fall 2015
Stephanie White David Birchall
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introduction Calgary, Alberta Sound drawings Leicester, Skipton, Edale, UK
public opinion, civic uses of land tied to social systems, changing land use definitions as demographics and social attitudes change
Nora Wendl Heather Dunbar and Xiaowei Wang Dustin Valen
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Pruitt-Igoe, tomorrow St Louis, Missouri Pruitt-Igoe now still St Louis, Missouri Bad behaviour in public parks Montreal and lots of other places Chain reaction Vancouver Island, British Columbia Ometepe Island Lago de Nicaragua Castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually Mount St Michael, Cornwall Disposessing the wilderness Parks Canada and Forillon, Quebec Our national landscape Urban Canada Ghosts Tooele County, Utah Lost in the empty Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan Assimilation Kalahari Desert, South Africa Under cover of green Sudbury, Ontario Gazing at a regreened landscape Laurentian University , Sudbury Holes and heaps Le Bassin Minier, northern France Landscape noir Laos Form on the frontier Korea’s DMZ Planespotting, the Kai Tak project Hong Kong Viable landscapes Akamina Parkway, Waterton Lakes National Park Trollstigen Visitor Centre Romsdalen-Geiranger fjord, Norway Listening to landscapes Crowsnest Pass, Alberta Oil City Waterton, Alberta Walking and narrative Inner geographies, the Aarhus drawing Aarhus/Copenhagen, Denmark
the remediated landscapes of mining, war and detente – each has left a damaged land which, through sheer necessity, is reclaimed, reforested and brought into the present with great love and hope the vast spaces of deserts, military sites, and national parks. Are these spaces any less complex than our busy urban landscapes? mapping and being: why are some places beautiful, what do we think about them as we draw them, photograph them and document their ephemerality and their sometimes difficult histories
Tim Sharp Novka Cosovic Graham Hooper
Desirée Valadares Matthew Neville Sara Jacobs
Lindsey Nette Dillon Marsh
Leanna Lalonde David Fortin Ruth Oldham Xiaoxuan Lu Mike Taylor
protective infrastructure: it’s a dangerous place out there. How do we make nature palatable, less threatening, less likely to crash down on our heads
Dominique Cheng Michael Leeb Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter Stephanie White
landscapes understood by the foot, which walks them, and by the hand, which draws them
Michael Leeb Alec Spangler Troels Steenholdt Heiredal
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