By Bob Jacobsen (See my list of links for source):
MANIFESTO FOR AN UNBLINKERED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, by Tom Turner*
1. We believe landscape architecture to be the most comprehensive of the arts. Its theory and history are continuous from ancient to modern times, with Senenmut, Vitruvius, Bramante, Babur, Le N-tre, Brown, Repton, Meason, Olmsted, Jellicoe, and McHarg among its leaders.
2. Lanship, defined as the condition of friendship between people and places, is our goal.
3. The six grand compositional elements of designed landscape are: landform,water, plants, climate, buildings, and paving (or "horizontal and vertical structures").
4. As an art, the practice of landscape architecture rests on the "imitationof nature" (mimesis) in the classical (neo-Neoplatonic) sense of representing visual ideas about the nature of the world.
5. Landscape design does best when preceded by excellent landscape planning and sustained by able stewards. It's therefore necessary to involve clients, communities, and other professionals in the planning, design, and maintenance of projects which aim to create lanship.
Saturday 26 May 2007
Tuesday 1 May 2007
Simulation Games
My daughter bought a game today called Mall Tycoon 2, where you design and run your own mall. It's not a bad little game, but helping her play it got me thinking about these sorts of games. They have become very sophisticated, and I think we need one that is environmentally focused. Why not create a game whereby you have to run the world economy in such a way as to reverse the threat of global warming, for example? This would be a great way of communicating this concept to people in a non-threatening way, and would make people realize that driving a car, eating a lot of red meat, etc all impact the environment negatively when done en masse.
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