英文摘要 |
My article initiates a dialogue for nurturing ”landscape generalists” at a global university in the 21st century. I hope this article sets off the dialogue for the landscape generalist imagination in the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, in response to Professor Wang's life long commitment to developing the education of professional generalists in the field of environmental planning and design.The imagination of the landscape generalist education merges from our vision of beholding land and sky: the blue sky and green land merges from the horizon in the dawn of the 21st century. Blue sky symbolizes the transnational sky above us in the era of globalization; green land represents the ecological earth underneath our feet that has been threatened by the global warming phenomenon for more than a decade. As a landscape educator, I suggest that we evolve our design curriculum and pedagogical research according to the transnational blue sky and ecological green land.Based on the dual blue-green imagination, my article elaborates on how the international trend in higher education of moving into global universities, opens up new opportunities for the Building and Planning Graduate Institute to develop the Glocal Sustainable Landscape curriculum for educating landscape generalists. I propose the Glocal Sustainable Landscape curriculum as an alternative experiment for the Institute. My hope is that students will encounter a bigger world and redefine their blue sky and green land in their own terms. |