General schedule

Detailed schedule

Case studies and landscape research groups

 

General schedule

 

University of Eastern Finland from Sunday 1st May to Saturday 14th May 2011
  

	University of Eastern Finland (1st week)
Sunday 1st May	Welcome to Joensuu, arrival at 17:15
Monday 2nd May	Different ways to define and use the concept of Landscape
Tuesday 3rd May	The North Karelian landscape
Wednesday 4th May	Field work excursion (I): National landscape and water landscape - Koli
Thursday 5th May	Field work excursion (II): Forest and mire landscape - Ilomantsi
Friday 6th May	Field work excursion (III): Dwelled landscape - Polvijärvi
Saturday 7th May	Free time
Sunday 8th May	Free Time
	University of Eastern Finland (2nd week)
Monday 9th May	Research Group work
Tuesday 10th May	Research Group work
Wednesday 11th May	Research Group work
Thursday 12th May	Research Group work
Friday 13th May	Research Group presentations and discussion
Saturday 14 th May	Departure at 8:50

 

Detailed schedule

 

Sunday 1st May

- Welcome to Joensuu, arrival at 17.15

 
Monday 2nd May 

Time	Place	Subject
9.30	Pipetti-restaurant	Morning coffee
10.00	F101	Welcome to the University of Eastern Finland	Rector Perttu Vartiainen
		Welcome to the department of geographical and historical studies	Head of department Alfred Colpaert
		Opening the course	Josep Vila/Minna Tanskanen
Different ways to define and use the concept of landscape
10.30-11.15	F101	Landscape ecology. An approach from geography	Josep Vila
11.15-12.00	F101	The changes of landscape in Poloniny National Park	Lenka Cermakova Anton Fogas
	Pipetti-restaurant	Lunch
13.00-13.45	F101	The cultivated mire landscape as a mirror of Finnish society	Minna Tanskanen
13.45-14.30	F101	European Landscape Policies based on the European Landscape Convention. Case studies: Spain, Germany and Slovakia	Stephanie Wilbrand
		Coffee break
15.00-16.30	F101	Workshops based on the further readings and the lectures	Bibliography
		Joensuu by walk	Minna Tanskanen and the Finnish students

 

 Tuesday 3rd May
 

Time	Place	Subject
The Finnish landscape
9.15-10.00	F101	Gis-based landscape data in Finland	Ari Lehtinen
10.00-10.45	F101	Introduction to Ecosystem Services - basic concepts and definitions, assessment, modeling	Heli Mikkonen
10.45-11.30	F101	Landscaping Finland	Timo Kumpula
	Pipetti-restaurant	Lunch
The North Karelian landscape
13.00-13.45	F101	Geomorphology of North Karelia	Heikki Vesajoki
13.45-14.30	F101	Traditional rural landscapes	Hanna Keski-Karhu
		Coffee break
15.00-	F101	An introduction to the study themes Orientation in research groups	Minna Tanskanen

Wednesday 4th May 

- Excursion I - National landscape and water landscape <Joensuu-Koli-Joensuu>
 
Thursday 5th May 

- Excursion II – Forest and mire landscape <Joensuu-Heinävaara-Ilomantsi-Mekrijärvi-Hattuvaara-Suomu/Patvinsuo-Uimaharju-Joensuu>

Friday 6th May 

- Excursion III – Dwelled landscape <Joensuu-Kunnasniemi-Huhmari-Kuorevaara-Polvijärvi-Kinahmo-Ruvaslahti-Martonvaara-Ahmovaara-Kontiolahti-Joensuu>

Monday 9th May

- Working in groups

Tuesday 10th May

- Working in groups

Wednesday 11th May

- Working in groups

Thursday 12th May

- Working in groups

Friday 13th May

- Final seminar at 10.15 in F101

- Final dinner at 19.00

Saturday 14th May

- Departure at 8.50

- See you in Presov, in May 2012!

 

Case studies and landscape research groups

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1. Koli – A national Carelian landscape (Iida Pirinen)

Koli is a national park in North Carelia, Eastern Finland. Koli is famous from its beautiful landscape. At top of the highest cliffs opens a wide scenery filled with lakes and forests. This landscape is classified to be one of the Finnish national landscapes. Koli has also a particularly powerful symbolic value. Its Carelian landscape is romanticized and thought to be at the heart of the ”Finnishness”.

Our research is focused to examine the national landscape of the top of Koli. The main research interests are:

• What is the Carelian national landscape like?
• Why is the landscape at the top of Koli classified as a national landscape?
• What kind of history lies behind the development of Koli from scenery into valued national landscape?

2. Urban landscape – Joensuu (Sebastian González López)

In this study we are going to analyse the urban landscape and the planning of it in the central area of Joensuu city. How it has developed and how well the old landscape has been preserved. For this study we are going to use the city's planning schematics for the central area, old photos and the photos taken by the group members.

3. Rural landscape in change (Veera Juusti)

The Finnish rural landscape has been trough big changes during the last decade, e.g. because of the agricultural mechanization. Many of the former vivid rural areas have shifted to municipalities and small villages that struggle for their existence. In our group work we could compare two rural villages, Sotkuma and Sola, which are situated in the municipality of Polvijärvi. Sotkuma has managed to retain its livelihood, whereas Sola is having problems in maintaining services and residents in the village. The objective of the study would be to analyze the reasons for the differences between the villages. Literature about the changes in Finnish rural areas could serve as a theoretical background. We could also search for statistics on the population and age stucture as well as on the service sector in the two villages. The empirical approach could be for example observations of the villages and some short interviews or questionnaires with the residents.

4. Landscape of Recreational Settlements (Maija Sikiö)

There is 314 000 kilometers of shoreline in Finland. This shoreline is divided into sea costs (15 %), lake shores (68 %) and river banks (17 %). Many of the free-time residences or summer cottages are situated in these shorelines. The summer cottage is like a second home and nowadays many of them turns into a permanent dwelling. By the end of the year 2009 there were 485 118 summer cottages in Finland. With a total population of 5.1 million, this means that every fourth household owns a cottage and even more have access to one, since cottages are increasingly used by extended families. According to Periäinen the most obvious motive for having a cottage is the desire to enjoy the short summer in the best possible environment: in the country, in the shade of the trees, by the lake. It involves nostalgia for former home regions and also Finnish sauna tradition is central part of the cottage experience.

The purpose of this research is to understand how the recreational settlements have developed in Finland and in North Karelia and how these settlements affect physical shoreline landscape. The settlements in shoreline areas have an influence on the physical landscape and the environment but also they play a role in mental landscape. What are the pulling forces of recreational settlement? What is important for summer cottage users? Why people spend time in summer cottages and why people want to go there? We will perform couple of interviews to get the idea of the pulling forces. In addition we will make observations about the settlement in shorelines during the excursions. We will also utilize the literature and research done around the subject.

5. Mining landscape (Tomi Härkönen)

During recent years, mining industry has risen strongly in Finland. One of the upcoming mines is located in North Karelia (Kylylahti mine). The research will concentrate to those physical changes in the Finnish landscape which are caused or will be caused by mining industry. One possible way to do that is study the lifespan of mines.

Material: literature, internet sources and excursions.

6. Finnish forestry as a changing force of forest landscape (Pasi Korpelainen)

Aim of this study is how the Finnish forestry has changed forest landscape. We need, for example, to recognize all actors in forestry (companies, private ownership etc.). Forest companies use lot’s of coniferous woods for making pulp and paper. Planting spruce instead of birch is more profitable also for forest owners. This will lead to situation where area of broadleaved forests is decreasing and the landscape is changing as well. We also want to know what kind of role forest policy has on landscape and how policy has changed over the years, for example subsidizing very dense forest road network.

Case study: In our case study we will study change of forest landscape in long period of time in Outokumpu
region. We could take one farm for smaller scale and one bigger forest area for larger scale study.

Data:

• Aerial photographs from Outokumpu region 1940s, 1970s and 2000
• Forest plans 1970–1980 / 2000–2010 / 2010–2020

7. Changes in the mire landscape (Teppo Tossavainen)

Bogs and mires are a remarkable part of Finnish landscape and one of the richest ecosystems in Finland. They consist of dead plant material that is transformed into acidic peat in an anaerobic system. Bogs and mires have covered up to one third of Finland’s landmasses and they are considered to be one of the most important sources of energy. Historically the Finnish mires have been utilized in various ways. Our aim is to focus our research on the changes of mire landscapes in North Karelia mostly during the 20th and 21st century. One part of our interest is researching the utilization of mires in different perspectives. Most important part of our study will focus on the different mire landscapes such as physical landscape and mental landscape. It will also be studied what might be the social reasons behind the changes in mire landscapes.

Research material: Excursions to mires, literature and internet sources.
 

Bibliography which workshop is based on

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• Antrop, M (2005) Why landscapes of the past are important for the future. Landscape and Urban Planning, 70, 21-34.
• Antrop, M (2006). Sustainable landscapes: contradiction, fiction or utopia? Landscape and Urban Planning, 75, 187 – 197.
• Benediktsson, K., 2007: “Scenophobia”, geography and the aesthetic politics of landscape. Geogr. Ann., 89 B (3): 203–217.
• Olwig, Kenneth R. (2005). Representation and alienation in the political land-scape. Cultural geographies, 12:19-40.
• Olwig, Kenneth R. (2007). The practice of landscape 'Conventions' and the just landscape: The case of the European landscape convention, Landscape Research, 32: 5, 579 — 594
• Tanskanen, Minna (2010). The Cultivated Mires Landscape as a Mirror of Finnish Society. Landscapes, identities and development, 195 – 206.