Whilst I understand the need to catergorise the things we see around us, with today's knowledge, technology and access to instant information, I ask myself why does landscape need to be dissected and quartered into parts according to specific world views?
I believe that landscape can be a mixture of all existing principles and theories, but I also believe the following:
I definitely do not see landscape as something to be viewed from afar. Landscape is all around us, it's the space we inhabit. We are participants and are constantly shaping the landscape around us. This includes random events and acts as well as deliberate design intervention. People are affecting landscape just by merely being within it.
I see my role as a future Landscape Architect is to not only help shape the world in which we live but to also understand that we are all play an active role in this.
Therefore, I hold the view that landscape is 'life' and we are totally immersed within it and not viewing it from a distant platform. To over catergorise it in such a way, in my mind, could lead to disconnecting ourselves from it.
Just a thought...
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