Drawing Landscape Pedagogies: New Practices of Incomplete and Collective Mapping
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- MCO-UOA32-EW2
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A multicomponent output
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2019
- URL
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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
- Landscapes are accepted as processes of human and non-human relations. But traditions of designing landscapes have relied on static architectural drawings, such as plans, sections, and masterplans, that are inadequate to communicate temporal, open-ended processes and relationships. This research is focused on developing new techniques of mapping and designing landscapes through innovative teaching practice, specifically: incomplete cartographies, base drawings, operational drawings, and scenes. It questions how traditions of designing landscapes can be transformed to represent and work with relational landscapes that are always on process. The drawing techniques developed from the research have established an innovative body of knowledge around landscape drawing. They further the field of landscape design education and have informed the professional field of landscape architecture internationally. The author has developed rigour in the research, initially through successive teaching workshops, and then testing the results through exhibitions, presentations, and publications. The public exhibitions have demonstrated the coherence of the approach; the open international talks and conference presentations have explained and validated the techniques; and the published articles have explained the methods, findings, and conclusions. Furthermore, dissemination across a wide disciplinary range, from architectural design to urban geography and from academic conferences to built environment professions, strengthens the intellectual coherence of the research. The research sets a new agenda for designing landscapes, one that enhances the ability of designers to work with collective and open-ended processes of landscapes. Through challenging traditions of designing landscapes as top-down singular endeavours the research furthers the field of landscape drawing. The development of these techniques through teaching practice has influenced a younger generation of professional landscape architects. The dissemination of the results in the 2018 exhibition, curated for the Landscape Institute Conference and IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) Europe Congress has influenced the direction of professional landscape architecture.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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