Overview
Green infrastructure facilitates the use of natural resources to generate ecosystem services including provision of edible products, clean drinking water and fresh air. Green infrastructure is vital for physical and mental well-being in cities, and is known to promote social cohesion and a sense of security. Design and planning of living environments must therefore acknowledge these intrinsic connections between nature and society and consciously develop strategies that facilitate these interactions, particularly in urban and suburban areas.
Teaching at the Institute of Landscape Planning and Ecology therefore combines basic principles of ecology with methods and techniques of landscape planning and design enabling targeted in-depth studies (see figure).
We work in an interdisciplinary manner on the ecological challenges in urban ecosystems and landscape planning and offer lectures, seminars and excursions for students of the following study programmes, and as part of “Studium Generale” cross-faculty courses:
- BSc/MSc Architecture and Urban Planning
- MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design
- BSc/MSc Environmental Engineering
- MSc Infrastructure Planning
- MSc Water Resources Engineering and Management
- BSc Traffic Engineering
Course offer
During the summer semester, we usually offer or contribute across disciplines to the following courses:
- Lecture "Einführung in die Ökologie"
- Seminar on various topics within the area of "Stadtökologie und ökosystemares Entwerfen" and "Stadt und Landschaft"
- Studios / Projects on various topics within the area of "Stadt und Landschaft", for example, Nature-Based Marketplaces
- Studio "IRD I" (Integrated Research and Design I)
- Seminar "Methods and Tools"
- Lecture and Seminar "Urban Ecology and Ecosystem Design I"
- Seminar "Research Methods II"
- Module "Grundlagen der Landschafts- und Umweltplanung" (Lecture "Landschaftsplanung")
- Module "Quantitative Umweltplanung" (Lecture "Analyse- und Bewertungsmethoden in der Raum- und Umweltplanung", Exercise "GIS-gestützte Analyse- und Bewertungsmethoden")
- Module "Fallstudie Umweltplanung I" (Seminar / Exercise "Umwelt- und Landschaftsplanung")
- Lecture "Introduction to Integrated Planning"
- Lecture „Lärmschutz und Umweltwirkungen an Straßen“
During the summer semester, we usually offer or contribute across disciplines to the following courses:
- Seminar on various topics within the area of "Stadtökologie und ökosystemares Entwerfen" and "Stadt und Landschaft"
- Studios / Projects on various topics within the area of "Stadt und Landschaft"
- Studio "IRD II" (Integrated Research and Design II), for example, Urban Transformation: Schoettle-Areal
- Lecture and Seminar "Urban Ecology and Ecosystem Design II" (GeoDesign)
- Seminar "Werkzeuge der räumlichen Planung"
- Seminar "Research Methods I"
- Module "Umweltbiologie" (Lecture "Terrestrische und aquatische Ökologie I")
- Module "Naturwissenschaften": Seminar and Exercise "Aquatische/Terrestrische Ökosysteme"
- Module "Verkehrswegebau und Umweltschutz"
- Module "Environmental Aspects": Lecture "Ecological Aspects of Infrastructure Planning"
- Module "Environmental Aspects": Seminar "Environmental Impact Assessment"
- Module "Applied GIS": Exercises on "GIS in Environmental and Regional Planning"
Qualification work
We are currently assigning topics in the field of urban ecology, in particular in the areas of urban green infrastructure, nature-based solutions, urban renaturation, urban biodiversity and co-habitation, evaluation and appreciation of natural elements and urban landscapes as well as in the field of state-wide analyzes of open space in Baden-Württemberg and the Modeling of nutrient cycles.
The topics can usually be dealt with in an application-related manner as well as on a theoretical level. They may be related to our research projects.
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. L. Fischer or Dr. Black by Raumer. After an initial discussion on your suggested topic, if necessary, you will work out your exposé, which will serve as the basis for registering the topic.