I have an essay titled "Land formations Tectonic Grounds" out soon in a forthcoming book edited by Nadia Amoroso called "Representing Landscapes: Digital"
My contribution is intended to expand on the the role Landscape urbanism on concepts such as territory, land and ground and how the digital is shaping its development in academia especially at our programme at the Architectural Association, here is an extract of the text:
"Land-Formations
Tectonic-Grounds
The
Landscape Urbanism MA at the Architectural Association is engaged with the idea
of landscapes as the milieu for the development of a practice at a territorial
scale. This practice is concerned on the one hand with the geomorphological
formations of landforms (Tectonic Grounds) and on the other with the actual
cultural, political and economic forces that drive and choreograph the social
formations of these territories (Land Formations).
The
understanding of these concepts as the primeval material to work with, draws
knowledge and understanding from fields such as geomorphology and/or sociology,
and claims the seeds from where Landscape Urbanism recognises the engines
behind territorial production. Territory thus is understood as an assemblage of
manufactured landscapes that requires a multidisciplinary knowledge from
relevant fields, ever since it is shaped by a myriad of both physical and
social processes and dynamics.
Ultimately
these territorial assemblages of land formations and tectonic grounds are
cultural productions derived from a constant and relentless human and natural
activity full of conflicts, struggles, alterations, and shifts, within or
outside legal or institutional frameworks. As such they become the result of
specific historical processes with political consequences, which lies at the
core of Landscape Urbanism territorial practice..."
Alfredo Ramirez , April 2014
Alfredo Ramirez , April 2014
