Landscape Fieldwork
How Engaging the World Can Change Design
1st Edition
Published on 25. April 2025
352 pages
978-0-8139-5264-2 (ISBN)
Description
Refocusing on human inhabitants in landscape architecture
Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the most pressing issues of our time, such as climate change and social inequality. Its current reliance on digital and technological solutions, however, has increasingly caused landscape architects to lose sight of the ways in which humans actually use spaces. And while landscapes are designed all over the world, the discipline remains inordinately centered on the Global North. Landscape Fieldwork alters that long-standing paradigm through real-life examples that provide tools for practitioners to engage more deeply with multidimensional, diverse landscapes and the communities that create, live in, and use them.
Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the most pressing issues of our time, such as climate change and social inequality. Its current reliance on digital and technological solutions, however, has increasingly caused landscape architects to lose sight of the ways in which humans actually use spaces. And while landscapes are designed all over the world, the discipline remains inordinately centered on the Global North. Landscape Fieldwork alters that long-standing paradigm through real-life examples that provide tools for practitioners to engage more deeply with multidimensional, diverse landscapes and the communities that create, live in, and use them.
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Gareth Doherty is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of African and African American Studies. He is the author of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The I Is a Door: A Note on Use of the First Person
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Prologue: Border Crossings
- Introduction: A Landscape of Fieldwork
- 1. Designing at Home: Building a Diamond in the Irish Northwest
- 2. Throwing Beans: Operational Fields and the Prototypical Landscape
- 3. Walking and Talking: Chromatic Metaphors in the Bahraini Landscape
- 4. Engaging Collectively: Collaborative Fieldwork in The Bahamas
- 5. Gathering Leaves: Urban Ecologies of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Groves
- 6. Thick Prescription: A Framework for Landscape Fieldwork
- Glossary
- List of Named Participants
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
