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Specific processes – in design that researches and research that designs – in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture were focused during this international symposium, which was held for the 8th time in the framework of the research field ‘DARA. Design and Research in Architecture and Landscape’.

Which different kind of processes and process characteristics shape the dynamics of design and research against the background of various bodies of knowledge and different influences which are not always fully tangible? How do systematizing operations and creative acts intermingle? Which kind of design options and which kind of scientific possibilities and artefacts come to the fore? How are specific forms of knowledge and their interactions being generated, evaluated and transformed, and in which ways can they be understood and communicated as examples for the relevance of high quality design of the human living environment?

Four international peers – Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete (TU Delft), Prof. Katja Benfer (LUH), Prof. Dr. Ole W. Fischer (Univ. of Salt Lake City, Utah), Prof. Dr. Georg Vrachliotis (KIT Karlsruhe) – as well as Prof. Dr. Margitta Buchert introductorily reflected on the symposium’s topic and discussed the research projects of the junior scientists as part of a peer review. This was complemented by invited, internationally-oriented designers and theoreticians, presenting their own individual research approaches and by thematically concentrated discussions. This way the symposium was able to contribute to a differentiated viewpoint of ‘processes’ as part of design-related research and important part of reflexive design in architecture and landscape architecture.