Invitation to the 17th Weihenstephaner Forum 2024
"LANDscape CREDibility - Cultural Landscape as a Work and Measure of Everyday Life"
The Associate Professorship of Landscape Architecture and Regional Open Space (LAREG) is pleased to invite you to the 17th Weihenstephaner Forum on Friday, October 25th, 2024.
As in our research, the focus will be on the social and aesthetic aspects of the transformation of urban and cultural landscapes. Specifically, we ask: How can the goals and methods of transforming everyday landscapes be communicated credibly? By communication, we do not mean "taking citizens along"—but rather, empowering them to become active shapers — authorizing, enabling, and inspiring them.
This includes active participation in planning processes and transformation projects. Active participation goes beyond mere procedural citizen involvement: it means the creative activity of a collective, intergenerational work for a sustainable everyday life. Our guiding principle is the European cultural landscape, its potential for biological and social diversity, distinctiveness, and beauty. This demands much more than just protecting its "recreational value" or its "naturalness." The benchmark is the European Landscape Convention, which Germany has not yet joined, and the right to landscape enshrined therein.
We aim to ask from a European perspective: Who can, may, and should shape cultural landscapes today—and how do they change as a result? The Weihenstephaner Forum 2024 is therefore themed "LAND CRED landscape credibility" and focuses on social participation in the design and use of landscapes. Credibility as credible landscape competence means being actively involved in the concrete transformation of cultural landscapes and contributing to their success. The forum will present and discuss European examples of old and new frameworks for active, communal landscape actions.
In two thematic blocks, the focus will be on landscape as a human work of everyday life — the human landscape condition — and landscape as a human measure of everyday spaces — the human landscape scale. We plan to mix English and German contributions. After an introduction to the right to landscape, concrete examples of cohesion landscapes, arrival landscapes, everyday timescapes, landscape access codes, and cooperative landscapes will be presented. The second part will include an introduction to landscape textures, followed by discussions on landscape proportions, landscape morphologies, and landscape limits and commons.
The presentations and two roundtables will equally address European theory and practice. We aim to introduce active thinkers and thoughtful doers—and hope for many guests who share this passion!
Admission is free, and no prior registration is required. We look forward to your participation!
Venue: WZW Lecture Hall 21, TUM Campus Weihenstephan, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising