This working group focuses specifically on the factors influencing and approaches to the structuring, organisation, and detailed treatment of outdoor spaces of all kinds. The spatial design of parks, gardens, urban spaces as well as the external spaces associated with all building types and functions, ranging from schools to office blocks, from museums to housing schemes. Concern is with both the approach to the design process as well as with a critical consideration of its products. Manipulation of space and the selection and use of materials all play an important role.

- Principles of design
- Design methods
- Design process
- Aesthetic theory
- Typology of landscape design projects
- Landscape design criticism
- Analysis and appreciation of landscape design projects
- Functions of landscape design projects
- User groups and their specific needs
- Project use studies and project evaluation
- Design and materials
- Project presentation techniques
- Spatial organisation and analysis