NDLI: Glacier, Plaza, and Garden: Ecological Collaboration and Didacticism in Three Canadian Landscapes

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Glacier, Plaza, and Garden: Ecological Collaboration and Didacticism in Three Canadian Landscapes

Content Provider	MDPI
Author	Hammond, Cynthia
Copyright Year	2021
Description	The emphasis in landscape studies on human agency and needs can obscure the complex relationships between non-human living things and their animate and inanimate contexts. Diverse authors have pointed out that this anthropocentric outlook is problematic, destructive, and neo-colonial. How might it be possible to approach a landscape, i.e., land itself, and all that lives on it, in a way that foregrounds the realities and risks of that site, without falling back on familiar humanistic and anthropocentric tropes? In this essay, I explore three recent artworks that each engage with a different landscape: Requiem for a Glacier by artist and composer Paul Walde (2013); the Urban Prairie designed by landscape architects Claude Cormier + Associés (2012); and The Boreal Poetry Garden by visual artist Marlene Creates (born 2005-). By analyzing these artists’ and designers’ creative strategies in relation to these landscapes, I delve into the question of ecological collaboration in each project, and explore the ways in which the non-human aspects of the landscape do, or do not, take centre stage. In so doing, this essay has a second aim: to explore the extent to which, in performing a didactic relationship with their sites, these three projects contribute to an activist and pedagogical ethos around climate change, habitat, and ecology.
Starting Page	5729
e-ISSN	20711050
DOI	10.3390/su13105729
Journal	Sustainability
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	13
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2021-05-20
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Sustainability Cultural Studies Landscapes Art Landscape Design Didacticism Anthropocentrism Ecology Eco-didacticism
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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