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- Title
Attributes of a Successful Ethnobotanical Garden.
- Authors
Jones, Susan Bahnick; Hoversten, Mark Elison
- Abstract
A successful ethnobatanical garden tells a compelling story about the relationship between people, plants, and the natural world in a particular place at a particular time, within a broader cultural or environmental context. We propose a framework for programming and design based on five attributes of a successful ethnobotanical garden. The proposed framework can help Landscape architects answer six basic questions when programming and designing an ethnobotanical garden: What people are being interpreted? What aspects of their culture? How did they use this place? What plants did they use? How did they use them? What did they make with them? More importantly, the framework provides a tool for expanding our collective vision of what an ethnobotanical garden can be. By sharing this framework, we encourage landscape architects to approach ethnobotanical gardens from the broader context of a people's relationship to the Earth. In this way, we can improve the quality of ethnobotanical garden design and intepretation, and increase these gardens' effectiveness in changing visitors'perceptions of, attitudes towards, and behavior on the land.
- Subjects
BOTANICAL gardens; GARDEN design; LANDSCAPE design; LANDSCAPE architecture; LANDSCAPE architects
- Publication
Landscape Journal, 2004, Vol 23, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0277-2426
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3368/lj.23.2.153