Aldo Leopold’s “land ethic” is a call to extend the community of moral concern beyond humans to include soils, waters, plants, and animals. It reframes land as not property to be used but a collective organism of which humans are only one part. The ethic demands a shift from domination to respect, from exploitation to stewardship, from economics to ecology. Leopold envisions conservation as a cultural and ethical revolution, where right action preserves “the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic
In the U.S., lawns cover nearly 2 percent of the land surface and, as researcher Cristina Milesi revealed using satellite data, “could be considered the single largest irrigated crop in America”—their total area is three times larger than that of irrigated cornfields. The infatuation with lawns runs so deep that, in some cases, failing to […]
Organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), the online event commemorates the occupation of the Alcatraz Island by the Indigenous people. On March 9, 1964, five Lakota Sioux briefly occupied Alcatraz Island, declaring it “Indian Land.” A longer and more influential occupation followed from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, when the group “Indians […]
The inaugural lecture, given by Joost Emmerik when he assumed his position as Head of Landscape at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2022. The text particularly excels in embedding doubt into the teaching process. It is the doubt about nature, our entanglement with it, and the values and politics that drive the design process. It is about passing knowledge to others and questioning it meanwhile – a much more pertinent and productive teaching paradigm for times of uncertainties and change.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has opened a call for nominations for Landslide, the foundation’s annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes. Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds will focus on sites associated with demonstrations and movements. “These multiple associations are waiting to be unlocked at almost every historic property or cultural landscape that has served […]
Liam Young is together with Kate Davies running the Unknown Fields project. They travel around the world and explore landscapes behind objects we used on a daily basis: materials for our phones, fabrics for clothes, lithium for batteries … We caught Liam in Ljubljana, where he was narrating Unknown Fields film live.
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