Teaching activities

Territorial “ménagement” aims to reconcile human uses, biodiversity, landscapes and ecosystem balances, by integrating the preservation of natural resources and living beings into the design of inhabited spaces.

Within the Master’s program in Urban Planning and Territorial Development in Charleroi, this approach is explored through a series of courses that examine the levers for more sustainable, ecological, and equitable development. The courses address ecological networks and nature-based solutions, landscape elements and public spaces, as well as the challenges of land conservation and new planning strategies. Students are encouraged to develop a critical analysis of planning policies and to grasp the concepts of integrating biodiversity and mobilization of local, material and social resources (stakeholders and planning tools)  through programming workshops, theoretical courses, an internship, and a final thesis grounded in concrete territorial issues.

Within the Master’s program in Architecture at Mons, this approach is extended through the study of landscape as a vector for understanding and design. Courses in landscape history, advanced landscape analysis, and the Architectures – Territories – Strategies – Landscape workshop allow students to experiment with design approaches that integrate the ecological, social, and sensory dimensions of the territory. Landscape thus becomes a tool for interpretation and composition, serving an architecture capable of engaging with territorial dynamics and the living forms that permeate it.

Thus, all of these courses offer a transdisciplinary education, attentive to the complexity of contemporary territories and to the need to invent project practices that respect living things, by combining architectural and urban composition, ecological responsibility and collective imagination.