In this exercise, in order to study and understand the form of Persian miniature and to employ its creative elements in their own designs, the students segmented and extracted the components of a Persian miniature painting.

​Exploring Details of Persian Miniature Exercise​​​​​​​  

This project was built around a challenging question and the use of an Iranian cultural-artistic medium. The challenging question was: how can students transform the gate of the National Garden (Sar-e Dar-e Bagh-e Melli), one of Tehran's key tourist attractions dating back to the Qajar era, and redesign the landscape facing it? The cultural medium was the use of capacities related to the art of Persian miniature (Negargari). Persian miniatures offer us diverse patterns of formal and spatial design from centuries past, which, through proper reinterpretation, can be applied in the landscape design process. This project sought to challenge students' mental stereotypes about keeping an extreme distance from historical buildings and refraining from any intervention in them, and to teach them that they can redesign a historical landscape by drawing on a traditional art form.

Let's Attack the Bagh Melli Entrance!

Landscape Design Studios

In the landscape design studio, we addressed the question of how students could create an installation art piece based on a garden-making style (such as the French garden, the English garden, etc.) in order to become familiar with different garden design traditions. Alongside this introduction to garden-making styles, the studio also pursued an approach related to the issue of women's fears. As a result, in the early stages, students expressed their fears about a garden through collective sessions. In this context, they represented their fears by drawing multi-stage sketches. In the next stage, in order to become familiar with the greatest garden of all — namely, the planet Earth — they were asked to find large-scale patterns on the Earth's surface using Google Earth and to draw them with a degree of abstraction in the form of artistic works. In the final stage, students presented their findings in the form of group works involving the creation of an installation art piece with the theme of the garden.​​​​​​​

A Woman in a Garden!

Landscape Design Studios

Final Design: Let's Attack!

Drawing the Earth's patterns (the world's largest garden)​​​​​​​

Final Design: Making an Installation Art

In the end, the students presented their installation artworks in an exhibition format. They tried to create a stronger sense of the work by performing dramatic movements alongside their creations.​​​​​​​

How a Garden Can Scare a Woman?