Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation

ISBN-13: 9781409467052 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 248 str.

Davide Deriu;Krystallia Kamvasinou;Eugenie Shinkle

Opis

Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world. Drawing on the synergies between the fields of architecture and photography, this collection takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining practice-based research with scholarly essays. It explores and critically reassesses the interface between representation - the imaginary and symbolic shaping of the human environment - and production - the physical and material changes wrought on the land. At a time of environmental crisis and the 'end of nature, 'shifting geopolitical boundaries and economic downturn, Emerging Landscapes reflects on the state of landscape and its future, mapping those practices that creatively address the boundaries between possibility, opportunity and action in imagining and shaping landscape.

Recenzje

'Above all, this book advocates the use of media and new technologies, being either photography or advanced visual laboratories, across disciplines to investigate this evolutionary process in order to expand readers’ sensitivity in seeing everyday landscape.' Global Built Environment

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I Picturing Global Change; Chapter 1 Inhabiting the Metropolis, Gabriele Basilico; Chapter 2 Some Dry Space: An Inhabited American West, Michael Light; Chapter 3 Prelude to a Future: Global Risk and Environmental Apocalypse in Contemporary Landscape Photography, Eugénie Shinkle; Chapter 4 Liquid History, Anxious Future: The Thames Estuary, A Landscape Under Threat, Frank Watson; Chapter 5 Desires Grown Solid: Shopping Centre Interiors, Fergus Heron; Part II Alternative Fields of Vision; Chapter 6 The Military Spatial Complex: Interpreting the Emerging Spaces of British Militarism, Matthew Flintham; Chapter 7 Truthing Gap '“ Imagining a Relational Geography of the Sub-Maritime, Rona Lee; Chapter 8 In Transition, Andrew Langford; Chapter 9, Christophe Girot; Chapter 10 Landscape and Fluid Imaging of the Emerging City, Gary D. Sampson; Part III Transitional Landscapes and Critical Praxis; Chapter 11 Beyond the Desert of the Real: Regenerative Narratives in the Cityscape, Lawrence Bird; Chapter 12 Towards an Emergent Knowledge of the Margins: Reflections on an Urban Retreat, Emma Cocker; Chapter 13 On the Possibility of a Re-emergent Landscape in Dublin, Ireland, Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe; Chapter 14 Reimagining Interim Landscapes, Krystallia Kamvasinou; Chapter 15 Fencing In and Weeding Out: Curating Nature at Former Nazi Concentration Camp Sites and Mass Graves in Europe, Jessica Rapson;

O autorze

Dr Davide Deriu is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Krystallia Kamvasinou is a Researcher in Architecture and the Built Environment and Dr Eugenie Shinkle is Senior Lecturer in Photographic Theory and Criticism, all at the University of Westminster, UK.