The TELOS project brings five European metropolitan areas together to address this spatial and educational challenge in a new way: we link Rome, Stuttgart, Brussels, Gdansk and Antalya.
TELOS contributes to a large-scale transnational educational transformation and empowers a new generation of visionary professionals, decision-makers and urbanites, to address sustainability challenges through problem-solving approaches that integrate systems thinking, anticipatory strategic competences, real life scenarios and insights, and interpersonal skills.
TELOS aims to build ‘knowledge and action bridges’ between the seemingly competing systems of ecology and economy, as they appear in our everyday urban environment. The target groups of the TELOS project are primarily university staff and students from the following subject domains: urban planning, landscape planning, architecture and landscape architecture, agriculture, regional development, economics, business administration and real estate.
Related stakeholder groups are equitable finance players, real estate developers and related industries, NGOs, municipalities, and the wider public, aiming to break down barriers and foster collaboration while encouraging knowledge exchange at all levels.
TELOS Project Objectives
To develop the first Landscape Economy curriculum by which learners can deeply immerse in the theories, dialectics and methodologies associated with these emerging concepts
To build capacity among university teachers, enabling them to successfully implement interdisciplinary and transformative learning settings
To build up key competences for sustainable urban development
To create and share knowledge, by documenting TELOS methodology as an open educational resource
To disseminate the TELOS curriculum and methodology as widely as possible.
TELOS Activities
Our project includes the following main activities:
- Development of the TELOS curriculum (design, testing, evaluation, exploitation and dissemination)
- Conceptualization and implementation of two TELOS staff training events.
- Piloting the TELOS curriculum by means of two blended learning events.
Our blended learning events consist of the TELOS online course, local labs, and the TELOS charrette.
TELOS Handbook on Landscape Economy
This book presents our approach to integrating a landscape economy dimension into higher education.
It is addressed in particular to teachers motivated to develop knowledge and competences for sustainable development and socio-economic transformation. Landscape economy is not restricted to any specific discipline. We all live and work in and with landscapes, and we do that through an economic system. However, we think that this book is of particular interest for educators in the fields of spatial planning, urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, economics, business administration, real estate, mobility, agriculture, geography, and regional development.
