Who said it?
"Static media, because of the ability to spend as much time as necessary on every "frame" to decode and compare it, seem to allow for a deeper understanding of complex situations,"
Who is Joern Langhorst?
This all-enveloping, limitless quality of landscape surrounds us, engaging the body, imagination, and spirit.
What is space?
A photorealistic rendering of a park used in a competition board
What is a representation?
A new green corridor implemented in a large city
Who are city residents and wildlife?
A luxury condo's rooftop terrace gardens
Who is the developer?
"The ability to diagram existing conditions, deduct ongoing processes and so develop an understanding of the "existing" qualities and conditions is a critical basis to develop not just ideas about the direction of intended change, but also about the multiple participants and processes involved."
Who is Joern Langhorst?
Views, drawings or sketches meant to spark emotions, though they focus more on surface-level looks than deeper systems.
What is Representation?
a diagram of seasonal flooding patterns shaping where vegetation can grow
what is reality
A neighborhood public art project
Who are local residents (and maybe others, indirectly, depending on the subject material)?
A neighborhood space where residents have created informal seating, gardens, and paths not in the original design
Who is the community?
"The place of technology within Modernity is central -- practically, mythically, and rhetorically. But only a superficial reading of cultural history would suggest that the mechanistic and inorganic aspects of technology have actually resulted in a lessened appeal of landscape."
Who is Denis Cosgrove? (Social Formation)
In Corner’s discussion of the landscape medium, these are an important form of representation, revealing relationships, forces and systems
What are diagrams?
A rendering used to sell a development
what is, representation
Example from Cosgrove: In Stalinist Russia, the prevailing architectural and landscape styles were in conflict with popular landscape art (more traditional, realist landscape depictions)
Who is the Russian government? (explain why and discuss)
A downtown Plaza where security regularly removes unhoused people
Who are property owners and city officials?
"Although (landscape architects) ultimately make places out of plants, earth, water, stone and light, they are caught at a peculiar distance from these same elements, working instead with a completely different medium, an intermediary and translatory medium that we call drawing. Creative access to the actual landscape is therefore remote and indirect, masked by a twodimensional screen."
Who is James Corner?
Flat drawings like maps, sections or elevations that that are to scale and reflect a space.
What is Projection?
A dirt path formed by people ignoring sidewalk
what is reality
I-70 Glenwood Canyon corridor
Who are tourists and the commercial transportation industry?
A city park with large event lawns instead of informal gathering spaces
Who are city officials (and the people who put on paid events)
"Landscape [...] is primarily a spatial experience: Landscape itself - built or wild - is spatial: "Spatially, it is all-enveloping and surrounds us, flooded with light and atmosphere. Irreducible, the landscape controls our experience extensively: it permeates our memories and consciousness, and enframes our daily lives.""
Who are Joern Langhorst and James Corner?
Clear symbols or signs that guide people through wayfinding or explain a place in a deeper way.
What is Notation?
A rendering that convinces a city to approve a project that reshapes the land
What is, representation that shapes reality
The damming of the colorado river
What is agriculture, cities (water supply), and energy producers?
Hanging Lake with a permit system limiting daily visitors
Who are conservationists and land managers?