Chair of landscape architecture : Estonian University of Life Sciences
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2021, 2022
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Estonian University of Life Sciences. Chair of Landscape Architecture
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Estonian University of Life Sciences
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This booklet has been prepared as an introduction to our chair and should give you an insight into our teaching programme and examples of students’ works, research on international projects as well as activities by staff and students. This edition of the booklet updates the information on teaching and research staff and it also reflects the fact that since the first edition we have, like everyone else, had to cope and adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic. Moving to online or hybrid teaching posed challenges, especially for tutoring on studio-based design courses. However, we and our students rose to the challenge and have managed to maintain our standards. Another casualty of the restrictions has been a period of time with no international travel to project meetings or conferences and this is reflected in the booklet as well. We hope to resume our international activities as soon as we can.
As a small programme we have certain special possibilities - everyone knows one another, staff and students relate to each other rather informally and there is a relaxed atmosphere which students from many other countries find refreshing. The student life in Tartu is very rich and enjoyable. International staff and students are well-supported and the reputation of Estonia as a country with the most advanced e-services is well-deserved. The chair of landscape architecture was established in 1995 and since 2009 has been led by Professor Dr Simon Bell. The increasingly international and multi-disciplinary team of the chair has expanded, developed an international teaching programme and participated in many international research and educational cooperation activities. The teaching programme consists of a three-year bachelor degree programme followed by a two-year master degree in two versions - an Estonian version attuned to the specific needs of the Estonian market, and an International version (but mainly taught together). In addition, there are doctoral students. The bachelor programme is taught primarily in Estonian (with some English elements) while the master programme is primarily taught in English and some courses are duplicated into Estonian and English versions or are split into different versions. Students may defend their bachelor and master theses in either Estonian or English.
The staff is very international: Chair Professor Simon Bell is from the UK while there are teachers and researchers from Estonia (the majority), Germany, Latvia, China, the UK and Poland. Besides landscape architects, we also have staff who are geographers, archaeologists, arboriculturalists, art historians and those with a background in architecture and forestry.
Our research is also international and we recently completed a large EU-funded project focusing on the health and well-being potential of urban blue spaces. We led the production of a book and associated websites. This project features in the booklet and you are welcome to download the book which is Open Access. This focus on landscape and well-being is one of the specific strengths we have built, although we also carry out research in other fields.
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