Gardens of Situations: Learning from the Danish Modern Landscape: Working paper #6

Publikation: Working paperForskning

Abstract

This paper is part of my ongoing Ph.D. thesis “Landscape infrastructures – Urban Forests as Ecological Systems”.
My thesis in this paper is that a specific lineage of Modern Danish landscape architecture, as it was introduced by G.N Brandt in the early 20th century and further developed by C.Th. Sørensen and Sven-Ingvar Andersson during the same century, was exemplary in creating open, democratic landscape urban spaces. This lineage of Danish landscape architectural practice needs to be understood as something which through use, is in a constant and continuing process of becoming and should always be regarded in relation to human practice. The concept of the forest and of the forest clearing plays a key role in creating the overall open framework for such practice.
This assessment is important in contemporary „Fragmented Urban Landscapes‟ because both technological and large scale assignments need to be seen in relation to human practice. Assignments that not only should be based on intellectual-cognitive acknowledgements but also have to “appeal to the senses and involve bodily experiences” because “the fragmented urban landscapes only begin to speak in a design process that consists of an interlacing of understanding and space.” (Sieverts, 2007)
Learning from a series of modern Danish landscape architectural projects by Brandt, Sørensen and Andersson I will define a specific form for gardening – and more importantly a specific form for gathering – which I call „Gardens of Situations‟. These are temporary constructions in an open system, where focus is directed towards the (forest) edges which function as double coded standards that enable different systems to meet.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
UdgivelsesstedAarhus
Antal sider17
StatusUdgivet - 1 aug. 2009

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