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Working Group 3
Advancing Education Through
Landscape Architecture Archives
Mission
WG3 aims to strengthen higher education in Landscape Architecture (LA) by integrating archives as key tools in teaching, research, and professional training. By supporting collaboration between universities, students, and practitioners, WG3 encourages innovative teaching methods and promotes the use of archives in design studios, thesis work, and research at all academic levels.
It also offers training for professionals to enhance their skills in using archival materials in landscape design, planning, and management.
Key Activities
1. Mapping Educational Tools & Methods
Identifying how archives are being used in LA education (e.g., history, drawing, design, management courses).
Activities:
- Online workshops focused on teaching history, design, and research using archives.
- Short term scientific mission (STSM) to compile and synthesize findings into a structured report.
2. Surveying Educational Needs
Understanding students’ and teachers’ needs and gaps in using archives for education.
Activities:
- Short term scientific mission (STSM) to conduct surveys and produce a report on user needs and areas for improvement.
3. Co-Developing Teaching Innovations
Creating new teaching strategies using archives.
Activities:
- Co-creation workshops.
- Short term scientific mission (STSM) to finalise the teaching innovations report.
4. Launching Courses & Training for Education
Developing a joint online course for students and a training school for educators and professionals.
Activities:
- 1 international course or 2 training schools.
- Course materials compiled into a shared syllabus for adoption in higher education and lifelong learning programs.
Recent Activites of Working Group 3
The Catalogue teaching with Landscape Architecture Archives is the result of a collaborative effort of members of the ConnectLAA project and their colleagues. The Catalogue compiles 30 examples of courses and teaching modules that integrate archives and archival materials as educational sources. In the first year of the project, the WG3, dedicated to Education, mapped […]
30 June 2026
© David ClarkIn 2026, WG3 members organized four Regional Workshops. The overarching aim of these Regional Workshops is to initiate dialogue between teachers and students to identify their wishes and needs, and if possible, to start co-creating new methods and tools for using landscape architecture archives and archival materials in education. This co-creation process will continue into 2027. […]
10 May 2026
© Hanna Sorsa-SautetThis two-day event brought together experts and practitioners to explore the future of collaborative archives in landscape architecture, heritage preservation, and beyond, with 11 participants attending onsite and 10 joining online. The meeting focused on advancing WG1’s collaborative inventory roadmap through metadata and technical planning for the online archive map, brainstorming second-year activities and STSM […]
10 May 2026