Landscape dialogue and the design response

Cory Parker

Landscape Research, 2025, vol. 50, issue 6, 1085-1097

Abstract: Research in landscape design, and the process of design itself, often rest on a foundation of site analysis—the inventory and evaluation of distinct landscape processes. With its focus on property and landscape categories, site analysis struggles to accommodate the complex web of dynamic relations within the landscape. Alternative frameworks for landscape evaluation rooted in phenomenology or social construction do not adequately address change over time. How does our experience of a place inform our understanding of its underlying processes? Using the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, I argue that the process of evaluation is best described as a dialogue with the landscape. Dialogue begins with listening to the landscape as something we inhabit, something we evaluate as part of ongoing social and environmental conversations. Design and representation then speak back to the landscape, a response and a responsibility. This has implications for research as understanding a place comes from multiple immersive and value-laden methods.

Date: 2025
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