Landscape and nature phylosophy

Duration

36h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Vincent Furnelle

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Reading, analysis, comments, discussions of contempory texts on nature conception and landscape theory:
- Vincent Furnelle : Profondeur de la peau, grain du paysage
- Vincent Furnelle : Si les fleurs n'étaient que belles... Réflexions sur le paysage olfactif
- Frédéric Gros : Marcher, une philosophie - Michel Corajoud : Le paysage c'est l'endroit où le ciel et la terre se touchent - Alain Roger : La double artialisation du paysage - Erwin Straus : L'espace de la géographie et l'espace du paysage - Marc Augé : Non-lieux - Michel de Certeau, Pierre Mayol : Le quartier in : L'invention du quotidien - Pascale d'Erm : Citta Slow, un réseau international in : Vivre plus lentement
- Joseph Conrad : Heart of darkness

Comparison of these texts with the concepts of the sensitive analysis and the practice of the project as a whole

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- To confront the reflections of different nature and landscape theorists -To confront these reflections with the sensitive approach to landscape and with the practice of the project as a whole -To consider how men have historically designed and perceived the nature and the landscape -To understand and analyse the fact that nature concept, landscape design and perception are always underpinned by philosophical a priori

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Basic references ( Baseline) in philosophy - especially on the Concept of nature and the Aesthetics of landscapes Practice of the project

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Ex cathedra course Comments and discussion on the basis of concrete examples.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face

Recommended or required readings

Inter alia:
Vincent Furnelle, Profondeur de la peau, grain du paysage (conferences) Nice, june 2015
Vincent Furnelle, Si les fleurs n'étaient que belles... Réflexions sur le paysage olfactif (conferences) Escragnolles, may 2018
Michel Corajoud, Le paysage, c'est l'endroit où le ciel et la terre se touchent, Actes Sud, 2010
Erwin Straus, Du sens des sens, Millon, 2000
Alain Roger, La théorie du paysage en France, Champ vallon, 1995
Marc Augé, Non-lieux, Seuil, 1992
Michel de Certeau, L'invention du quotidien, Gallimard, 1994
Pascale d'Erm, Vivre plus lentement, Ulmer, 2010
Joseph Conrad, Heart of darkness, 1902

More extensive bibliography given in class

Oral examination: Oral presentation of a personal essay: comments, discussion and confrontation of one of the concepts studied in class with the practice of landscape
Evaluation criteria: Comprehension of the concepts studied in class, personal appropriation of these concepts and critical mind, structuration and argumentation, langage and bibliography

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

vincent.furnelle@hech.be

Association of one or more MOOCs

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