderona) was developed in 2014 as a part of the Sierra Calderona Strategic Plan (SCSP). The goal of the study was to define strategies to optimise materials and energy flows in the region and, thereby, enhance the sustainability of the entire regional system. Due to its location on the outskirts of the Metropolitan Area of Valencia, Sierra Calderona presents most of the metabolic challenges and potentials that characterise peri-urban areas, giving the SCSP case a wider and transferable interest. After introducing the scope, rationale, and research questions, the article first summarises the main theoretical and methodological frameworks underpinning the integration of metabolic studies in regional and urban planning. Following our literature review, the article focuses on the way in which the metabolic analyses were inputted and informed the different phases and outcomes of the SCSP: analysis and diagnosis, regional objectives and strategies, landscape and land-use plan, sectoral plans and pilot projects. This approach was based on the combination of complementary analytical methods such as material and energy flow accounting and Ecological Footprint Analysis. Additionally, the article reflects on how new conceptual tools such as the Functional Metabolic Areas were used in the SCSP in order to operate in a complex spatial system and to generate a regional metabolic model. Subsequently, the main contributions and shortcomings of the use of metabolic inputs in the SCSP are discussed by comparing the metabolic assessment approach adopted in the SCSP with available models and methods. Finally, our conclusions suggest potential improvements and future lines of research on a two-way implication between urban metabolism research and regional and urban planning practice.
Information and findings from the local networks: AELCLIC Project_DELIVERABLE 4
(2020-01-13) Galiana, Francisco; Servera, Emilio; Pedroli, Bas; Torregiani, Daniele; Marinaro, Ludovica; Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture; Universidad Politecnica Valencia; Polytechnic University of Valencia; Universitá di Bologna
This deliverable includes an overall reflection about the processes that took placein the last phases of the AELCLIC project and that led to the co-definition of key inputs and contents for future Landscape Adaptation Plans to Climate Change(LACAPs) in the 15 Pilot Landscapes of the AELCLIC project. In particular, the deliverable analyzes and compares the obtained results and summarizes the conclusions in a set of trans-European findings organized in the following sections: - Implementation of the outlines proposed for future LACAPs - Impact and Influence on Climate Change Governance - Consistency and alignment with EU directives and regional or local plans for Climate ChangeAdaptation
INTERNATIONAL MILESTONE-MEETING1 of the AELCLIC PATHFINDER project
(2019-03-27) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Torregiani, Daniele; Pedroli, Bas; Galiana, Francisco; Department of Architecture; Universitá di Bologna; Wageningen University and Research Centre; Universidad Politecnica Valencia
Review of the generation of local networks and the activation of the AELCLIC PATHFINDER project in its 16 European Pilot Landscapes
INTERNATIONAL MILESTONE-MEETING2 of the AELCLIC PATHFINDER project
(2019-06-24) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Torregiani, Daniele; Pedroli, Bas; Galiana, Francisco; Department of Architecture; Universitá di Bologna; Wageningen University and Research Centre; Universidad Politecnica Valencia
Review of the co-identification of Climate Change Impacts and Opportunities in the 16 European Pilot Landscapes included in the AELCLIC PATHFINDER project: Methods, Results and Adjustments.
INTERNATIONAL MILESTONE-MEETING3 of the AELCLIC PATHFINDER project
(2019-09-26) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Torregiani, Daniele; Pedroli, Bas; Galiana, Francisco; Department of Architecture; Universitá di Bologna; Wageningen University and Research Centre; Universidad Politecnica Valencia
Review of the co-definition of basic contents and structure for potential LACAPs (Landscape Adaptation Plans to Climate Change) in the 16 European Pilot Landscapes included in the AELCLIC PATHFINDER project: Methods, Results and Adjustments.
INTERNATIONAL MILESTONE-MEETING3 of the AELCLIC PATHFINDER project: REPORT INTERNATIONAL MEETING_AELCLIC PATHFINDER PROJECT
(2019-12-17) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Torregiani, Daniele; Department of Architecture; Universitá di Bologna
The International Meeting of the AELCLIC-Pathfinder project was designed to achieve the following goals: ● EXCHANGING EXPERIENCES on the AELCLIC activities developed in each of the 15 European Pilot Landscape included in the project ● NETWORKING: Identifying potential partners for future projects based on the works and results produced during the AELCLIC project ● EXPLORING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND CO-DEFINING POTENTIAL PROJECTS. ● PROVIDING NEW INFORMATION FOR THE FINAL OUTPUTS OF THE AELCLIC PROJECT. These final outputs will mainly include a comparative and explanatory analysis of the results in each Pilot Landscape (factors affecting the type and quality of the produced results) and a set Guidelines for the conformation of European Local Networks for Climate Change Adaptation.
KARELIA: Kulttuurimaisemat, maisemien evoluutio
(2018-02-15) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Arkkitehtuurin laitos
The studio course “Cultural Landscapes: the evolution of landscapes” was organized by the Aalto University Landscape Architecture programme in the spring term 2016 and explored the concept of cultural landscape, not as a particular type of designated and delimited landscape, but as the cultural dimension of any landscape. The concept of Cultural landscape is therefore perceived as the evolving expression of the interaction of the human being with the environment and the traces, physical patterns, social structures, productive systems and cultural meanings that the individuals or the collectives create as a consequence of their activity and presence in any given territory. The course was activated with a very simple analogy and with a set of questions: Can two close places with similar natural conditions and similar human backgrounds evolve into different landscapes?, How does it happen?, What remains and what stays?. In order to answer those questions it was decided to work on both sides of the Karelian border to assess how the division in 1945 and the subsequent social, economic and political transformations affected the character of its urban, agricultural, natural, industrial and infrastructural landscapes. That exploration would help us to understand the “cultural” factor behind the landscape by approaching the landscape as a human construct in which human decisions determine its evolution and by exploring new possibilities for its management.
Landscape Observatory of Finland: Annual Report 2018
(2019-01-30) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture
This report presents the main activities developed by the Landscape Observatory of Finland during the year 2018 as well as its Action Plan for 2019.
Landscape Planning: From Theory to Teaching
(2017-12-17) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture
Following the signing of the European Landscape Convention by different Spanish regions, landscape became a specific and necessary issue in regional and local planning. However, and after almost ten years, the results remain unclear and a constructive review, affecting also education, might be convenient. The lack of specific degrees in landscape architecture in Spain might partially explain the difficulties in the dissemination of the newly created landscape planning tools, although the introduction of consistent subjects in consolidated degrees like architecture, geography, agronomy, etc. or in some related masters, could have also served this purpose. The reality was nevertheless quite different since that teaching was seldom included in the university curricula, and when that happened, it tended to focus its attention in specific aspects, losing the transversal and proactive role that landscape was expected to have. Some of the most positive academic experiences came from those subjects or courses which tried to work hand in hand with this new planning context, enhancing a holistic perception of the territory, promoting a global understanding of urban, agricultural and natural areas, reading processes and patterns and, specially, emphasizing the proactive character of the landscape planning tools by overtaking formal description and by producing new models and clear spatial or normative determinations which could be conveniently introduced in the planning context. Also in those cases, multidisciplinary work, effective use of classical or new concepts like landscape unit, landscape assessment or green infrastructures, and a general understanding of the socio economic forces involved in the management or transformation of any landscape, proved to be a very useful tool to create both imaginative and realistic proposals, providing at the same time the global vision that landscape planners should have to establish the most harmonic possible dialogue between all the elements, interests and actors coexisting in any territory.
Landscape, people and climate change: Guidelines for the constitution of Local Networks for Landscape Adaptation To Climate Change: AELCLIC Project_DELIVERABLE 6
(2020-01-15) Pedroli, Bas; Patuano, Agnes; Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Torregiani, Daniele; Marinaro, Ludovica; Galiana, Francisco; Servera, Emilio; Department of Architecture; Wageningen University; Universitá di Bologna; Universidad Politecnica Valencia; Polytechnic University of Valencia
These guidelines synthetize the findings of the project in order to facilitate their use in other regions or landscapes. They have been prepared in a highly didactic and visual way in order to facilitate their use by a wide range of users (planners, local authorities, economic actors, NGOs, academic institutions, etc.)
A multidimensional model for the vernacular: Linking disciplines and connecting the vernacular landscape to sustainability challenges
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-08-06) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Bourgeau, Felix; Pedroli, Bas; Department of Architecture; Wageningen University and Research Centre
After developing a systematic analysis of the vernacular phenomenon in different disciplines, this paper presents a flexible model to understand the multiple factors and the different degrees of vernacularity behind the many processes that lead to the generation of material culture. The conceptual model offers an open, polythetic and integrative approach to the vernacular by assuming that it operates in different dimensions (temporal, socio-political, sociological, locational, epistemological, procedural, economic and functional), and that the many attributes or characteristics included in those dimensions are all relevant but not strictly necessary. The model is intended to facilitate a more methodical and rigorous connection between the vernacular concept and contemporary discourses on sustainability, resilience, globalization, governance, and rural-urban development. In addition, and due to its transdisciplinary character, the model will enable the development of comparative studies within and between a wide range of fields (architecture, landscape studies, design, planning and geography). A prospective analysis of the use of the model in rural landscapes reveals its potential to mediate between the protective approach that has characterized official planning during the last decades and emergent approaches that advocate the reinterpretation of the vernacular as a new form to generate new collective identities and to reconnect people and place.
New paradigms and concepts for urban nature: an integrative model practical applications in landscape planning education at Aalto university
(2019-09-08) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture; Egoz, Shelley; Gao, Lei
Despite the numerous definitions of some of the new basic concepts supporting the use of urban nature in landscape and urban planning (e.g. urban green infrastructures (UGI), ecosystem services (ESS), nature based solutions (NBS), Urban Sustainability and Resilience, etc.), the establishment of durable terms, grammars and frameworks remains elusive and escapes the limits of the many involved academic disciplines. This situation affects specially the application of those concepts in urban areas governed by a complex system of drivers and interests, as well as their use in the academic arena, in which systems thinking and multi, inter, trans-disciplinary approaches, challenge the canonical academic and professional boundaries. In fact, a systematic review of the use of those concepts reveals that quite often they are understood and operated differently by different groups. Urban nature, with its multiple meanings and dimensions, has historically been linked to landscape architecture practice and education, which in fact has acted as an amalgamating platform bringing together the formal, functional, ecological, perceptual, social, cultural and economic facets of nature and giving them a common purpose through landscape planning and design. Thus, and in contrast to other disciplines, the contribution of landscape architecture is located precisely in the intersection and integration of different types of knowledge, in the generation of potential synergies and in the definition of spatial and functional schemes that are often embodied with a high level of multifunctionality. This strategic situation imposes some obvious challenges in landscape architecture education which become more critical when the conceptual and methodological foundations of highly related disciplines undergo substantial changes or when new scientific, planning and design paradigms emerge. If knowledge is a highly interconnected web, landscape architecture, by its very nature, is located in a highly connected node and, therefore, is especially sensitive to peripheral changes. Following these preliminary remarks: the emergence of new urban-nature related concepts, their unclear interconnections and their relevance in landscape architecture education, this paper elaborates on three Research Questions: 1) Can the new set of urban-nature concepts be integrated in a more coherent and synthetic model? 2) How can this synthetic model be adopted in landscape architecture education?, Which kind of courses or activities could facilitate its practical use by landscape architecture students? 3) How does the synthetic model and its academic application respond to the expectations and needs of decision makers and experts from other disciplines?
Otaniemi : Towards and integrative Vision
(2018-01-09) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Tähtinen, Sari; Staffans, Aija; Mladenovic, Milos; Department of Architecture; Department of Built Environment; Planning and Transportation
Vision developed by the L-Group for the future development of Otaniemi. The document addresses the big transformations planned for the Otaniemi peninsula (from 2500 residents to 10,000 residents and from a Campus based area to a multifunctional and sustainable "town") and conciliates these transformations with the unique cultural and environmental assets of the area. The document includes an initial analysis and diagnosis, a set of planning strategies structured around different multiscalar infrastructures (Green-Blue, Grey and Red) and different alternatives for future Otaniemi. This document was produced to promote the future development of an integral vision or plan for Otaniemi.
Pedagogical and Academic Reflections from the iWater Summer Schools: Storm Water Management in Urban and Landscape Planning
(2018-09-10) Galan Vivas, Juanjo; Department of Architecture; Delarue, Stefanie; Dufour, Rachelle
The importance of blue-green infrastructure and sustainable stormwater management in planning has increased during the last decades. However, due to the systemic, multiscalar and multidimensional character of water, the use of multi-inter-transdisciplinary knowledge has become a precondition, generating at the same time new curricular and pedagogical challenges. On the other hand, Studio courses are solidly positioned at the core of many design and planning disciplines but have witnessed the increasing use of intensive formats that might affect the way in which the learning process is developed. This paper analyses - from a critical perspective and through a particular Case Study (iWater Summer Schools) - some of the potentials and challenges affecting the intersection between Studio-teaching, intensive learning processes and landscape planning in highly multidisciplinary conditions. In particular, and after conducting a literature review on studio-based and intensive courses, the paper proposes a set of strategic points to design and assess intensive landscape planning Studios. These points are used to critically discuss the methods, results and especially the learning processes that took place in the iWater Summer Schools and to propose some future pedagogic lines of research.

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