The didactic landscape

IF 0.1 3区 艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE
Helena Chance, Megha Rajguru
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This special issue journal brings together, for the first time, articles that study the didactic landscape as an artefact from broad spatial perspectives with a particular emphasis on the nineteenth-century to the present. The collection originated with a group of design historians who have a common interest in exploring meaning in the design of institutional landscapes. The essays examine how the parks or gardens of institutions express and reinforce their function and agendas. By its very definition, an institution has power over the spaces it inhabits and expresses distinct messages to the users of those spaces—it is a didactic space. The six articles define and explore a typology of institutional gardens and designed landscapes, conceived and designed with agendas, explicit or implicit, to advise, educate or moralise. Scholarship on the designs of institutional spaces is chiefly centred on architecture and has overlooked the role of the garden or landscape in the functioning and experience of the institution. A spatial understanding of an institutional building has enabled a study of institutional power and politics. A study of the institutional garden and landscape expands this knowledge to include the role of nature and the outdoors in its design and uses. While the genealogy of institutional landscapes with their functional and metaphorical allusions to divine order and political power has been traced to antiquity, the institutional landscape, a didactic space, which became more visible and diverse with the growth of social and political institutions such as museums, asylums and factories in the nineteenth century, has not so far been examined comparatively and culturally. These essays contribute to the scholarly literature investigating meaning in landscape and garden design which has proliferated since the 1980s, stimulated by a body of work within cultural and historical geography, landscape archaeology and history. The collection also responds to more recent research from a variety of disciplines, which has extended knowledge of nonelite gardens as ‘sites of cultural contact’. Within this scholarship of multiple perspectives, debates about the relationships between landscape, power and politics loom large, for as Gailing and Leibenath have recently argued, citing Kenneth Olwig, a landscape does not just express a polity’s values, conventions, customs and practices, but above all it is an expression of hegemonic power. Readers of these essays will be very familiar with examples of those in power using landscape design to impose their authority—from the processional routes of antiquity to Louis XIV’s gardens at Versailles, to General Motors' corporate landscape in Detroit. These heroic didactic landscapes are outspoken in communicating their power. To understand the more nuanced layers of meaning contained within the institutional gardens and parks discussed in this special issue, the authors have found not only Michel Foucault’s work on institutional power helpful, but also his theory of gardens as ‘heterotopias’. Foucault’s ideas on heterotopia, discussed in a lecture in 1967 and finally published in 1984 shortly after his death, have been enthusiastically embraced by scholars interested in the contradictions inherent in the spaces of institutions. However, his notion of a garden as ‘a sort of happy universalising heterotopia since the beginnings of antiquity’ has been less explored. Two of the essays presented here have linked the idea of didactic to Foucault’s idea of the garden as a heterotopia, to understand our underlying and time-honoured responses to the particular ways that design, objects and planting ‘superimpose meanings’. Marc Trieb in his essay ‘Must Landscapes Mean’ (1995) identifies five ‘roughly framed’ approaches to landscape design, meaning and significance
说教式景观
这本特刊首次汇集了从广泛的空间角度研究作为人工制品的教学景观的文章,特别强调了从19世纪到现在。该系列起源于一群设计历史学家,他们对探索机构景观设计的意义有着共同的兴趣。这些文章考察了机构的公园或花园是如何表达和强化其功能和议程的。根据其定义,一个机构对其居住的空间拥有权力,并向这些空间的用户表达不同的信息——这是一个说教的空间。这六篇文章定义并探索了机构花园和设计景观的类型,这些景观的构思和设计有明确或隐含的议程,以提供建议、教育或道德说教。关于机构空间设计的学术主要集中在建筑上,忽视了花园或景观在机构运作和体验中的作用。对制度建设的空间理解使人们能够研究制度权力和政治。对机构花园和景观的研究扩展了这一知识,包括自然和户外在其设计和使用中的作用。虽然制度景观的谱系及其对神圣秩序和政治权力的功能和隐喻暗示可以追溯到古代,但制度景观作为一个说教空间,随着19世纪博物馆、收容所和工厂等社会和政治机构的发展,变得更加明显和多样,迄今为止,尚未对其进行比较和文化研究。这些文章有助于研究景观和花园设计意义的学术文献,自20世纪80年代以来,在文化和历史地理学、景观考古和历史领域的大量工作的推动下,这一文献激增。该系列还回应了来自多个学科的最新研究,这些研究扩展了非精英花园作为“文化接触场所”的知识。在这种多元视角的学术中,关于景观、权力和政治之间关系的争论显得尤为突出,因为正如盖林和莱贝纳特最近引用肯尼斯·奥尔维格的话所说,景观不仅表达了一个政体的价值观、惯例、习俗和实践,而且最重要的是,它是霸权的表达。这些文章的读者将非常熟悉当权者利用景观设计来施加权威的例子——从古代的游行路线到路易十四在凡尔赛的花园,再到通用汽车在底特律的企业景观。这些英雄式的说教风景在传达他们的力量时直言不讳。为了理解本期特刊中讨论的机构花园和公园中包含的更微妙的意义层,作者发现米歇尔·福柯关于机构权力的工作不仅很有帮助,而且他将花园视为“异托皮亚”的理论也很有帮助。福柯关于异托邦的思想在1967年的一次演讲中进行了讨论,并最终在他去世后不久于1984年发表,受到了对制度空间内在矛盾感兴趣的学者的热烈欢迎。然而,他将花园视为“自古以来一种快乐的、普遍化的异托邦”的概念却很少被探索。本文中的两篇文章将说教的思想与福柯将花园视为异托邦的思想联系起来,以理解我们对设计、物体和种植“叠加意义”的特殊方式的潜在和由来已久的反应。马克·特里布(Marc Trieb)在1995年的文章《景观必须有意义》(Must Landscapes Mean)中指出了五种“粗略框架”的景观设计方法、意义和意义
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期刊介绍: Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes addresses itself to readers with a serious interest in the subject, and is now established as the main place in which to publish scholarly work on all aspects of garden history. The journal"s main emphasis is on detailed and documentary analysis of specific sites in all parts of the world, with focus on both design and reception. The journal is also specifically interested in garden and landscape history as part of wider contexts such as social and cultural history and geography, aesthetics, technology, (most obviously horticulture), presentation and conservation.
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