I like the sound of falling water, it's calming
Engineering Sensory Experiences Through Landscape Architecture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2406323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Casper Laing Ebbensgaard (0000-0002-3926-0702, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 441-455 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-4740 • E-ISSN: 1477-0881 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474474017698719 |
| OpenAlex | W2604916395 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Post-industrial wastelands have been given increased attention by landscape architects since the late 1990s. Through their redesign, landscape architects argue that the sensory qualities of wild nature benefit people’s health and well-being and improve the urban ecosystem. In this article, I argue that such landscape designs mark a shift from designing nature as such to designing the sensation of nature. By following discussions within cultural geography on landscape design, affect and emotion, I scrutinise how landscape design orchestrates the sensation of nature. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two recent landscape designs – the ‘High Line’ in New York City and the Copenhagen plaza ‘Under the Crystal’ – I show how the landscapes orchestrate sounds, smells, tactilities and views by accommodating seasonal change, succession and local weather conditions and by staging elements such as plants, water, fauna and sky. The engineering of such natural processes and sensory qualities is argued to complicate the ways landscape design mediates sensory experiences and performative practices in the city. I therefore call for geographers to pay greater attention to the subtleties that lie in such orchestration in order to better account for the ways that landscapes come to produce their affects
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Civil engineering · Landscape architecture · Landscape design · Natural (archaeology · Natural landscape · Performative utterance · Sociology · Sound (geography · Soundscape · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Urban Green Space and Health
Pastoralism, nature and golf
Cultivating learning among the gardens of Irvine
Temporary reuse in leftover spaces through the preferences of the elderly
Interim reuse in urban derelicts
Phenomenographies
Reimagining landscape
The Feel of the Stones, Sounds of Cars, the Different Smells
Sonic geographies
Reckoning with landscape tensions, reflecting on creative methodologies
| Citations per year | 1.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |