Ways of Engaging: Re-assessing effects of the relationship between landscape architecture and art in community involvement and design practice

• Type: Academic Work
• Date: 2018-12

Authors

Miguel Costa (Author) FBAUP

Indexing

RCAAP

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Architecture > Landscape architecture ; Humanities > Arts

Associated Institutions

ISA - Instituto Superior de Agronomia

Other information

Abstract (EN): The several key points and specific measures introduced by the European Landscape Convention (2000), its consequent Explanatory Report and Implementation Guidelines led to different impact and concerns of how to deal with landscape matters. For example, all the landscapes should be considered, not just the selected ones, showing a biggest concern about the places where people live, such as urban and peri-urban areas; the public should have an active role and responsibility as well as awareness raising, training and education through an enhanced part in participation actions; cross disciplinary and a more diversity on the approaches related with landscape matters are needed. Additionally, along with these renewed concerns, also renewed challenges came up. These are related with the indifference, skepticism or the general idea that public participation can be a waste of time; and also with the more complex demands regarding public involvement in urban areas, which also include the intersection with multiple social, cultural, political and economic circumstances. These are fluctuating conditions that require constantly renewed strategies and skills to address it. It is from this perspective that this research will analyze and discuss different connections between landscape architecture and art in order to address the today's challenges of public engagement and participation. On the one hand, the research has gradually moved away from a predominant phenomenological model, more confined to the physical and spatial framework of the site, and where the practice of Land Art continues to have a particular resonance; on the other hand it brings forth different perspectives from the artistic practices, focusing mainly on practices that were developed on subjects related with a more active socio-political engagement through the public's activation, emancipation, empowerment or awareness. The goal is to discuss the results of these approaches, produced from temporary projects made by artists or by different collaborations between arts and other disciplines, in order to contribute not only to more efficient and inclusive design practices, but also to an improved engagement processes between the public, the design team and the project. The aim is to reinforce a more active role of the public that may translate into responsibility as well as in awareness raising, training and education, mainly referring to the specific context of the urban landscape. Keywords: urban landscape, art, temporary projects, public engagement.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 236