Topography's event

The aim of the paper is first to discuss how horizon and scale can be understood, secondly how they differ and what they might have in common? If topography can be seen as a way of working with these relations experiences, creations and latencies? Thirdly if diagrams and diagrammatology can bring horizon and scale into play and be seen as a possible transition dealing with these aspects?  And finally in what way this approach is relevant for Landscape Architecture?

The paper will draw its reflections from the American art historian David Leatherbarrow's notions on horizon and topography, the French architect and theorist Phillip Boudon's scales and space of conception and the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's diagrams as abstracts machines. They are all interested in the problems of the non visual, states it form different angles but with thoughts that overlap and seem useful to fold this problem out.

In landscape architecture, working with site surveying, the question of measurement is crucial. Awareness of the difference between the actual site and ones experience of it, the middle ground between the eye point and the figures/elements is important.  It's an recognition of what you measure is not there alone since you measure it in something both visual, physical and shaped by views and ideas of society; something thought and abstract. Such knowledge point out the need for being able to measure other factors that visual and physical.

Metrical and proportional view of the world seems not to be cable of catching the latency of the non visual. The focus of phenomenology on body and perception as a way of grasping non visual and abstracts aspects seems to also favour physical and visual objects, and thereby a one dimensional functionalistic thinking of appropriateness not interested in relations. Landscape Architecture in Denmark stands in front of how to deal with the contemporary scale less space. In this relation it seems important to replace a one dimensional functionalistic thinking of appropriateness with polygonal dimensionality in praxis methods, educational skills and space formation - to stimulate and elaborate the event of conception and topological thinking.