REP II 2022 group landscapenine narravtive ' PLACE '
History of the site and how its changed over time? What it is now and what it could be in 20 years' time? What is Landscape? ...And what is place, anyway? Spiritual interconnections between places and landscape Place is a personal connection Pengfei Liu A1731506 Felix Davis A1759231 Yosur Abumustafa A1828515 Yuejun Wang A1806362 pages 1-2 pages 3-4 pages 5-6 pages 7-8 CONTENTS
What it is now and what it could in 20 years' time?
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The topic of this time is to design a landscape trail in Brownhill Creek Recreational Park to provide a leisure place for local users. The trail is now surrounded by a 400-year-old group of large river red gums, blue gum woodland climbs the valley slopes. Until the 1950s it once sheltered a group of Kaurna Aboriginal people who camped, hunted and gathered here, in the heyday of the venue about 150 people gathered. In the 1840s agriculture, market gardening and quarrying emerged around the site, and Concrete pits were used to store waste from industry and animal husbandry to protect the creek from pollution. The surrounding natural resources such as stone were used by quarries to build houses. In 1915, the area was declared a National Recreation and in 1972 it became Brown Hill Creek Recreation Park. Today, the 51-hectare park provides the public with an escape from the city and contributes significantly to Adelaide's biodiversity. In the future design, the site will be reactivated to create ecological diversity; connect the caravan camp to provide a sustainable ecological place; and respect and inherit the indigenous culture and become the cultural carrier of the Kaurna Aboriginal people. Capturing a place's memories and past is the best way to learn about it. In the architectural design, the designer makes the design connect the past and the future through dialogue with the history of the site. Awakening the history of the site can awaken the sense of belonging of some people, and it is also a way to respect the site.
History of the site and how its changed over time?
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Furthermore, if we hold that place is definitively intransient –that it cannot change- we are forgetting the reality of both nature and the way we occupy it, either simply or through our buildings. Nature is constantly changing, as the forces of cyclical weather and biological activity shape and modify the land. Despite the artificiality of our buildings, through which we expressly and monumentally memorialise human cultures, trying to fix them into the landscape, change still occurs. We modify or replace these buildings as our needs evolve, and even without such action they themselves decay. Change is everywhere and in everything.
Landscape is rich with complex meaning...and mystery...regardless of human activity and comprehension. It can be more than a western theoretical construct, a way to mentally conquer the wilderness by choosing to see it only as a sort of outdoor stage for our activities. What is Landscape? ...And what is place, anyway?
The implication of this non-place theory is to ascribe lesser status to somewhere we simply pass through. What does this mean for unoccupied spaces, or spaces providing just the setting for kinetic movement? What does this mean for abandoned spaces where events once happened, from the prosaic to the profound- are they demoted from place status, or do they perhaps re-qualify as host locales evoking memory?
A good point to begin grappling with the meaning of something as arguably amorphous, as place is by understanding what it is not- and thus defining it by opposition. Handily for us, nonplace is a readymade concept: the French philosopher Marc Augé has proposed the notion of an anthropological space of transience. Essentially, this would mean that unless a location hosts static events it is somehow inferior in its potential for meaning and identity as to another place where events do actually happen, or ‘take place’.
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A place can be interpreted differently by every individual, they may feel a sense of connection to a specific place through spiritual factors. For instance, they can be drawn to factors such as a person's belief along with aspects how it makes them feel. As an example, the Aboriginal people possess a complex and extensive spiritual attachment and connection to numerous natural landscapes all around Australia.
Spiritual interconnections between places and landscape
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This is reflected throughout the history of Brownhill creek as it is known to be 'creek and scrub place' to the Kaurna people. Furthermore, this was experienced when present at the site. This was achieved through a feeling of serenity, belonging as well as a sense of peace at the landscape. A feeling of safety and being shielded from the psychological tempest that is present outside and among other Thepeople.earth is scattered with 'soul' places, someone can go to the sea to feel whole again, someone may find being at the mountains makes them feel one with the creation or feel the presence of spirits in the deep forest through the trees. Being present in one's 'soul' landscape fills the soul with comfort and produces a positive inner response within oneself.
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Space is neither an external nor an internal experience. What defines the existence of a space are the objects that can be perceived, so space is the relationship between objects. Space is an open, abstract area. Place is not a subjective, abstract concept, but a part of a location or space. It doesn't have to be occupied by a particular thing or by a particular object to be determined. A place can be determined by its surroundings.
Place is the basis of a direct connection with the outside world and People's lives, so it is imbued with meaning, material reality and human experience. In fact, identifying a place is a social phenomenon. The identity of a place is a particular combination of social relations. A place is like a container that contains experiences between people. Place and space are connected with each other, and the existence of place is the prerequisite for the built space to be meaningful. Place is a personal connection
Landscape is a man-made space created on the Earth’s surface for some specific purpose, not because of natural laws and historical evolution. Place is created by human experience. It is invisible, and its existence is closely related to the sense and perception of the world.
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