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Learning by Practice, High-Pressure Student Ateliers

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Two international and interdisciplinary high pressure student ateliers have been done and evaluated, one to explore possible future scenario’s for Strofylia (Greece) as requested by local and regional authorities and stakeholders, the other to put urban agriculture on the Lugo (Galicia, Spain) agenda. Aims of the ateliers have been to create a student learning environment in practice and make use of the expected conceptual flexibility and creativity of the students to come up with unexpected ideas. We have used interviews to evaluate the ateliers. The ateliers provide a rich learning by practice environment and offer new perspectives to practitioners and policy makers. Not much study has been carried out on high-pressure student ateliers in land use planning and landscape architecture. An outline is presented for a more thorough study of this type of ateliers to understand advantages and shortcomings of different atelier approaches.

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  1. Van Hall Larenstein, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 9001, 6880 GB, Velp, The Netherlands

    Wim Timmermans, Ad Koolen & Ad Woudstra

  2. Urban and Regional Planning, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, University of Potchefstroom, Hoffman Street, Building E4, Room 13, 2520, Potchefstroom, South Africa

    Juanee Cilliers

  3. University of Santiago de Compostela, Labora de Terra, Campus universitario, 27002, Lugo, Spain

    Andres Garcia

  4. University of Groningen, Landleven 1, 9747 AD, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Terry van Dijk

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Timmermans, W., Cilliers, J., Garcia, A., Koolen, A., Woudstra, A., van Dijk, T. (2014). Learning by Practice, High-Pressure Student Ateliers. In: Roggema, R. (eds) The Design Charrette. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7031-7_11

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