Special Issue: The Landscapists: Redefining Landscape Relations
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 26311
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Wiley
- ISBN
- 978-1119540038
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Landscapists special issue of Architectural Design journal
argues that landscapes are made and remade through interrelations between people and the worlds around them; from geographers investigating the lives of urban wastelands to landscape architects projecting projecting future cities, and from migrants navigating border systems to artists working with local residents. In contrast to tendencies to emphasise the physical forms of landscapes, with their potential to be redesigned and represented in drawings, this issue brings to the forefront the social constructedness of landscapes by focusing on a range of critical practices and daily actions. As conventional frames of landscape are challenged, other ways of measuring, mapping, imagining, designing, building and occupying them are revealed. For centuries, artists and designers have represented landscapes of power in paintings and have transformed them through their design proposals. But in recent years a number of researchers, designers, artists and activists have explored an expanded field of landscape, investigating populations fleeing conflict zones, reimagining cities facing ecological challenges, questioning territorial claims, and critiquing processes of urbanisation. This issue focuses on individuals whose work and lives encompass a diverse range of landscape practices. The research contribution of Wall was, firstly, in framing the research questions that advance landscape knowledge (in particular the social dimensions) within architectural design. These questions are set out in the introductory article written by the editor. Secondly, the editor brings together an international interdisciplinary group of leading artists, designers, architects, landscape architects, and social scientists to frame a new discourse around landscape. Involving researchers and practitioners across diverse disciplines, institutions and continents the discourse has achieved a strong intellectual coherence. One of these articles was also authored by the editor. Thirdly, the editor worked with the authors in the development of their articles, from conception to publication, providing editorial support and critique.
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- Non-English
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