This research project looks for ways to maintain historic estates in a sustainable manner. It also looks at the role the landscape and garden architect can play in these revaluations and the appropriate policy context that can facilitate them. The emphasis is on creating social added value on a cultural-historical, ecological, aesthetic, social or economic level. The project pays attention to contemporary interpretations of historic management traditions of historic estates including timber extraction, food supply or wildlife management. It also addresses new uses such as natural burial grounds, site-specific art trails or other activities that can generate income for preservation. Some thirty best practices of multiple space use of historic estates from the Netherlands and abroad are first studied in depth to get a picture of specific problems and opportunities. Then, in about five living labs, future scenarios for revalorization will be explored using design research and in close interaction with landowners, government agencies, designers and other actors relevant to or involved in the specific estates. The "living labs" will be linked to design workshops within the courses in landscape and garden architecture, landscape development, sculpture and autonomous design. The combination of literature analysis with the findings from the best-practices and the living labs will give rise to concrete implementable proposals for new uses, to policy recommendations to facilitate this, and to reflections on the possibilities for an expanded role of landscape and garden architecture.
Behoud door ontwikkeling is een onderzoeksproject van Futures through Design.
Steven Heyde, Bert De Roo
Sylvie Van Damme
01/04/2017 - 30/09/2020
PWO-middelen
PWO_Projectmatig onderzoek
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven
Universiteit Antwerpen