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Abstract

This factsheet is the product of the students’ work with Procedural Theory in the course Urban Landscape Design during the spring term of 2025. The aim of the assignment is to reflect on and communicate urban landscape design working processes, by studies of sketching processes and creative thinking. The procedural theory or design process is a step-by-step procedure and exploratory method that applies a problem-solving approach to landscape design. According to Murphy (2016), a clearly defined design problem increases the likelihood of a successful resolution, where information intake and knowledge-based thinking during the design process is a critical part in achieving a successful design outcome (Bursic and Altman, 1997; Murphy, 2016). This factsheet shows some examples of the design process, and focuses mainly on reflecting on and describing the role and importance of sketching as an investigative and communicative tool that permeates the students' attempts to describe selected aspects of the design process. In this context, the design process facilitates testing, evaluation and clarification of the creative development (Hoffman 2019). The students' suggestions regarding the design flow underline, to some extent, the sketch as a crucial tool in the search for design and aesthetic solutions.The course Urban Landscape Design (LK0400) is an independent bachelor’s level course focusing on design of urban green spaces, offered at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and run by the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (LTV faculty). The following abstracts and poster presentations present the students’ thoughts and reflections through visualisations and descriptive text, and show attempts to verbalise the design process steps/phases. The assumptions made and described in this factsheet are based on literature studies of procedural theory, as well as on the students’ previous experiences of the design process, and through individual and group reflections and discussions.

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LTV-fakultetens faktablad
2025, number: 2025:5
Publisher: Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture

Publication identifier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.54612/a.2qq4vievo6

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/140795