Wall, Edward Duncan (2025) Chapter 11. Is landscape public? In: Doherty, Gareth and Waldheim, Charles, (eds.) Landscape Is...! Essays on the Meaning of Landscape. Routledge - Taylor and Francis, London. ISBN 978-1003148142 (In Press) (doi:10.4324/9781003148142)

PDF (Accepted book chapter) 48133 WALL_Chapter_11_Is_Landscape_Public.pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only until 14 August 2026. Download (1MB) | Request a copy

Abstract

This chapter describes how climate action – demonstrations that occupy streets, squares, and even highways – draw connections between landscapes impacted by global warming and public spaces of protest. Building on a combination of fieldwork and critical analysis, the chapter maps a conceptual framework where processes of landscapes (as more-than-human entities) and practices of making public space (as socio-spatial constructions) are connected through direct action (and inaction). The chapter outlines definitions of public space and landscape, recognizing frictions between historic Western European approaches to landscape that undermine more open, accessible, and democratic spaces. Advancing the concept of post-landscape, the research reveals how transnational public spaces can be claimed and represented by adopting techniques of planetary landscapes. This reciprocity between landscape and public space highlights that traditional bounded definitions and spaces of both landscapes and publics can be reframed through an emphasis on processes and practices of continual remaking.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	landscape, public space, publics, climate change, climate action
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2024 12:32
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48133

Actions (login required)

View Item

Downloads