Learning from landscape: Time as an element of renaturalization of the city

Abstract

The workshop "Renaturalization of Gran San Blas" is presented as an interdisciplinary teaching project where “time” is a decisive design requirement to work with the landscape in the city. It was carried out during three days in which students from different nationalities -from the University of Saxion (The Netherlands) and from the University Camilo José Cela (Spain)- worked with a digital tool not included in their academic curriculum. The most special condition of the workshop was having to work with a timeline which represents the renaturalization scenarios of the neighborhood and which allowed to create a common interest among students. The factor of time, has been treated from a divergent thinking, making use of different landscape references, and from a convergent thinking, making use of multiple real data offered by the City Council of Madrid. This approach allowed students to achieve their proposals in the short time of the workshop.