Project R-15540

Unstable Times: Exploring the Reciprocal Influence of Art and Landscape Architecture Amidst Contemporary Ecological and Social Crises (Research)

There exists a reciprocal influence between the fields of landscape architecture and the visual arts when it comes to depicting, representing, organizing, designing and researching landscapes. Today, the two disciplines share another common concern, that of ecological crisis and climate change and their social consequences. Because of these urgent concerns, we see a tendency in both fields to expose these problems and to work towards partial solutions. Within this process both art and landscape architecture hold the potential of influencing our perspective on and experiences of our environment. They call upon sensory perceptions and therefore explore ambiguities and complexities. Following the visual structures and patterns in the landscape up close through both fields can show how they are related to today's issues of power, identity, territory, extinction and mourning, and how they are interlinked with landscaping, ecological thinking and the visual arts. This research aims to show how these structures and patterns, once laid bare, created, recreated or cocreated, can configure our visual perception, and in doing so bring us to a tangible approach to living and creating in the present, unsettling times.

16 January 2025 - 15 January 2027