| The
European Landscape Educational Exchange Partnership
In the past The Eur-Am Center has worked with the
European Landscape Education Exchange (ELEE) consortium
and its director, Dr. Roger Seijo of the University
of Greenwich, the Eur-Am Center made its historic grounds
and gardens into an outdoor learning and living laboratory
for design, preservation and horticulture. ELEE short
programs were held at the Eur-Am Center in August and
November 2001. The Eur-Am Center’s landscape grounds
and gardens provided the starting point and a context
for a long-term project in design, preservation, community
outreach, and landscape master planning.
- Internship
positions are available for individuals interested
in Landscape Architecture. Please send e-mails to
janne@euramcenter.com
for more information.
- The
manner and the means by which the Eur-Am Center’s
historic and majestic landscape may be cared for
and resurrected are embodied in the idea of the
Living Laboratory. It connects the academic,
social, and cultural life of the Abbey to its landscape,
and vice versa. The landscape context is the resource:
the subject; and the product of study, research,
creativity, enterprise, exchange, and collaboration.
- At
the heart of the Living Laboratory is the Project
Office — this is the generator and the
facilitator of the master plan and management plan
for the Eur-Am Center’s landscape. It does
not sit alongside its related academic programs;
it is at the center of them. Visiting students and
teachers become a part of the project and work within
it. The project office enables effective connections
between the academic studies and researches; the
cultural program; the local region and community;
and the ongoing work, projects, and issues on the
ground. By these means, the care and stewardship
of the landscape falls within the realm of the academic
program.
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