tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post782047978663925031..comments2023-08-23T07:26:40.601-07:00Comments on Scientist, Artist, Fulbright Scholar: The asynchronous landscapeSamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853318053618422097noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-81201129039072814662018-11-30T20:11:25.792-08:002018-11-30T20:11:25.792-08:00This post made me reflect upon the role of time as...This post made me reflect upon the role of time as a context for perceiving a landscape. A majority of the past assignments wherein we have been tasked to analyze local landscapes have allowed us to consider the present movements within the landscape as well as the past usage for various aspects of it. This post made me realize that analyzing the relationship between the past, present, and future can be incredibly helpful in understanding landscapes as well as envisioning landscape design/updates/etc. “I think it requires a little common sense and the possibility of stepping back for a moment from our egoish grand plans. If we consider more than the productive snapshot of our immediate present, if we take a moment to imagine a past and visualize a future, maybe we can design built environments that grow into the future as they become more beautiful and more usable.” This point resonated with me because it related to a cause that I care about: sustainability. Many companies are making the jump to be more sustainable, yet there are still many corporations and industries that rely on the destruction of the environment and landscape who let “egoish grand plans” of progress and capital gain take over their mindsets regarding what is important in a landscape. These companies view landscapes as utility, as the ingredients to financial success, and the means to this end. In the process, they have lost sight of the pivotal importance of healthy ecosystems and environments on the world. <br />-@SabrinaCti100@SabrinaCti100https://www.blogger.com/profile/16271380520482593939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-42416803715935695602018-11-29T16:00:51.486-08:002018-11-29T16:00:51.486-08:00Hi Lauren,
Good question and I think you could fi...Hi Lauren,<br /><br />Good question and I think you could find many articles and projects that are focused on this and building a green future for building projects globally.The Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808297652793841088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-3855365199356323382018-11-29T15:58:51.364-08:002018-11-29T15:58:51.364-08:00Ok first I am a little jelly that you are in Paris...Ok first I am a little jelly that you are in Paris. But I digress ... <br /><br />I like your ideas! That builds a sustainable yet 21st century environment.The Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808297652793841088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-64820346683963893472018-11-29T15:56:55.297-08:002018-11-29T15:56:55.297-08:00Hi Emma,
I have been really enjoying the aspects ...Hi Emma,<br /><br />I have been really enjoying the aspects of urban gardens. Read recently that planting fruit trees in both cities and in neighboorhood parks would help both the environment and help to end hunger. SO simple and yet we are now just adopting doing it. The Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808297652793841088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-87126000692756751162018-11-29T15:54:21.933-08:002018-11-29T15:54:21.933-08:00Good analogy and wise topic.Good analogy and wise topic.The Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808297652793841088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-4372900661011039642018-11-29T15:53:08.919-08:002018-11-29T15:53:08.919-08:00Yes, using local plants are finally becoming the c...Yes, using local plants are finally becoming the choice for landscaping and they are quite beautiful and different than a green lawn.The Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808297652793841088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-77748387891181120462018-11-29T15:51:27.094-08:002018-11-29T15:51:27.094-08:00Detroit is a good example, I watched a documentary...Detroit is a good example, I watched a documentary on it and what was stunning was how the environment was being reclaimed by the environment and resembled a much older landscape. There is opportunity there to redevelop with an eye to sustainablity both for industry and for housing.The Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808297652793841088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-75798146845153827612018-11-29T08:42:16.206-08:002018-11-29T08:42:16.206-08:00This idea introduced a new way of thinking for me ...This idea introduced a new way of thinking for me because I don’t often deal with landscape planning/design. I think that when we design something, we don’t consider how it will evolve or transform in the future- we’re mostly focused on how it appeals to us in the moment. For designs that include things that change on their own (ie plants) the original concept can be altered into something that was not intended- so when it comes to landscapes with plants and other changing organisms, it’s important to look into the future. The only experience I have that somewhat relates to this is when I set up my porch garden this past summer- I don’t have a yard so this is the best I can do to grow herbs and other plants. It was my first time gardening and I didn’t consider future issues that could impact the garden- the plants grew too big for their pots, the wind knocked a few of them over, and dramatic temperature changes killed some of them. These changes occurred over a short time period with a small amount of space but I would be interested to see how long term changes affect bigger landscapes. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07412458513502128904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-6008802849397362482018-11-28T21:14:36.752-08:002018-11-28T21:14:36.752-08:00It occurs to me upon reading this that nothing is ...It occurs to me upon reading this that nothing is finished. In our lifetimes we will never see the evolution of our landscape stop. We may sit back and look at something we’ve done, say “ah, finally finished!”, but every action, every inaction, influences the future in ways we may not realize. History helps inform the future, and we should take advantage of that incredible resource when planning landscapes, structures, cities, etc. But nothing happens the same way twice. We should be more conscientious and consider the downstream effects of our decisions. There is no blank slate, and what we do or make today will have a lasting impact that someone else will have to deal with in the future. Leslie Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03101631467386744966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-5658727808990363632018-11-28T20:08:50.694-08:002018-11-28T20:08:50.694-08:00This article makes me remember of the cities that ...This article makes me remember of the cities that were once successful but are now ghost towns. I know Detroit is one example of this. I also think about what San Francisco looked like before buildings were installed. Looking at the future and planning ahead is more important than making changes for the present. For big cities, we have to destroy the ecosystem to build skyscrapers and tall office buildings. While this may be a good thing for humans, it affects the environment and animals who were inhabiting the place. As landscapes change and we move toward the future, we should make better decisions and <br />preserve certain parts of the environment. I think a message to take away in this article is that we need to be more aware of our actions since they may or may not lead to consequences in the <br />future. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11488737805539560084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-2314898544132501322018-11-28T19:39:36.947-08:002018-11-28T19:39:36.947-08:00A new way of viewing architectural history for me ...A new way of viewing architectural history for me is to realize that the structures and surrounding landscape probably look much different from what was originally designed sometimes hundreds of years ago. How do we ever really know the full impact that our creations will have on the future, extending even beyond our lifetime? This realization makes me think back to the old pictures on campus at The University of Texas at Austin, which is close to home. The campus, as well as the city of Austin, look vastly different from the black and white photos on display. The traffic and construction in our growing city are nightmarish and a lot of that has to do with the infrastructure. Originally, it wasn’t built to be a large metropolitan city, but about 150 people move here every day now. If the founders of this city had known of the exponential population growth to be had in the 2000s, I doubt the landscape would look very similar to what we have now. Of course, how are we to expect ourselves to have a clear picture of what our landscape will look like in the next 100 years? Is that a realistic expectation? I’m not sure that it is. Olivia Tilleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11380916983335426043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-44670488235568405112018-11-28T18:59:10.552-08:002018-11-28T18:59:10.552-08:00I think we should always try and learn from the pa...I think we should always try and learn from the past when planning for the future. I think you are right in saying that this type of thinking is just common sense. The strawberries help illustrate how much time has an effect on our landscapes. It seems pretty much everything has an expiration date and we need to be aware of this when planning for the future. The actions we take today, whether they be in our daily lives or planning a built landscape, will absolutely have some effect on the future and our surroundings. By slowing down, using common sense, studying our surroundings, and learning from the past we might come to a better understanding of the possible effects our decisions and designs will have on the future and thereby help us to be more successful in creating sustainable ideas and landscapes that are able to grow with and compliment their surroundings. TonyStromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01172991848515760921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-77316349928916552952018-11-28T18:50:35.680-08:002018-11-28T18:50:35.680-08:00It's fascinating to think of how buildings and...It's fascinating to think of how buildings and landscapes change with the passing of time. The first thing that stuck out for me in this post was the comment about the plants growing in the building and how architects have to envision how their structures will look as time passes and things in and around the building change. Landscapes sometimes tell us things about the past - though never the full story - and we can imagine what used to be there but we don't really know much about the future. For architects it is important to predict or at least guess what will come. Knowing this will change his I look at buildings and structures especially older ones such as churches. Hopefully I will notice how time has affected the building and maybe I can consider what the person who thought of this would have predicted it to look compared to how it looks now. Jakob Forsbacka Karlssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464928505399083306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-42639880714810281702018-11-28T18:22:03.518-08:002018-11-28T18:22:03.518-08:00When designing “spaces or buildings or landscapes ...When designing “spaces or buildings or landscapes or urban habitations” it makes sense to look a year or ten years or even a hundred years into the future depending on the permanency of what it is you are constructing. This post made me think of my childhood home. Before my parents were married, they bought a one-story walk-up and my father stripped it down to its foundation and built a beautiful two-bedroom brick house. It was the perfect “landscape” to start a family in. When my sister came along, they put her toddler bed in my room. It was clear that our family was growing, and our “landscape” needed an upgrade to accommodate that. Instead of uprooting our family and moving, my father found another solution. He built a second story onto our home as we continued to live in it. By the time my brother was born, we lived in a spacious two-story, four-bedroom brick house. Soon after, my father decided our landscape still was not quite what he wanted it to be. Never one to back away from a challenge, he proceeded to dig out an entire basement underneath our house with a bobcat machine while we continued to live in it. The new space eventually became a game room/recreation area in which we created some of our best memories. The point that I am trying to illustrate is that sometimes you cannot look more than a year or two into the future when you are designing the ideal landscape around you. Human life is unpredictable, and I recognize that I was lucky enough to grow up in a home that morphed to fit the family who inhabited it. Often time you can only design a landscape that is perfect for that moment. You have to be willing to accept that the landscape must change to accommodate life.Shana Raehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424446543235570581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-79363973603161307512018-11-28T17:51:32.620-08:002018-11-28T17:51:32.620-08:00My name didnt show up in the post....
John Vaz de...My name didnt show up in the post.... <br />John Vaz de MedeirosAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04128500131683450409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-65880108199119690282018-11-28T17:33:08.538-08:002018-11-28T17:33:08.538-08:00The call to do better at accurately looking deeper...The call to do better at accurately looking deeper and clearer into the future during planning and constructing any items, whether a garden, bridge, dam, building, or city, was an interesting and new call out in the article to me. Although I am not sure, I agree that it is as easily accomplished as using a little common know how and reining in human ambitions. There are just too many unknowns laying in the future making it extremely difficult to accurately plan that far ahead. It could almost be an inverse ratio where the more time passes the less accurate one can actually be in achieving their planned vision. <br />Loads of examples abound to support this – like urban developers who first built homes with large lush-ish green yards, to then have cities restrict watering them and shifting to new homes with tiny patches or yards to now hearing calls to move back into cities and build denser housing or tinier homes. That is one example but the same has happened with farms and crops use of water and pesticides that are all now being rethought, and energy coming from coal, then atomic, and now solar, and even cars that go on hydrogen. Like most people did not see credit cards going from roller swipe machines, to magnetic stripes, and now embedded chips. This change to look clear into the future is actually quite difficult but it can be right for a moment but then it seems it is bound to derail.<br />IS380_301018_FIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17893311003821875605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-84515741099270639632018-11-28T16:45:07.809-08:002018-11-28T16:45:07.809-08:00For a few years, I’ve wanted to improve the landsc...For a few years, I’ve wanted to improve the landscape around my house, but haven’t yet gotten around to it. This post made me think about what this landscape might be in 50-100 years. Would it still be here based upon the rate of the sea level rise? If I did plant, would I plant directly in the ground or would I create elevated plant beds to protect from seawater flooding? Considering the past landscape makes a lot of sense to me. A few years ago my lawn was dug up to close my septic tank and hook up to the city sewer system. Underneath my lawn I saw loads of sea shells. I now understand why I have plant beds for the few plants in my backyard. The previous owner probably knew the plants needed a supported environment for growth. Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11840840672551954554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-48370517763104514852018-11-28T16:12:29.379-08:002018-11-28T16:12:29.379-08:00Hi Caitlin,
You made a good point about how enviro...Hi Caitlin,<br />You made a good point about how environmental factors that have changed or created the landscapes we have now are still at work. The patterns might be the same as in the past but with newer concepts of the present incorporated to reflect the preferences of the current generation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196778594160442312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-41862908686782077612018-11-28T16:04:38.088-08:002018-11-28T16:04:38.088-08:00Imagine we are the box of berries. We are sealed f...Imagine we are the box of berries. We are sealed from the outside, our own little bubble of Earth.We face an issue of Climate change, overpopulation and strain on our resources. We need more resources, we have the potential for losing more land and resources and we have already used about most of the resources on the planet. That starts a chain reaction. One berry goes bad, the gas accumulates, then another, and so on.So imagine our little bubble of Earth like that box of berries. If we weren't to stop the increase of emissions, we don't stop the gas from filling up our bubble, on landscape goes bad. It could no longer support its people. Then another and another. A landscape can spiral out of control once the conditions are no longer habitable. If I were to expand on this issue I would talk about the collapse of landscapes. Kristian Hoskerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01636562384026657535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-81957547321441444702018-11-28T16:02:28.722-08:002018-11-28T16:02:28.722-08:00Hi Preston,
You make a great point about human nat...Hi Preston,<br />You make a great point about human nature and our desire to control our landscapes. I think we do so for so many different reasons; shelter, safety and aesthetics but we don't plan as far out into the future as we probably should. I plan based on what I know, my needs and what's in the foreseeable future. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196778594160442312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-17232042041021927452018-11-28T15:53:09.756-08:002018-11-28T15:53:09.756-08:00Hi Unknown,
Please post your name so we know who y...Hi Unknown,<br />Please post your name so we know who you are.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196778594160442312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-73143014630108750552018-11-28T15:36:59.718-08:002018-11-28T15:36:59.718-08:00I enjoyed your comparison of the strawberries to l...I enjoyed your comparison of the strawberries to landscape, it was very visual and comprehensive. Delving into the focus of the article, an interesting proposal is brought up – how often do landscape and building designers look into the future? Productivity aside, in our current climate I believe the most important aspect of future growth is to consider the level sustainability present among our infrastructure, urban planning, and continual manipulation of our natural resources. I volunteer every year at Hub on Wheels, a Boston bike race that passes through the Arnold Arboretum. Luckily, we are always assigned that stop and are able to enjoy the beauty of this protected property. Spaces including arboretums and other collections of protected species, are important to sustain and implement in all environments. Ranging from basic oxygen supply to the overall well-being of the society, having large green spaces are always beneficial. A space like an arboretum will only grow in beauty overtime, whereas several infrastructures are made with a short-term timeline in mind. As we move towards a more strategic design process in our communities, it is important to place sustainability on a pedestal when developing new land or redesigning our current models. Maddie Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12983220230095293633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-19935730950418902802018-11-28T12:45:23.995-08:002018-11-28T12:45:23.995-08:00The fruit comparison stood out to me as something ...The fruit comparison stood out to me as something so obvious, but that I hadn’t thought of before. With food, we are constantly aware of when we need to eat it by before it changes and goes bad. With large landscapes such as greenspaces, most people look forward to a season. Though a year can seem like a long time, like the wait for the leave to turn into vibrant reds and oranges, the look into the future is often limited to our lifetimes. This post has made me wonder what my city will look like in 5 years and even 50 or more. I’m sure with many places people are considering the growing population. I’m interested in more than urban growth, but how nature will have a role in the future. Will there be new trees? A push for urban gardens? It’d be interesting to examine how the cities will spread and grow as the result of the demands/needs of each population. <br />Emma Crevelinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01278525504069938764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-33868588941117308042018-11-28T12:05:19.393-08:002018-11-28T12:05:19.393-08:00The main point I took from the post Change Over Ti...The main point I took from the post Change Over Time is that urban ecology will not always remains the same. As we think about improving our life styles from the present, the ideal of changing in our lives also impact environment by changes in the landscape. The urban landscape at certain time needs upgrade, build new different structures, (like airports, sport stadiums, schools, and so on), or a different transformation of urban ecologies, planting trees or constructing other roads over the existed ones or ideal of beautifying outdoor recreational areas. Nature introduced us to natural geology, Changes in landscape helps us live better.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02579578590788252536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3361137256121620055.post-75422335235277367122018-11-28T11:42:29.995-08:002018-11-28T11:42:29.995-08:00This post pulled me out of my default mode of thin...This post pulled me out of my default mode of thinking that urban environments are “finished” when the building stops. Just today I visited the Louvre museum in Paris and have read that it’s foundations were laid as a castle in the 12th century, later built up as a palace for French kings and then finally into it’s current museum. This really helped to bring home this idea. I remember learning in IS470 that when archaeologists discover a new site they are sometimes reluctant to work the entire site right away as they would like to preserve some of it ,in tact, for future archaeologists who could use newer, as yet unknown, techniques. Maybe we can also purposefully leave “room” in some architecture for future architects to enhance with new ideas by making designs more modular and easily separable. A lot like designing commercial products to be easily broken down into constituent elements for repair, recycling or reclamation.Frank Russohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11885310777823509630noreply@blogger.com