Landscape Infrastructures: On Boundary Objects and Passage Points: Working paper #7

This paper is part of my ongoing Ph.D. thesis “Landscape infrastructures – Urban Forests as Ecological Systems”. Through investigations of the notion of infrastructure in a landscape urban discourse the thesis of this paper is that landscape infrastructure when seen as a fundamental relational concept can be used as a tool to create open, experiential and democratic landscape urban spaces.
Landscape infrastructure needs to be understood as something which through use, is in a constant and continuing process of becoming; landscape infrastructure should always be regarded in relation to human practice, as part of technological, biological and experiential systems.
Instead of asking what landscape infrastructure is the central question in this paper is when it is. To answer this question I explore the potential of urban forests as frameworks for such emerging landscape infrastructures.