Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Eric A. Bernard / The profession of landscape architecture is involved in understanding, designing and, or,
implementing relationships between social and natural systems within a spatial-temporal context
as defined in discipline literature and the 2005 Landscape Architecture Body of Knowledge
(LABOK) study. The LABOK outlines core competencies of the profession and fundamental
body of knowledge expected from graduates of Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board
(LAAB) accredited degree programs.
Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is a emerging field aimed at spatial
temporal problem solving and has been defined as, “a multi disciplinary research enterprise that
addresses the nature of geographic information and the application of geospatial technologies to
a basic scientific question” (DiBiase, 5, 2006; Goodchild, 1992). The Geographic Information
Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (GIS&TBOK) (DiBiase, 121, 2007) outlines
educational objectives for the emerging field of GIScience and serves as the resource for course
and curriculum planning for academic and professional programs.
This study investigated where intersections exist between the spatial temporal problem
solving discipline of landscape architecture and emerging field of GIScience based on the
respective Body of Knowledge studies. The three phased study: 1) determined overlapping
relationships between the LABOK and GIS&T BOK, 2) analyzed overlaps for their ability to
help first professional degree landscape architecture programs achieve LAAB curriculum
accreditation, and 3) employed a case study method to illustrate how overlaps between the
LABOK and GIS&T BOK and relevant to LAAB curriculum accreditation requirements
influence curricula development at Kansas Sate University.
The study established 887 relationships between the two respective Bodies of
Knowledge, of which, 717 were found capable of helping achieve LAAB curriculum
accreditation. The study presents key areas of intersection and overlap between LABOK and
GIS&T, and provides a framework for integration of GIS&T educational objectives within first
professional landscape architecture degree curriculums, in a manner to achieve LAAB
curriculum accreditation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:KSU/oai:krex.k-state.edu:2097/1078 |
| Date | January 1900 |
| Creators | Kersey, David Nathaniel |
| Publisher | Kansas State University |
| Source Sets | K-State Research Exchange |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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