Emanation of Urban Landscape _ exploring the Urban Landscape: How are new urban landscape spaces created?
As an intention. As a consequence.
Emergence in Landscape Architecture by Rod Barnett will be studied.
1. Open systems theory refers simply to the concept that organizations are strongly influenced by their environment. The environment consists of other organizations that exert various forces
of an economic, political, or social nature.
2. Situation_analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The word comes from the Greek analusis, ‘a breaking up’ which brings together the root words ‘and’ meaning ‘up’ and ‘lyein’ meaning ‘loosening.’ It implies the separation of a whole into its component parts, or the ‘examination of a complex, its elements and their relations.’ Analysis, which can be conducted conceptually, linguistically, manually, or with a device, is a crucial part of landscape design.
3. Landscape architecture becomes an art of organizing encounters. When humans come into contact with the attributes and affections of nature through the exercise of this art, they make it possible for themselves to act in such a way as to augment their own natures.
4. The notion of assemblage has been used in a number of disciplines to describe a collection of different types of objects and relations that act on, and with, each other to form a dynamic arrangement or organization of material conditions.
5. Natureculture We start from the premise that landscape architects are interested in what is called nature because they are interested in the relations between humans and nonhumans. This interest has regulated the evolution of the practice of landscape architecture that, for many centuries, was guided by habits of thought and practices of making derived from garden discourse.
6. Urban Field Theory made possible the scientific expression of the principles of imminence, dynamism and continuity, research areas of much interest to landscape architectural designers.
7. Morphogenesis is a term derived from developmental biology to describe the ability of organisms and natural systems to generate form from within. Landscape architects reaserch the connectivities that enable form and behavior to emerge from process.
8.The objects and processes of the world with which landscape architects engage by means of design tend to change through time. A key concept when considering this change through time is that of difference.
9. Disturbance_Ten Point Guide develops an argument to the effect that nature disrupts and destabilizes urban social relations, and through this interference contributes to the construction of new urban practices and values.
10. Formless_In landscape design there has been a privileging of form over content that has tended to lead to a typological framing of program. To consider the future organization of a terrain as potentially park, riverside walk, ecological corridor or urban square can limit the way we think about, and then organize, the conditions at our disposal.
