Future Landscapes Group 5

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Core Questions

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In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes?

Comment to work of Kassel from Montevideo: The necessity of food production in a country with limited tillable land makes that a simple rice paddy, being just a cultivable territory, becomes part of the cultural identity of China and transforms itself in a possible target-landscape for the nation.

Comment to work of Tartu from Montevideo: The Independence Square in Tallinn is a typical example for an urban space with an important history and which needs to connect different parts of the city. As far as society needs a place which represents it, these squares will be part of our future landscape.

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What is the role of landscape architecture in this project?

Comment to work of Kassel from Montevideo: The Shenyang Architectural University Campus in China is a very good example for the study of a case that soon will be a problem for all the world. Thought in these terms, it is clear that for the concept of landscape the aesthetic component would not be so much important. A landscape architecture ought to redefine its role towards this situation.

Comment to work of Tartu from Montevideo: Just in September 2010 a group of architects won the architectural competition for the redesign of our Independence Square in Montevideo. Citizens of Montevideo are now looking at the plans. And many people say: Who did ask us what we wanted? And we ask you, if the problems with the Statue of Liberty in the Square of Tallinn did not happen because people were not consulted before the redesign. Maybe the role of a landscape architect in such a project should consider the public consultation like in the Punta Yeguas Park.

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Comparative Analysis

• Which major similarities and differences could you identify in those two case studies?

In our group, three cases focus on totelly different aspects.The difference between three cases are much more obvious and worth identifing.So we collect the differences and compare them from six aspects. Especially, when put the attributes of one case to another, it inspires much more.(concept map)

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  difference identitied by the cases study

Synthesis and Outlook

When we had to face the issue of future landscapes, we tried to identify first the changes, or what we also can call the new challenges. Then we indicated how the landscape reacted facing all these challenges. With all these inputs we illustrated how our future landscape should be. This helped us to make the conclusions after our three case studies (concept map).

The case studies we show, do not represent exactly the future landscapes we desire, because they do not represent all the aspects we are looking for, such as economical, natural, aesthetic, cultural, rural, and so on.

We selected each case, because we think that every case represents a very important issue to integrate in future landscape planning:

In Punta Yeguas Park: the active participation of citizens in the planning of landscape

In Shenyang Campus: the focus on survival issue

In the Square of Tallinn: the importance of cultural heritage

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  Punta Yeguas Park introduction

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  Shenyang Architectural University Campus introduction

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  Vabaduse Väljak (Independence Square) in Tallinn introduction

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  compare

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  future landscape

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