TESTING GROUNDS CHALLENGING BOUNDARIES IF AGENDAS DICTATE THE BOUNDARIES OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE, HOW CAN DESIGNERS FIND TESTING-BEDS FOR CHALLENGING THIS LINEAGE?
KEY TERMS
AGENDA The objective or driving force behind a project. It is also identified as the reason for changes and the evolution of landscape architectual practice overtime. BOUNDARIES Landscape architectutral boundaries are considered to be the extents of what landscape architectural practice is in a theoretical sense. It implies a distinction between what landscape architecture is not; and therefore dictating what LA practice cannot be. CHANGEMAKERS Discussing landscape architecture as a vessel for change. CRITICAL PRACTICE Practices which challenge disciplinary conventions. This process of a critical practise places critique as the cornerstone for the generative approach to a design. Whereby the design becomes the vehicle for criticism. DISCIPLINARY CONVENTIONS The standards and protocols generally followed within landscape architecture. EXTRACTION A process of refinement and ‘drawing out’ particular elements. INSTITUTION The body of estsblished landscape architectural disciplinary conventions. Also considered in relation to legal requirements, the established laws, that interplay with landscape architectural practices. LINEAGE Landscape architectual practice overtime. PRACTICE A firm or individuals interpretation of disciplinary conventions. PROJECT A planned undertaking with an intended outcome usually embodying a particular LA practice.
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