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Professur für Landschaftsarchitektur regionaler Freiräume LAREG Fakultät für Architektur Technische Universität München

Professur für Landschaftsarchitektur regionaler Freiräume Emil-Ramann-Str. 6 D-85354 Freising

Tel: +49.8161.71.4152 Fax: +49.8161.71.4111

www.arc.ed.tum.de/lareg

WS 2021/22

The wind turbine as neighbor Modul Research Methods in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism The module consists of two seminars to be attended in parallel, Mapping and Research through Design: In the seminar, mapping is taught as a practical drawing instrument - far beyond graphics and representation of spatial relationships - to make the non-physically perceptible visible in drawing mapping with the help of physical-material structures. Mapping becomes an analytical and research tool to investigate the mediating level between social and physical space and its spatial qualities. In the subsequent seminar Research through Design we will deal with the theory of design research, with quality criteria of scientific knowledge and their application by using the mapping results as a basis for our design research.

Discussions about wind turbines are held especially with regard to the "scenery" as well as the "settlement distance" - and so far almost exclusively in connection with upcoming planning. The question of how working wind turbines are perceived after some time in their spatial proximity, as a "neighborhood", has been little studied so far (apart from immission and medical research).

Paul Gipe, U.S. author, attorney, industry analyst, and one of the pioneers of wind energy use, in his 1995 classic Design as if People Matter: Aesthetic Guidelines for the Wind Industry, called for designers, developers, and operators of wind turbines to make every effort to be a "good neighbor."

But what makes a good neighbor?

In layman's terms, "Good neighbors are helpful, not shy about contact, responsive at all times when you need them. But good neighbors are by no means intrusive. Nothing against joint ventures, but personal space is maintained." Response from gri1su (2007) at https://www.gutefrage.net/frage/was-macht-gute-nachbarn-aus. And largely identical from science: "Good neighborhood is actually one that is open, in which one respects that there is more or less proximity. That you accept your neighbors' needs without submitting to them," explains social psychologist Volker Linneweber of Saarland University." (https://www.planet-wissen.de/gesellschaft/wohnen/nachbarschaft/index.html; this

source is cited by Google as a highlighted snippet).

According to this, good neighborliness is "The right mixture of closeness and distance" (op. cit.).

In the seminars of the module, these social qualities are to be analytically transferred to "landscape-architectural qualities", i.e. to technical, spatial and semiotic qualities and their "right mixture".

Theoretical foundations of such an extension of relations between social subjects to the object world are the actor-network theory or the theory of atmospheres.

If we assume, according to Tönnies, that neighborhood is a will of the human being that is controlled in emotion (and less based on a rationally founded free will), a "community of place" whose manifestation is the creation of cultural landscape (Tönnies F. (1887). Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft), then we are dealing here with sensuously perceptible and sensibly significant relations of proximity and distance (rationally sensible understandable relations between wind turbine and place, which must be determinative in planning, are then a different matter).

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LAREG Professur für Landschaftsarchitektur regionaler Freiräume S. 2 The wind turbine as neighbor

Seminar Mapping

With the method of mapping, sensually perceptible and meaningfully significant relations of proximity and distance in the neighborhood of humans and wind turbines are to be recorded. The relation of proximity and distance can for example be expressed in

§ sensuously perceived spatial distances, § temporal distances, § used orientations, § heard volumes, § seen phenomena, but also in § sensuously felt connections or worries, as well as in § manufactured situations, experiences and atmospheres, in which sensual perception and meaning are

connected.

This list is only first assumptions - it will be developed together in the seminar.

For this purpose, existing neighborhoods will be examined for positive and negative connections and an attempt will be made to represent the non-physically perceived in maps on the basis of physical-material spatial structures that support them. Specifically, people will be interviewed in open interviews, observations will be made, and source material will be researched and mapped.

Seminar Research through Design

- Description follows -

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Zeitplan

Freitags, in der Alten Bibliothek 2350

SE Mapping 13.00 - 14.30 Uhr SE RtD 14.30 - 16.00 12.11.21 Einführung Mapping

§ Auswahl der Untersuchungsorte: Teilnehmer:innen, die einen Windenergieanlagen-Standort näher kennen, stellen diesen kurz vor. Sie bilden mit jeweils zwei weiteren Teilnehmer:innen ein Team. Sind nicht ausreichend Standorte bekannt, werden die im näheren Umkreis von München liegenden Anlagen hinzugezogen.

§ Diskussion - „Nähe und Distanz I“

Einführung RtD § Research through Design in Architecture,

Landscape Architecture, Urbanism

19.11.21 je nach Wetter (ggf. Tausch mit Folgetermin) § Exkursion WEA Fröttmaning

26.11.21 Methoden § Mapping-Beispiele § Offene Gespräche und mental maps

Methoden § Gütekriterien qualitativer Forschung

3.12.21 Hausarbeit (kein Präsenztermin): § Erstellung einer Grundkarte für das

Mapping § Vor-Recherche: welche Quellen, welche

Orte in der Nachbarschaft

10.12.21 Kurzvorstellung § Vor-Recherche der Teams § Diskussion - „Nähe und Distanz II“

Methoden § Clusteranalyse

17.12.21 Hausarbeit (kein Präsenztermin): § Recherche (Presse, Blogs etc.), § Gespräche (mit Anwohner:innen,

Passant:innen oder Besucher:innen der WEA) mit gemeinsamer Erstellung von mental maps,

§ Beobachtungen (von Spaziergängen, Pausen, Besichtigungen, Abstechern etc.), Suchen von Spuren am Ort.

14.1.22 Zwischenpräsentation § Arbeitsstand Mappings § Diskussion - „Nähe und Distanz III“

21.1.22 Hausarbeit (kein Präsenztermin): § Kartenbearbeitung § Erstellung kurzer Erklärungstextbausteine

(als Kartelegende)

Hausarbeit (kein Präsenztermin): § Individuelle Clusteranalysen auf der

Grundlage der Zwischenpräsentationen

28.1.22 Präsentation und Abgabe Gemeinsame Clusteranalyse 4.2.22 Rückfragen

11.2.22 Abgabe Clusteranalysen