Landscape architecture's fundamental task is to uncover and develop the specificity of a site. SPECIFICS emphasizes the differences of qualities of a location and invites to focus and concentrate on significant strategies for research and teaching in view of recent insights and global developments. In this book, scientists, planners, landscape architects, architects, artists, engineers, officials and students from around the world present and discuss innovative approaches and future developments in thinking and designing Landscape within research, teaching, planning and construction. SPECIFICS presents the proceedings of the 2013 conference of the same name hosted by ECLAS - The European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools - and the HafenCity University. These proceedings contain over 60 papers from the conference panels: Who owns the landscape? Nature happened yesterday Best practice landscape architecture Landscape and structures Events and conversionall forming the current state of the research and discourse in these topics.

Die originäre Aufgabe der Landschaftsarchitektur ist die Freilegung und Entwicklung der spezifischen Charakteristik eines Ortes. SPECIFICS thematisiert die qualitativen Unterschiede einzelner Orte und lädt dazu ein, maßgebliche Forschungs- und Lehrstrategien im Kontext neuester Erkenntnisse und globaler Entwicklungen kennenzulernen. In diesem Buch präsentieren und diskutieren Wissenschaftler, Landschaftsarchitekten, Künstler und Ingenieure aus der ganzen Welt innovative Herangehensweisen und zukünftige Entwicklungen im gedanklichen und entwerferischen Umgang mit Landschaft im Rahmen von Forschung, Lehre und Praxis. SPECIFICS stellt die Beiträge der gleichnamigen Konferenz vor, die 2013 von ECLAS – dem European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools – und der HafenCity Universität veranstaltet wurde. Der Tagungsbericht umfasst über 60 Beiträge aus den Konferenzforen
›› Natur war gestern
›› Wem gehört die Landschaft?
›› Beste Praktiken innerhalb der Landschaftsarchitektur
›› Landschaft und Infrastrukturen
›› Events und ihre Folgen
und umreißt den aktuellen Stand von Forschung und Diskurs zu diesen Themen.

Frontmatter -- CONTENT -- Author List -- Introduction -- Introduction by the President of ECLAS -- The Experiment “SPECIFICS” -- “SPECIFICS” as forum for interdisciplinary landscape research -- The Paradoxes of Peer-Review (for Landscape Architecture) -- Nightfall -- In Fact Nature -- NIGHTFALL, USA 2011, 97 min. -- All of Life is Memory -- Landscape at Work Some thoughts on James Benning’s film Nightfall -- Nature Happened Yesterday -- Nature versus Culture -- Comment by Michaela Ott -- Designing nature as infrastructure—a profession looking for new metaphors for its relation with nature -- Walking Narratives: Interacting Between Urban Nature And Self -- Nature or Culture, the Wrong Question: Freeing Landscape from its Silos -- Timescapes. Non-geographical approaches to landscape -- The Human Existence between Nature and Artifact -- Design with Nature -- Comment by Angelus Eisinger -- Teaching Interdisciplinary Sustainability: Probing Traditional Design/Build Education -- Process, Utility and Strategy; Designing with Plant Materials in an Uncertain World -- Ground As A Design Material In Landscape Architecture -- History And Historicism In Landscape Architecture -- DESIGN AND CRITICISM OF ATMOSPHERES IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE -- Back to Nature in Megacities -- Comment by Jorg Sieweke -- Traumatic Urban Landscape -- ParadoXcity Venice -- Nature by Design -- The Wilderness Downtown. The Indeterminate Nature of Johannesburg’s Mine Dumps -- Who owns the Landscape? -- The Right to Green. Practicing Spatial Justice -- The Right to Landscape -- Comment by Elke Krasny -- Transgressive Urbanism Borderla nds and Urban Informality of American Cities along the Pan-American Highway -- The right to commemorate and the role of la ndscape architecture—Case Utøya in Norway -- Landscape , Democracy, and the Right to Landscape -- RETHINKING LANDSCAPE. RETHINKING VALUE -- COmmunal Landscapes at Risk -- Comment by Elke Krasny -- VITAMIN “G” A STUDY ON EGYPTIAN SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION -- URBAN AGRICULTURE IN VILA NOV A DE GAIA: THE NURTURING SYMBIOSIS -- MEANWHILE SPACES -- THE LIFE AND (PREVENTABLE) DEATH OF THE KIBBUTZ COMMUNAL LANDSCAPE -- Landscape Planning -- Food Traditions and Landscapes — Do They Own Each Other? -- Landscape, Livability and Happiness in Regional Development and Landscape Planning -- NEEDS HERITAGE A MUSEUM? ON TRANSFORMATION, CONSERVATION AND PERSISTENCE IN THE UNESCO-LANDSCAPE HALLSTATT -DACHSTEIN -- Make-ability 2.0 The Power and Resilience of Landscape Frameworks -- UASI—Urban Agriculture Spatial Index -- Green Infrastructures -- FROM GREENBELT TO INFRABELT—LONDON’S GREEN BELT AS MODEL FOR A SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE? -- Activate Urban Landscape Networks: Regional Park RheinMain—Next steps -- LANDSCHAFTSZUG DESSAU— AN EMERGING COLLABORATIVE LANDSCAPE -- Communicating Nature Values in Urban Green Structure Planning. Case Studies from Norway -- A Multifunctional Analysis of Open Space Ownership and Use in the City of Vancouver, Canada -- Best Practice Landscape Architecture -- Fundamentals -- Comment by Udo Weilacher -- Applying the Eclas Guidance on Landscape Architecture: Reflections from Recent Experience in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region -- RE-VISITING BEST PRACTICE: INVESTIGATING PLACE EXPERIENCE IN THE NEXUS OF THEORY AND DESIGN -- Disseminating Landscape Architectural Specificity on the Global Stage -- The fabrication of heroes in landscape architecture -- Is there a Design Theory? -- Comment by Udo Weilacher -- Is There A “Design Science” in the Context of Landscape Architecture? -- The Grid And The Non-Hierarchical Field: Peter Walker And Minimalist Landscape Architecture -- A Drawing For Learning—Learning By Drawing -- Evidence of Action: Towards an Ecology Of Objects -- Teaching Time—On the practice of landscape la boratories -- Landscape Architecture Heritage -- Comment by Karsten Jørgensen -- What Visions Guide Us When We Seek to Preserve and Cherish

Landscape architecture’s fundamental task is to uncover and develop the specificity of a site. SPECIFICS emphasizes the differences of qualities of a location and invites to focus and concentrate on significant strategies for research and teaching in view of recent insights and global developments. In this book, scientists, planners, landscape architects, architects, artists, engineers, officials and students from around the world present and discuss innovative approaches and future developments in thinking and designing Landscape within research, teaching, planning and construction. SPECIFICS presents the proceedings of the 2013 conference of the same name hosted by ECLAS - The European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools - and the HafenCity University. These proceedings contain over 60 papers from the conference panels:
›› Who owns the landscape?
›› Nature happened yesterday
›› Best practice landscape architecture
›› Landscape and structures
›› Events and conversion
all forming the current state of the research and discourse in these topics.