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LandscapeintheFieldandtheArchive
SarahMeadLeonardGardenandLandscapeStudiesJuniorFellow,DumbartonOaks
PhDCandidateinArtHistory,UniversityofDelaware
Aninterdisciplinaryfieldfocusedonsitesasobjectsofstudy.
Drawsonmethodsandinterestsofmanyothertraditions,including:archaeology,history,humangeography,gardenhistory,historyofartanddesign,materialculture– andnaturalhistory.
WhatisLandscapeStudies? WhatisLandscape?
”Anareaoflandasperceivedbypeople.”
EuropeanLandscapeConvention,Florence,2000.
“Awayofseeing.”
DenisCosgrove,SocialFormation&SymbolicLandscape,1985.
BirchenEdge,PeaksDistrict,Derbyshire
LandscapeStudiesintheField
BirchenEdge,PeaksDistrict,Derbyshire
• Howhasthislandscapechangedovertime?Whatinformationhasbeenlostinthosechanges?
• Whocontrolsthisland?Whyhavetheymadethechoicestheydid?• Whoworkstheland?Wholiveshere?• Howdolocalcommunitiesrespondtothesesitesandtochangesinthesesites?
• Howisthislandscapeinterpretedculturally,byindividualsorbyagroup?
AskingQuestionsofaLandscape
• Maps• Landdocuments• Aerialphotography• Sitephotography• Othersiteimages– paintings,prints,drawings.• Archaeologicalstudies,HistoricEnglandandNationalTrustrecords,VictoriaCountyHistories,localhistories,etc.
LandscapeResearchResources
Bishopbarns, York, UK. Ordnance Survey (OS) Maps, Country Series 1:2500.Left: 1909, First RevisionRight: 1937, Third Revision
Prehistoric settlements near Eynsham, Oxfordshire and Lansallos, Cornwall.(Damian Grady/Historic England)
A new prehistoric henge discovered at Brú na Bóinne, Ireland. (Anthony Murphy)
Victorian garden at Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire. (South West News Service)
Dante Gabriel RossettiWater Willow, 1871Delaware Art Museum
TeachingtheLandscape
• What'shere?• Howisthisspaceused?• Isthereclearperiodization?Whendotheythinkfeatureswereaddedorchanged?
• Howdotheyexperienceit?
ObservationandCloseLooking
• Howhasthislandscapechangedovertime?• Whocontrolsthisland?Whyhavetheymadethechoicestheydid?• Howisthelandmanaged,andbywhom?• Whousesit,andhow?• Howisthislandscapeinterpretedculturally?• Whovaluesit,andhow?
LandscapeResearchQuestions
• Whoandwhatismissing?Whatlandscapestoriesareorarenottold?Why?