Landscape in Transition. The Agency of Time in Understanding and Representing the Landscapes of the Anthropocene

Gianni Lobosco; Lorenzo Tinti

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/15320

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Gianni Lobosco Department of Architecture - University of Ferrara https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4976-3941

Architect, PhD in Landscape Architecture at the University of Ferrara where he teaches Parametric Landscape Design & Infrastructure Planning in the Final Master Thesis Class. Within the Architecture Department of the same university, he is director of the Research Centre Sealine (Sustainable Development of Coastal Systems). He has been visiting expert and teacher in several academic institutions among which, in 2017, the Master in Landscape Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona. His academic and professional activities focus on the emerging relationships between landscape and infrastructures rising from the evolution of global phenomena such as tourism and climate change. These topics' investigation is carried on in collaboration with public management body and private companies interested in addressing their decision-making process with more landscape-oriented and resilient strategies.
Lorenzo Tinti Department of Architecture - University of Ferrara https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7170-373X

Lorenzo Tinti, landscape architect and PhD student at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara (Italy). Within the working group of the Sealine Departmental Centre, he carries out teaching and research activities mainly in the field of landscape architecture, with a focus on infrastructure and environmental resilience. Professionally, she works as a consultant in the field of landscape architecture and design.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/15320

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Landscape Architecture, Landscape Representation, Time Based Drawing, Design Process

Abstract

This contribution examines the representation of landscape temporal scale as a driver for landscape design and planning, questioning the univocal relationship between human and environmental processes, both from an aesthetic and procedural point of view. The aim of controlling and measuring the physical space by representing it has progressively evolved into an attempt to narrate the dynamic, ecological and social interactions that characterize its change in order to aesthetically penetrate the reality of objects that ontologically withdraw from us. Design directions can be developed from the quantification and representation of environmental time-based processes and directed towards future-oriented landscape transformations strategies and imagery. Among these perspectives, this essay interweaves the concepts of time and space, exploring how this merging represent a prerequisite for landscape designers, and a necessary exercise for students, in order to critically address design practices within the context of landscapes in transition.

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