Ortaçeşme V. (Yürütücü), Atik M., Yılmaz İ.
AB Destekli Diğer Projeler, 2021 - 2024
TELOS, our common goal, means moving
towards a European Landscape Economy for a Sustainable Urban Development. Our
project brings five European metropolitan areas together to address this
spatial and educational challenge in a new way: we link Rome, Stuttgart,
Brussels, Gdansk and Antalya.TELOS contributes to a large-scale transnational
educational transformation and empowers a new generation of visionary
professionals, decision-makers and urbanites, to address sustainability
challenges through problem-solving approaches that integrate systems thinking,
anticipatory strategic competences, real life scenarios and insights, and
interpersonal skills.TELOS aims to build ‘knowledge and action bridges’ between
the seemingly competing systems of ecology and economy, as they appear in our
everyday urban environment.
The target groups of the TELOS
project are primarily university staff and students from the following subject
domains: urban planning, landscape planning, architecture and landscape
architecture, agriculture, regional development, economics, business
administration and real estate. Related stakeholder groups are equitable finance
players, real estate developers and related industries, NGOs, municipalities,
and the wider public, aiming to break down barriers and foster collaboration
while encouraging knowledge exchange at all levels.
The project has the following
objectives:
- To develop the first
Landscape Economy curriculum by which learners can deeply immerse in the
theories, dialectics and methodologies associated with these emerging concepts
- To build capacity among
university teachers, enabling them to successfully implement interdisciplinary
and transformative learning settings
- To build up key
competences for sustainable urban development
- To create and share
knowledge, by documenting TELOS methodology as an open educational resource
- To disseminate the TELOS
curriculum and methodology as widely as possible.
The project includes the following
main activities:
- Development of the TELOS
curriculum (design, testing, evaluation, exploitation and dissemination)
- Conceptualisation and
implementation of two TELOS staff training events.
- Piloting the TELOS
curriculum by means of two blended learning events. The blended learning events
consist of the following elements: the TELOS online course, the TELOS local lab
and the TELOS charette.
- Implementation of two
Multiplier Events during which we involve a wider stakeholder network and
diversified audiences into the development and dissemination of the TELOS
intellectual outputs.
The
Project outputs are:
- Intellectual Output 1: TELOS
Landscape Economy curriculum. This includes all open educational resources,
such as
lecture recordings, a glossary of
core terminology, presentations and learning materials.
- Intellectual Output 2: TELOS
Landscape Economy teaching/learning toolbox. This output is targeted to
educators in the sense of a facilitation handbook. It will include the
theoretical background of landscape economy, the learning goals and competence
framework of the TELOS curriculum, methodical guidance for interdisciplinary
learning settings, workshop facilitations guidance, assessment criteria and
evaluation methods, assignment descriptions, and full evidence of the TELOS
experience.
- Substantial capacity and skills
development among the core target groups of the TELOS project, which will be transferable
to other European audiences and up-scaled in other European locations.
Our methodical framework embraces a
pedagogical action research cycle, which will allow for a rapid prototyping on
the TELOS curriculum, early testing and continuous adaptation and improvement
based on the feedback of the actual end users.
The project is expected to have its
main impact in the following two dimensions:
Short term impact on Higher
Education: more effective education for sustainable development through staff
capacity building and curriculum innovation. The following main competence
fields will be addressed: (1)
systems thinking, (2) anticipatory competence, (3) normative competence, (4)
strategic competence, and (5) interpersonal competence.
Long term impact on the local
communities and their territorial contexts: mainstreaming TELOS competences
will transform planning and development practices. This will lead to better
spatial design and planning solutions characterised by sustainable economic
models that support social and environmental goals. Keywords of this landscape-based
approach are: circular economy, ecosystem services, green infrastructure,
sustainable housing, digitalisation and smart city and community applications, all combined with democratic leadership skills, creative financing
models, and innovative governance.