Landscape Urbanism explores the role that design and designers (from architects, landscape architects, urban designers and planner's perspectives can play when confronted with large-scale territories (metropolises, cities, rural environments, infrastructural and productive landscapes). At these scales of intervention, territories are configured by sets of economic policies, political decisions, socio-cultural structures and engineering solutions and design inputs are left out or moved to the fringes. Landscape Urbanism at the AA explores design as a mechanism to orchestrate, choreograph and negotiate their implementation at large scales over time. It seeks to integrate critical thinking with practice, such as cartographic representation, scripted simulations and GIS mapping, all of which are widely available in geographical research but relatively untapped within design disciplines interested in large territorial projects.
