{"title":"The aesthetic dimension of productive green community spaces","authors":"T. Alon-Mozes, Avigail Heller","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195244","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Productive green community spaces are currently the subject of extensive academic discussion. Scholars from diverse fields explore this phenomenon from social, economic, political and planning perspectives. Yet, the aesthetic dimension of such sites has remained outside the academic purview, while giving rise to public debate and critique. This paper addresses the lacuna by examining productive green community spaces in Israel to contribute to the contemporary discourse on aesthetics and community gardens. Three theoretical frameworks for aesthetics serve as the basis of our investigation: the intrinsic value of nature, experience beyond the visual towards the ethical and cues of care. Our analysis regards fourteen productive green community spaces, established in 2017 and 2018, that seem messy and unordered at first sight. We identified six constituents to establish the aesthetic merits of the gardens: expressions of social and cultural characteristics, cues of care through organization of space, presence of nonhuman lives, embodied experience, change over time (dynamics) and ethical expressions.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"179 1","pages":"58 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77489750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Palimpsest Plan: A critical investigation of the French Métropole jardin","authors":"D. Delbaere, Frédéric Pousin","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2156102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2156102","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article aims to examine the effects of large-scale planning projects. It focuses on the little-known Métropole jardin project, which was developed in the western centre of France in the late 1960s and 1970s. This was a period in regional planning history that welcomed landscape architecture, in which new actors entered the scene and new methods and tools were created to involve communities in the development of landscapes. The project is methodologically analysed on the basis of field visits to examine its achievements and the influence it may have had on the development of the territory as it appears today. The contrasting results are indicative of the particularities of French-style spatial planning, characterized by the gap that exists today between the effectiveness of major territorial guidelines and the fragmentation of real productions, which requires the analysis to be interpreted in various ways.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"195 1","pages":"44 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78988765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An encounter with stone. Designing with the aesthetic force of post-mining landscapes.","authors":"S. Rosier","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2156098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2156098","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Quarries are inherently complex situations that offer a unique and timely challenge to contemporary landscape architects. Their technical and operational nature tends to lead to an equally technical response by designers at the expense of engaging with the ethico-aesthetic potential of these confronting landscapes. Several designers and thinkers are responding to this problem through theorizing a revival of aesthetics that focuses on determining why certain landscape encounters occur, in order to use this as the basis from which to design. While attention has been given to theorizing the role of aesthetics in a contemporary design setting, less so has been directed to the practices and techniques suited to designing with these forces or doings. This paper uses the Horokiwi Quarry in New Zealand as an example to explore how the aesthetic forces can be understood as emerging from concrete spatiotemporal relations between the body and landscape. In doing so, it argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the specific, not generic, causes of aesthetic encounters so that stronger, more sustainable relations with nonhuman entities can be developed.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"1 1","pages":"16 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85830934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Grounds for Dutch Landscape","authors":"J. K. Larsen","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2156106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2156106","url":null,"abstract":"Journal of Landscape Architecture / 2-2022 How often are we offered a novel look at seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting? And how often does art criticism take mud, clay, silt, sand, water, marshland, dirt and mire as its subject, insisting not only on acknowledging the presence of these base materials, but also their performative and constitutive agency on the art in question? Lytle Shaw’s book New Grounds for Dutch Landscape offers a critical reading of the Dutch Golden Age school of painting, with an exclusive focus on Jan van Goyen, Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema, a trio that ‘seems marginal in many histories of landscape aesthetics, and art more generally’ (p. 203). The book is, however, more than a reading of a set of Dutch landscape painters. It discusses the failure of the diagrammatical pastoral space to engage with embodied landscape practices, and with the existential experience of filtered light, failing grounds and wet feet. Even more radically, however, it contrasts ideas of beauty, perspective and atmosphere with the prominence of what Shaw calls ‘incalcitrant matter’_matter that does not stay in place, that invades, flows, combines and becomes mud. Puddles hold a prominent place: ‘They are points when paths break down, when the water that the Dutch have been trying to hold back has entered at a mundane, low key level’ (p. 48). Thereby, these three painters seem more manifestly than any other to read the Dutch national ground. Shaw’s claim is that these painters do not as much represent the landscape, but re-enact it. In so doing they focus attention on the material state of the landscape, one that is particularly acute in a seventeenth-century Holland where landscape is incessantly being made, unmade and remade by hydroengineering on the one hand and entropic forces on the other: drainage problems, flooding, abrasion and erosion of the ground plane. The ur-scene of the Dutch experiment is not only of raising land from the sea, but the existential significance of producing one’s own ground (p. 93), a struggle presented in Ruisdael’s many paintings of broken dikes, torrents of water and pumping stations. Jan van Goyen’s View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmermeer (1646) may serve as the best example of how cities in this specific mud-centred trio seem to barely have made it out of the murky waters. Humans, cattle and ramshackle abodes seems to only just, or maybe not, be resting on dry ground. Lytle Shaw’s readings show how these specific Golden Age painters are not about looking at the landscape, but at what it is made of and the practices that make them_either by literally constructing them by way of engineering or by enacting them as wanderer, herder or ‘doing’ landscape in other ways. Shaw unlearns our computed tendencies to read ‘view’ and ‘pastoral’ in any landscape scenery. In fact, this shift in focus is literally performed in the paintings themselves, he claims, in an act of overlooking what in more traditional ","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"23 1","pages":"93 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81189242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leave Catalytic Traces: Land-based infrastructures for environmental mitigation at Fly Ranch, Nevada, USA","authors":"Jessica Rossi-Mastracci","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2156100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2156100","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article focuses on Leave Catalytic Traces, a design entry for the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) Fly Ranch 2020 Design Competition, located in Fly Ranch, Nevada, USA. Co-hosted by LAGI, an organization that develops artistic renewable energy infrastructure, and the Burning Man Project, which organizes the annual nine-day art festival Burning Man nearby, the programmatic requirements of the competition included the mitigation of the festival’s environmental impact, ecological restoration and a demonstration of renewable energy generation through infrastructural sculpture at Fly Ranch. In response, this research through design case study investigates: (1) Land-based Infrastructures (LBI) as resilient infrastructure and a flexible process-driven framework for site design; (2) a temporary event harnessing participatory processes as a generative strategy; and (3) acupunctural land-based interventions as dynamic ‘sculptures’. The article argues that the work proposes a new design and research process that combines speculative futures and projective imaginaries, which are tested through the development of a process-driven design approach by deploying sitespecific land-based interventions.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"64 1","pages":"30 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73435789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mise-en-Scène: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes","authors":"K. Shannon","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2156108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2156108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"83 1","pages":"96 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77136344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drawing during lockdown: Observing the ‘unquantifiable, but speculatively knowable’ dimensions of residential landscapes","authors":"Nicole Porter","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2156103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2156103","url":null,"abstract":"Goethe used the term ‘delicate empiricism’ to describe a disciplined process of prolonged empathetic observation, grounded in direct experience, using imagination, inspiration and intuition to encounter phenomena.1 Observational drawing, as an epistemological tool, can facilitate this kind of encounter. As design and drawing practitioner Laurie Olin asserts, drawing enables us to carefully observe ‘unquantifiable, but speculatively knowable, things: the nature of various places, the quality of light at different times, the manner of other people (or ourselves) . . . We learn through seeing, thinking about what we see, studying, and recording it in various ways by drawing.’2 In recent years there has been ‘a modest resurgence of interest within academia in the methodological affordance of observational sketching’,3 mostly in social sciences, anthropological fieldwork, geography and design schools. While drawing is regarded as a means of generating and recording knowledge of place—its past, present and potential future state—artist Gemma Anderson laments that ‘the kind of meditative space needed’ to concentrate purely on observational drawing as a professional scholarly practice ‘is increasingly constrained’.4 This project set out to reclaim observational drawing as a method to capture the ‘unquantifiable’ but ‘knowable’ dimensions of everyday residential landscapes during lockdown.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"66 1","pages":"60 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73242508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homing bodies","authors":"S. Mathew, Stewart Copeland","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2156097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2156097","url":null,"abstract":"How do our bodies recognize invisible changes in the environment","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"52 1","pages":"6 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85402784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fictional soils of a ‘sustainable’ Anthropocene: A new materialist story of the soils of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park","authors":"Eric Guibert, Alec Tostevin","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2156104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2156104","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London has been celebrated as an exemplar of sustainable landscape architecture and regeneration. Yet tracing the new materialist histories of its enmeshed soils reveals how complex sustainable landscape architecture is. On the one hand, the park has expertly recycled and locally sourced its materials. On the other, the socio-ecosystems of its soil assemblages have been pulverized, treated and mixed to create a new profile of synthetic geological strata. Their history and life have been erased. The subterranean sections through this park are caricatures of a ‘sustainable Anthropocene’. Here, the anthropogenic geology supporting the vision of idealized future ecosystems is used for the global marketing of a nation and property developments. This project indicates a destructive systemic blindness in sustainable approaches and the need for truly regenerative design processes, based on working with a place, including the various (other-than) human inhabitants, instead of solely mining its materials to create a perfect vision anew.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"124 1","pages":"76 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80084035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}