https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:24:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/ https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:54:47 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125024 An essay on how we push animals into playing roles — from fables and films to renders of biodiversity and art — tracing how these projections tame, abstract, or estrange, and how synurbists and artists unsettle the human–animal divide.]]> https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/ https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/#respond Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:08:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124877 Growing up on a farm in Tyrol, surrounded by repetitions of natural processes to which rituals and traditions attune, Weinberger developed an understanding of the nature–culture relationship observed from the periphery.]]> https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/ https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:23:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123097 In this article, we enter into a conversation with Danilo Milovanović (DNLM), an artist based in Slovenia, whose practice in public space leaves behind socio-political and environmentally engaged commentaries. His interventions open up civic debate and make visible the tensions that shape contemporary urban life. Trained in the visual arts, Milovanović positions his practice outside […]]]> https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/ https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:01:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121779 On a mild evening last April, Room 304 in Pratt Institute’s architecture school, Higgins Hall—an oddly grandiose double-height classroom space with a view of the Manhattan skyline—is packed. The Landscape Seminar Series—launched in 2022 in conjunction with Pratt’s Master of Landscape Architecture program—has invited the iconic land artist and activist Mary Miss to speak as […]]]> https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/ https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/#respond Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:09:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119761 The first parks open to the public in Western society date back to the late 18th century, with the Englischer Garten in Munich (1789), named by the renowned Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, followed by Maksimir Park in Zagreb (1794). Birkenhead Park, described as a “People’s Garden” by Olmsted and designed by Joseph Paxton in Liverpool […]]]> https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/ https://landezine.com/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:40:26 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118272 As part of the broader philosophical movement of speculative realism, OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology) directly challenges the long-established belief that reality is always determined solely through human perception. Instead, the father of OOO, philosopher Graham Harman, argues that all objects—human and non-human, natural and artificial—exist independently of our subjective conceptualizations. To understand the radical nature and […]]]> https://landezine.com/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/ https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/#respond Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:01:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118557 With a highly influential line of land artists creating large-scale earthworks, especially in the North American deserts, one asks: “Where did land art go?” Did works like The Lightning Field (1977) by Walter De Maria, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973–76), and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) conclude with Michael Heizer’s City—a project started in 1970 […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/ https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:39:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116571 Collectively, all humans experience 8 billion days in 24 hours. That is about 22 million years lived in one day. When one starts to think about time in that way, it seems inevitable to envision the collective impact of human life on Earth. ]]> https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/hold-still/ https://landezine.com/hold-still/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:44:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114978 With our 21st century attentions challenged by endless streams of information on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, as well as blockbuster films supercharged by quick cuts and loads of special effects, Roundhay Garden Scene is improbably well suited for our age: who really has the time to spend more than 1 or 2 seconds on any one piece of visual content?2 Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire, an 8-hour long, black-and-white movie featuring a single shot of New York City’s Empire State Building, offers a useful counterpoint.]]> https://landezine.com/hold-still/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/ https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:29:42 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113761 Domesticated and genetically engineered organisms are usually overlooked by natural museums and institutions for cultural history. There is no space for artifacts such as dogs, chickens and corn. The Center for PostNatural History is the sequel to the natural history museum, and takes agriculture’s evolution as a starting point. CPNH focuses on the deliberate alterations […]]]> https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/ https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:22:38 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113322 Giovanni Aloi is an author, curator, and creator with a PhD from Goldsmiths University, focusing on natural history in art representation. His work examines depictions of flora and fauna to uncover societal values and foster shifts in these through critical reflection. Through publishing, curating exhibitions, delivering talks, and editing Antennae: The Journal of Nature in […]]]> https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/sara-eichner-on-public-and-data-through-design/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 07:33:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111401 Sara Eichner is a visual artist and designer with a keen interest in data visualisations and cartography. She works with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and programming languages like Python and uses design software to translate data into comprehensible visual stories. Her work is people-centred and she often uses data to represent less-heard voices. Eichner is […]]]> https://landezine.com/tropical-forest-versus-mies-van-der-rohe-by-caio-reisewitz/ https://landezine.com/tropical-forest-versus-mies-van-der-rohe-by-caio-reisewitz/#respond Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:30:07 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111176 Caio Reisewitz has created an artistic intervention in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, titled “Suspendre el Cel”. To Suspend the Sky is the artist’s reference to activists shamans Davi Kopenawa and Ailton Krenak, alluding to Indigenous practices and beliefs of Amazonian people that the earth is made out of the sky, so the sky […]]]> https://landezine.com/tropical-forest-versus-mies-van-der-rohe-by-caio-reisewitz/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/art-exhibition-series-watching-the-glacier-go-away/ https://landezine.com/art-exhibition-series-watching-the-glacier-go-away/#comments Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:19:12 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108422 This summer, throughout Switzerland, you can attend the curated observation of the ongoing phenomenon of glaciers melting. Art installations, performances and exhibitions, scattered about the Alpine landscape, are informed by this exclusive moment in climate history that will forever change our landscapes. The melting progresses with the proportion of the loss of albedo surface. Although […]]]> https://landezine.com/art-exhibition-series-watching-the-glacier-go-away/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/ https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:49:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103907 Landezine talks to Andre Dekker, who, together with Ruud Reutelingsperger, Lieven Poutsma and Geert van de Camp, forms a public art collective Observatorium. In the video, Dekker gives a 30-minute-long presentation of some of Observatorium’s most recent and most important works. Their artworks traverse the realms of urban planning, landscape design, architectural innovation, and artistic […]]]> https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/soundscapes-international-landscape-study-days-2024-on-the-23-24-of-february-in-treviso-and-online/ https://landezine.com/soundscapes-international-landscape-study-days-2024-on-the-23-24-of-february-in-treviso-and-online/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:07:59 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103653 Soundscapes The experience of silence and sound in the landscape International Landscape Study Days Thursday 22-Friday 23 February 2024, Treviso and online Friday 16 February 2024, from 5 pm, online preview The 20th edition of the International Landscape Study Days, organised by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, will be held in Treviso (at the Palazzo Bomben […]]]> https://landezine.com/soundscapes-international-landscape-study-days-2024-on-the-23-24-of-february-in-treviso-and-online/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/ https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:35:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=101256 Günther Vogt probably needs no introduction in our profession; he has been an important practitioner for a couple of decades now, appreciated globally for his rich, non-linear and adventurous design approach. Initially, his education was more in the direction of botany. He later shifted to landscape architecture by studying in Rapperswil, Switzerland. After his study […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/ https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:29:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=100939 Sarah Cowles of Ruderal presents their design for the Betania Garden near Tbilisi, Georgia, which was awarded LILA 2023 Special Mention in the Garden category. We start the discussion with an update on Arsenal Oasis, another LILA-winning project from 2021 (See the presentation). For the Betania Garden, the LILA 2023 jury wrote: At first glance, […]]]> https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-1/ https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-1/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:42:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=100091 The production of landscape architecture projects has been in recent years outstanding, and our entire professional community has much to be proud of. But as always, there is a flip side; like in architecture or any design discipline of the globalised and speeding-up world, we are faced with a sea of sameness. Too many buildings […]]]> https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-1/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/claude-cormier-1960-2023/ https://landezine.com/claude-cormier-1960-2023/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:59:24 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=99133 It is with sadness that we learned about the passing of renowned Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier. In 1995, he established Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes in Montreal and, in nearly three decades, received a plethora of awards for his work, both in Canada and internationally. At Landezine, we featured a selection of projects by his […]]]> https://landezine.com/claude-cormier-1960-2023/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/ https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/#comments Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:40:59 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=97784 Urban biodiversity? Yes, please! Nevertheless … … Due to the transitional phase of our understanding of nature in the light of the Anthropocene, there are still some important notions, contradictions and misunderstandings that need to be addressed. To do so, we will operate with terms like nature, ecology, biodiversity, landscape, and aesthetics, and we’ll focus […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/feed/ 7 https://landezine.com/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/ https://landezine.com/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:47:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=96155 »Paradigm shift« has been, for at least a decade now, one of the most used phrases in landscape architecture. We use it mainly to address the need to focus on design with natural processes in mind. This is important as it concerns our core values, attitude towards nature, the understanding of natural processes and the […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/ https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:05:41 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=83410 Rotterdam Rooftop Days (Rotterdamse Dakendagen) is an annual festival that promotes rooftop living and emphasises the potential of roofs in mitigating issues of public space, empowering communities, reducing urban heat, increasing urban biodiversity, urban food production etc. It features Knowledge Day, Rotterdam Rooftop Walk, various cultural events and, most importantly, establishes a network of permanently […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/ https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:55:32 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79948 In this essay, Zaš Brezar writes about the role of urban roofs in our collective memory. Illustrating the meaning of roofs through a selection of cultural references from films and music. The article is a part of Living Roofs focus on Landezine that is going on in October and November 2022.]]> https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/feed/ 0