HOW THE GARDEN MOVES
BY GALE FULTON, ASLA
From the June 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Several conditions of the contemporary world present serious challenges to traditional or conventional ways of thinking and making in landscape architecture. Some of these, such as the continuing analog versus digital debates, are tiresome, rarely well-argued (by at least one side if not both), and counterproductive to an advance in the cultural efficacy of the discipline. Others are more complex and unwieldy, but also likely have much greater capacity to expand the scale and scope of landscape architecture in the future. In this category I would place the interrelated questions of ?planetary urbanization,? ?Nature,? and the effects of the Anthropocene among the most perplexing and fecund for the future of the discipline. As Jedediah Purdy writes in After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene, ?As climate change shifts ecological boundaries, problems like habitat preservation come to resemble landscape architecture. We can?t just pen in animals to save them; we need to secure migration corridors and help species move as their habitats lurch across a changing map.? In effect, we will have to become planetary gardeners. Obviously, such massive questions exceed the capacities of any one discipline?s knowledge. But this ?bigness? should not be an alibi for continued reliance on outmoded ways of thinking such as notions of cities or sites as discrete, bounded conditions that can be operated o...
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