The relationship between humans and nature is
multi-faceted. Understanding this relationship has great impact on creating
vibrant, safe, sustainable environments in which to live, work and play. EDRA's
Nature and Ecology Network fosters interaction among its members to encourage
research, design, and effective policy in these areas.
The Nature and
Ecology Network sponsors paper sessions and networking opportunities at the
annual EDRA conference, responds to inquiries through the EDRA office, and
shares relevant news items (job postings, funding opportunities) via
e-mail.
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Title: The World's 18 Strangest Gardens
In: Popular Mechanics
By: Chris Sweeney
"Designing a landscape can be as simple as planting a backyard garden or as complex as shaping tons of earth around a city. As eco-friendly design continues to prosper, landscape architects are devising new ways of gleaning environmental benefits from the natural surroundings while minimizing how buildings disrupt the scenery. Meanwhile, smaller-scale gardens are being designed to explore abstract concepts and catalog fauna from around the globe. From an ancient agricultural site in Sri Lanka to the fledgling crops of the International Space Station, we dug up this collection of the world's most noteworthy gardens and landscapes."
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Call for Papers: Technische Universität München, Institute for Urban Design, Urbanism and Landscape |
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Symposium 04. and 05. February 2010
Technische Universität München, Institute for Urban Design, Urbanism and Landscape
Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Space
Call for Papers | Infrastruktururbanismus
Modern high capacity infrastructure creates accidental space along its periphery, and in the shadow of its own spatial configuration respectively. It is kind of a shadow city that emerges from the peripheral space along motorways, train tracks, elevated highways, pipelines, cable tracks – urban space free from explicit definition and intentional design. In the very places where car parks, rubbish collection facilities, vacant lots due to setback requirements are evolving, the city dissipates its own realm to an unaccounted extent. This “waste” is rarely given a proper name or address: Under the bridges. At the car park. Along the train tracks. In the rear of the stadium. Next to the sewage plant. Descriptions of space that work just about anywhere and that could hardly be more unspecific.
The examination of these spaces in the scope of a symposium is not aimed at finding a recipe for the beautification of these infrastructural margins, but rather at developing their potential as public spaces, which carry an aesthetic expression of their own. It is exactly along these margins where public space can unfold its neglected potential as a space of heterogeneity, because public space is a spatial conception, a phantasmagoria, regardless of its functioning as urban public space or public space defined by landscape. It is capable of an ‘in-between’ state, of tolerating a clash and it provides contemporary urbanism a presence as a fragile state of superimposition. The ambiguity of public space between the poles of mobility and locality, and its disability to allocate itself to one or the other, and as well its disability to achieve reconciliation or compensation among the two poles and to escape the ‘in-between’ state, makes it an archetype for the phantasmagorial view of the ‘urban’ city.
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Landscape Architecture World Month |
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The International Federation of Landscape Architects have just released a News Brief special issue dedicated to the Landscape Architecture World Month. It is posted on IFLA's website at www.iflaonline.org/publications.php
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