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- Title
Sensational landscape: The relation between sensible landscape and public space .
- Authors
Besse, Jean-Marc
- Abstract
Landscape had a natural concept for a long period of time: a panoramic view from a high spot which offered perceived aes-thetics and emotional pleasure. Today, this vi-sual or decorative perception is in a crisis either in theory or in project and the relation between landscape and human has become complex rather than 'natural'. Landscape is not merely allocated to aesthetics and it is used in eco-nomics, political, law social sciences as well; from industry to saving energy. The question is what impact does this borderless concept have on legibility of concept and landscape perfor-mance? For instance, is vision still the only way of ac-cessing landscape while we hear about smell, hearing or even tasting landscape? Further-more, media developments (photography, cin-ema and digital world) and the non-material vir-tual world are distances away from traditional methods of visualization. Generally, nowadays landscape is less readable in the first place. To examine the ontological status, we have to study landscape transitional periods at first. In this study, we reach a basic decision which is the origin or the center of contemporary thoughts in landscape: every landscape can have a material aspect which is portrayed as a cultural oriented issue, a place to live and to be seen as a manifestation of sensible expe-rience and enthusiastic of development. We might come up to a holistic approach in facing landscape which means simultaneousness of landscape rationalisms separated by mod-ernism. This rationalism includes instrumental rationalism which can be observed in science and techniques; common rationalism which defines common ethical and political beliefs; aesthetic rationalism which encompasses vari-ous human encounters with the world; conver-sational or communicational rationalism which build symbolic framework where principles of common life forms within. The landscape architect has many prob-lems to concern about including matching techniques to space disorders and residents' requests, the meaning and value of place, en-hancing life quality in the site and coordination with social context (beliefs, rational thoughts, conflicts and multiplicity of traditions). These are the issues involved landscape in making thinking methods rather than looking for solu-tions. Obviously, collecting all these things may not be possible in a form of general landscape consideration, but its necessity is also undeni-able. A sensible space seems far-fetched at first; however, in fact it carries a profound result in defining landscape and defining the relation between landscape and human beings. This aspect focuses on sensible approach of land-scape and deals with landscape as a sensible space. Considering landscape as a part of human identity, it is not fair to think of it only in the issues of distance and vision. We must be «committed to landscapes and «have a sense» in landscape. We are "landscaping" and we are living with it more than we are able to see it. Therefore, we must be more accurate in the sense that we are committed to land-scape; since we can intervene in landscape, landscape is close to us, surrounding us and we are able to connect to it, even physically. The question in making a public space as a sensible space is: How does the metaphoric meaning of public space in analyzing political actions create and visualize spaces, especially urban spaces? The public space is quite rational and agree-able rather than being "abstract": there exists something else outside. The condition of pub-lic space which means "existing outside" has a spatial organization: not being so close for entering personal realm and not so far where the sound of others cannot be heard. Public space in architecture, urbanism and generally in spatial organization requires the art of creat-ing various spaces. Generally the public space is concerned with three basic issues: 1. Function, multiplicity and mixing them which are all summarized in the experience of inhabiting in the place; 2. The condition of sensible experience and inhabitancy which includes qualities such as form, light, texture, scale and equipment; 3. The uncontrollable and unpredicted parts of the place: the boundaries between spaces. Margins and edges are evident in other areas of space and identity in these spaces is pro-posed. It is concluded from these three issues that the multiplicity of approaches to the question of public space is essential. This multiplicity leads to landscape. The primary responsibility of landscape is producing space for interventionists' encounters in the land. Landscape is a «process» of space, not only due to the presence of human but because landscape is a consequent of a common thing.
- Subjects
LANDSCAPES; LANDSCAPE architecture; PUBLIC spaces; LANDSCAPE design; LANDSCAPE architects
- Publication
Manzar: The Iranian Scientific Journal of Landscape, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 21, p52
- ISSN
2008-7446
- Publication type
Article