2009-2010 CELA Conference
Conference theme:
LANDSCAPE LEGACY: Landscape Architecture between Art and Science
Both in Europe and North America, landscape architecture has evolved from multiple origins. As an applied vocation, landscape architecture can trace origins to gardening and to production agriculture such as horticulture and forestry. In addition, and on both continents, landscape architecture has been defined partly by the scale of projects it embraces.
Its origins also have been reflected in the institutions of higher education which have propelled landscape architecture into an increasingly global and regulated profession. In some academic institutions, for example, landscape architecture has come to exist in natural resource units while others have been equally successful residing in centers of design. In fact, a goal of the accrediting process in North America is to encourage uniqueness in the origins and methods used to teach landscape architecture.
The result is that landscape architecture exists today as a broad profession and academic discipline covering varied geographical scales and both rural and urban spheres. In this mix, design, planning and research have evolved hand-in-hand, setting-up a structure for generating knowledge by sustaining links between academic and non-academic practice. What remains constant is the tension between the artistic and the scientific dimensions as well as the necessity to find equilibrium between knowledge and action.
CELA and ISOMUL have come to agree that the artistic and scientific foundations of landscape architecture are in need of clarification. The myth of creative leaps no longer suffices to satisfy questions from students, scholars, clients and the public at large. In other words, the intuitive creative processes which lead to unique models and physical solutions must be matched with outcomes grounded in the rules and principles of physical and social science, so that risk is minimized and quality outcomes are optimized. How this duality between art and science affects teaching, research and practice is the focus of the 2010 conference.
Careful scrutiny of best practices in landscape architecture and landscape planning from a comparative perspective seems to be an adequate means to make a contribution to the knowledge stock and to the body of design and planning theory. Landscape architecture and landscape planning are judged by the impact they make in action.
Thus, landscape architects leave an imprint in the human environment. This we call legacy. Legacy, meaning the systematic measurement of the impact of what landscape architects and landscape planners do, is the subtheme of this conference. The conference planning committee is convinced that teachers, researchers and practitioners can better contribute to building the body of knowledge in our fields by encouraging documentation, speculation and interpretation of the activities of individuals, teams and institutions.
How we do this, and when, are topics the 2010 CELA / ISOMUL conference wants to bring forth. To accomplish this, the conference is encouraging each presenter to include a statement on the legacy of his or her work as it applies to the body of knowledge, as they see it.
The main theme of the conference will be further regarded under the 10 track format which CELA uses to categorize all abstracts for its annual conferences. Additions or modifications to these tracks may be proposed depending on deliberations of the conference planning committee. The CELA tracks are:
- Research and design (theme track)
- Service learning and Community engagement
- Design education and pedagogy
- Sustainability
- History, theory and culture
- Communications and visualization
- Landscape planning and ecology
- Environment and human behavior
- Urban design
- Design implementation
- Methods of inquiry
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Please submit your completed abstracts to Janet Singer, Executive Director, at
abstracts@telepath.com.
Thank You.