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Community Planning and Design SBEL1414

Studio Master: Ismail Said (PhD)

Semester 2 Session 2016/2017

Room 107, Block 05, FAB

b-ismail@utm.my; 0127907273

A. Preamble on Community and Its Landscape

Landscape architecture is a discipline that designs a comfortable and safe environment for human community. A good community is a settlement that promotes human health and well-being that offers rich social, economic and environmental benefits. A healthy and liveable community provides a range of affordable transportation, employment and housing through the concept of Live, Work and Play developments. To attain this the community incorporates several components of daily life: (1) preserving and enhancing valuable natural resources, (2) providing access to affordable, nutritious, and locally produced foods distributed for less cost, and (3) creating a unique sense of community and place (ACLA, 2017). For example, Taiping is an old town in the state of Perak provides plenty of greeneries and hills to its residents. Lake Gardens of the town is the largest recreational space that characterizes the townscape creating a serene and comfortable environment for the people to live in the town. Many houses are equipped with gardens and treed streets that become the green infrastructure of the town. These attributes influenced the residents to attach to the town with strong sense of satisfaction and belonging.

"The ability of communities to influence the nature growth, the quality of their environments, and their relationship to their environments" (Glover et al., 2008) is the concern in community planning. Community design embraces community planning, social architecture, community development, and community participation (Sanoff, 2000). Landscape architects work "toward a community-based model of landscape change sensitive to the lives of

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citizens for whom the plans being made. The process of landscape chnage naturally elicits divergent reactions from a wide variety of citizens." (Glover et al., 2008).

In Landscape Architecture, community design involves planning and designing shared space for a community for a variety of communal events and activities. In the cities of Solo and Yogjakarta, a communal space is surrounded by residences affording the residents to gather and participate in events such as wedding ceremony, playing gamelan and dancing, and welcoming a crowd of guests to the community. Its focal point is a pendopo, a large shelter for gathering and other social activities.

The concept is based on the notion that the environment works better when the people are actively involved in its creation and management. "Understanding stakeholder values and developing strategies that allow their representation is central to the development of community-based model of landscape change" (Glover et al., 2008).

Alleys and streets are recognised by rural and urban communities as communal place. They afford children to play within their own terms. They can become a temporal market which

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terms as pasar malam in Malaysia or pasar limpah in Java. More images of the markets and other public spaces will be shown in Lecture 1.

B. Aim of Community Planning Studio

After completing the studio program, the department expected you to understand how to plan and design a community space that links its people to the place.

I want you to be critical in your thinking about what landscape architecture can do for human community. I want you to be hungry in knowledge of human community and people's interaction with the environment. This studio program would enable you to think that creating a sustainable human community requires you to value people needs and fit them to the physical environment.

This course aims to impart the knowledge of community planning and design to landscape architecture students that could establish confidence in them to plan and design a public space for a community.

At the end of the course, the students are able:

1. To comprehend the contributing factors in planning and designing of community and its shared spaces;

2. To apply the knowledge of principles or fundamental of community planning and design to real sites for communal functions;

3. To integrate the physical and climatic factors of a place and social values of its people to plan and design a community; and

4. To develop a planning and design scheme of a community that reasonably apply the fundamental as stated in Objective 2.

C. Tasks and Projects

1. Literature review (2 weeks; 10%)Review on vocabularies of community planning and design which include (1) community participation, (2) social attributes, (3) social integrity, (4) physical and climate factors, (5) communal space, (6) communal rituals and rites, (7) sense of place, (8) place attachment, (9) place identity, (10) place dependence, (11) landscape fragmentation, (12) everyday life landscape, (13) neighbourhood, and (14) community resilience.

2. Minor Project (5 weeks; 30%)

We are going to design the school compound of Primary School at Taman Anggerik, Sekudai, Johor. We are going to develop a design that affords environmental learning for middle childhood children in the intermediate spaces of their school.

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3. Major Project (7 weeks; 40%)

4. We going to prepare a master plan for a Penghulu complex at Mukim Api Api in Pontian District that is composed of Offices of Penghulu, Futsal Club, Batik Canting Centre, Centre of Black Pepper Industry, Football training centre of Parit Kudus FC, Community facilities are performance stage and football fields.

5. Interludes (12%)

1. Reading a story from BBC News, Foreign Affairs, Bangkok Post, Japan Times, New Scientists, and Korea Times (Twice a week)

2. Preparation of Youtube Video of Studio Projects

3. Preparation of a sketchbook cum journal.

4. Write-up on Journey of SBEL1414 on two 4X8 feet plywoods (Once a week)

5. Public Speaking: Listen to orations from UG of Harvard, Yales, Cornell and Princeton and orate your essay (Once amonth)

6. Write a short Essays (500 words) on matters of Humanities and Socialization

7. Watching and listening to videos of Speech and Research on Humanities and Socialization

1. Beauty of Mathematics https://www.facebook.com/pg/Cornell/videos/?ref=page_internal

2. Tree Climbing Expedition

https://www.facebook.com/Cornell/app/349313058487732/

3. Hearing in a jumping spiderhttps://www.facebook.com/Cornell/app/349313058487732/

4. Ball don’t lie https://www.facebook.com/pg/UniversityOfMichigan/videos/?ref=page_internal

5. Mark Zuckberg Speech at IIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1JEJ8n9Wzs

6. Barak Obama oration that made him president

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPwDe22CoY

7. Jack Ma - Even A Failure Can Become A Huge Success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhk_5UBZDQA

8. Honeybee Democracy

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m8HKLpbBzg

9. Life is your talents discovered by Ken Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLbXrNGVXfE

6. Lectures

1. What is a Literature Review? (Ismail)2. Meanings Space and Place in a Community (Ismail)3. Spatial Planning of Community Spaces (Hisyam)4. Site Planning of School Ground for Environmental Learning (Ismail)5. Community Participation in Homogeneous Environment (Hisyam)6. Generate Design Concept and Translate to Master Plan (Ismail)7. Urban Communities in Asean Cities (Mongkol Khan)8. Artworks for Urban Communities (Irfan Suria)9. Rendering for Community Projects (Norfanty)10. Rural Community Attributes in District of Pontain (Joharudin)

7. Community Service Responsibility (5%)

We will hold two motivation workshops with school children of Mukim Api Api, Pontian. The first workshop is to motivate Form Five school pupils on the wonder of science that will trigger them to study to university level. We are going to hold the workshop at Taman Negara Kukup; a mangrove forest. The second workshop is a field excursion with Standard Five and Six pupils from the Mukim. We are going to hold it at Gunung Pulai Forest Reserve. Our tasks are (1) to prepare pamphlets and lecture materials, and (2) to participate with the pupils in the workshops.

8. Attendance and Class Participation (3%)

Our studio begins at 8:30am and end at 4:00pm on Mondays and Thursday. All must come on time and show enthusiasm to the class program. All must always equipped with the tools required for the design studio. All must dress well that demonstrates a good personality mimicking a professional. Late submission will be considered no submission. At the end of the semester, I would like you to possess good knowledge on community planning and good attitude.

9. Studio Task Force (3%)

1. Journey of SBEL1414—Weekly write-up of studio activities and performance2. Youtube—Video preparation of studio activities and performance3. Logistic—Booking UTM vehicles for field visit4. Class Monitor—Managing the studio environment5. Storybook keeper—Managing reading and borrowing of storybooks

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6. Coordinator of CSR—Managing materials and workshop of CSR7. Studio Technician—Setting TV and laptop for lecture and other events8. Public Relation Personnel—Reception and communication with guests

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TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Lectures, Field Study, Directed Reading, Case Study, Problem-Based Learning, Group Discussions, and Critique Sessions

Week Date Activities

1 13/2/17

16/2/17

Introduction to Landscape Community Planning and Design studio

Lecture 1: What is Literature Review?

Project 1: Literature review on vocabularies of community planning on:(1) community participation, (2) social attributes, (3) social integrity, (4) physical and climate factors, (5) communal space, (6) communal rituals and rites, (7) sense of place, (8) place attachment, (9) place identity, (10) place dependence, (11) landscape fragmentation, (12) everyday life landscape, (13) neighbourhood, and (14) community resilience.

Lecture 2: Meanings Space and Place in a Community

Beauty of Mathematics https://www.facebook.com/pg/Cornell/videos/?ref=page_internal

Read BBCNews and Oration

Continue Project 1 on literature review and class discussion

2 20/2/17

23/2/17

Lecture 3: Spatial Planning of Community Spaces

Read Foreign Affairs and Oration

Tree Climbing Expedition https://www.facebook.com/Cornell/app/349313058487732/

Preparation of Presentation on vocabularies of community planning

Presentation of vocabularies of community planning

Submission of sketchbook

Oration

Preparation of Youtube Video of Studio Projects

3 27/2/17

2/3/17

Lecture 4: Environmental Learning for School Children

Introduction to school landscape Project 2 (30%): Planning and designing school compound of Primary School at Taman Anggerik, Sekudai, Johor

Read Japan Times

Oration

Site visit and inventory to the primary school

Read BBCNews or National Geographic

Hearing in a jumping spiderhttps://www.facebook.com/Cornell/app/349313058487732/

Introduction of essay on Humanities and Socialization

Site analysis of school ground and presentation of site analysis plan

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