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The MTL: Phase 2 Strategic Partnership project aied to expand the possibilities for both performing arts makers and landscape architects to develop their practices within notions of the current European social landscape, exploring both the domestic and inter-country tensions that landscape contains, both literally and metaphorically. These outcomes have been integrated into subject-specific contexts in the following ways: Across the performing arts there is an increasing concern with how compositional practices – practices of making, invention, and ‘writing’ might address social questions, and engage with enlarged publics, as well as spaces and places, in new ways, in order to expand their reach across all of our teaching experiences and within our institutions. This is one of the concerns of artistic research, and the learning outcomes directly feed this area of inquiry. Within landscape architecture and urban planning, finding ways to explore and address the lived experience of performativity in space has become a key pedagogical concern, and the learning outcomes helped to shape this element. The teaching staff and students who participated in the activities have been exposed to methods and practices that were new to their respective fields. MTL:Phase 2 relied on the transfer of skills from one field/discipline to the other, ensuring the transversal nature of the programme.More specifically the project:1. Brought together students and staff from different institutions in order to approach and encounter landscape in new and innovative ways2. Used landscape as a starting point, opening doors to a reconsideration of place and human and social exchange within place3. Encouraged performing artists and landscape architects to expand their aesthetic vocabularies and the possibilities for their creative practices through exploring one another's disciplines4. Explored the notion of local landscape, design and architectural frameworks for understanding and intervening with culture in a political, cultural and financial context.Simultaneously, new thinking from the design fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning increasingly explores the performative aspects of their own fields, but have traditionally not engaged with performing artists and performing arts professionals to do so. Moreover, there has been a recent strong turn in thinking around urban and rural landscape design and planning toward engagement with the social questions that regulate land use, spatial occupancy in design, and their implications for community development. The projects activities, carried out by a consortium of four partners from three different European countires, tackled all these aspects by bringing together artists, scholars, designers, students, specific environments, across European institutions, with explorations of community, theory, and creative practice. By doing this, the project uncoverwd, revealed and facilitated relationships among human, biological, social, cultural and technological landscapes, reaching the following results:a. New methods were developed to support the performance of the future in a technological world helping to enhance the relevance of liveness and intermediality to future audiences b. New cultural impacts related to these methods were targeted, charted, traced, explored and enhancedc. A further exploration of how deep thinking around questions of migration, community cohesion, and landscape and environment can influence the performativity of spaces for both performance makers and landscape designers in a Europe increasingly influenced by intercultural dynamicsd. A disciplinary encounter was developed where the boundaries between performance creation and the architecturality of urban and rural spaces dissolvee. The experiences derived from a-d above have been turned into a cohesive blueprint for a future pedagogical framework, through the production of concrete outcomes: an online textbook (as a collection of articles), multimedia web resources, new curricula at Master level and a number of upcoming initiatives for the exploitation of the results beyond the European borders.
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