Code: 07-2-08

TYPOLOGY OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

ECTS: 5
Course coordinator: Prof. Dr. Ana Kuan
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Ana Kuan
No. of hours: 125

Lectures: 10
Lab. work: /

Seminar: 15
Other: 100

2. Entry requirements:
General conditions for enrolment in doctoral studies.
3. Objectives of the course and intended learning outcomes:
(competences)
Educational aim: Recognition of typological articulation and introduction to the
methodic of typological classification of landscapes. Ability to recognise landscape
types, production of classifications (typologies of cultural landscapes).
Intended learning outcome: Students are familiarised with processes in which
presentations of the landscape are formed and their impact of changes in the
materiality of the landscape.
4. Syllabus outline:
The subject deals with the concept of the landscape in the entire possible typological
extent.
It presents the landscape as a material thing and as a presentation. It presents
landscape as a cultural construct. Recognition of landscape as cultural practice.
Iconography of landscape. Presentation of landscapes and the role of understanding
landscapes in building these presentations. Landscape as symbol, as a space of
belonging, as heritage.
Natural and cultural factors and their landscape formation role. Problems in
determining the boundaries and size order of landscape units. Criteria for classifying
into typological units by morphological, structural and geological standards. Regional
landscape types in Slovenia and their place in social presentation of the space.
Typology of the most characteristic world landscapes.
Landscape typology in spatial planning. Exceptional and everyday landscapes.
Landscape Convention as guiding document.
The subject is concluded with seminars on defining typological characteristics in
selected landscape sectors and their classification into types: presentation of seminar
tasks is part of the teaching process, as well as discussion of comparatively treated
cases.
5. Literature (in the case of books and monographs, study sources are only
selected chapters from them):
A Planning Classification of Scottish Landscape Resources. 1971.Countryside
Commission of Scotland, Glasgow.
COSGROVE, D., DANIELS, S. ur.: The Iconography of Landscape. Cambridge,

1988. 318 p.
CROWE, S., MITCHELL, M., 1988. Pattern of Landscapes. Packard Publishing
Ltd. Chichester
KUAN, A., 1998. Krajina kot nacionalni simbol. ZPS, Ljubljana, 224 p.
MARUIC, I. in dr., 1998. Regionalna razdelitev krajinskih tipov v Sloveniji, 1-5.
MOP, Ljubljana.
OGRIN, D.,1996. Strategija varstva krajine v Sloveniji krajine. MOP, Ljubljana.
Mejac, . (ured.), 1993. Tipoloka klasifikacija krajine. Mednarodni posvet.
MOP, Ljubljana.

6. Teaching methods:
Lectures, consultations for preparation of seminar task.
7. Assessment methods:
Seminar task (written) and oral defence.
8. References:
Kuan Ana
1. KUAN, Ana, GOLOBI, Mojca. Die Zukunft der Kulturlandschaften Sloweniens
= The future of Slovenian cultural landscapes. Topos (Mnch.), June 2004, vol.
47, p. 79-86.
2. KUAN, Ana. Constructing landscape conceptions. Jola, spring 2007, p. 30-41,
ilup.
3. KUAN, Ana. Krajina kot nacionalni simbol. ZPS, Ljubljana 1998, 224 p.