Computing with nature: Digital design methodologies across scales

The rapid development in the area of digitalisation, as well as the increasing necessity to deal with the effects of climate change, has had a fundamental impact on the field of landscape architecture. We currently stand at the threshold of developing entirely new didactical and pedagogical concepts for teaching in the area of computational design thinking. These concepts go well beyond mainstream, application-oriented topics such as GIS, CAD, BIM/LIM and the mere teaching of tools and software. Recognising the potentials for teaching and research specific to the demands of landscape architecture at the intersection of architecture, computer science and biology, requires fundamental rethinking and openness for a new area of knowledge, connecting the fields of robotics, AI, Big Data, human-machine interaction extended reality and design, to the notion of the place and its innate natural intelligence (NI) and meaning in a global context.