LED Seminar 2016 - Landscape Symbols Reflection Group G
Landscape Symbol 1- Landscape Symbols As, Tonje Cecilie Stordalen
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Reflections
Please write a 250 words text reflecting on the following questions, you can also take ideas from your group members into account
- How and why did the symbols you identify appear in your landscape?
- Did their meaning change along with socio-political, economic, environmental or cultural changes in your region, or country?
- What do these symbols mean to you today? Are they meaningful to more than just one cultural group? Are they shared across cultures?
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Landscape Symbol 2- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sharla Russell
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Reflections
Please write a 250 words text reflecting on the following questions, you can also take ideas from your group members into account
- How and why did the symbols you identify appear in your landscape?
- Did their meaning change along with socio-political, economic, environmental or cultural changes in your region, or country?
- What do these symbols mean to you today? Are they meaningful to more than just one cultural group? Are they shared across cultures?
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Landscape Symbol 3- Glasgow Tenements, Amber Roberts
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Reflections
Glasgow's Tenements
The class-neutral tenements of Glasgow symbolise the ideals of Scottish socialism, standing in stark contrast to the strict class delineations of England's housing typology. As a new resident in Scotland I am keen to explore this point of difference in the 'everyday landscape' of Glasgow and its permutations through the tenement street that foregoes traditional centralised urban form and hierarchical street types, instead following a rigid and decentralised grid-iron pattern. Throughout the past century the tenements have become synonymous with Glasgow while the initial ideals they represented changed repeatedly through associations with rebellion and protest. At the same time the tenements continue to form the backdrop to the daily lives of the majority of the city's residents throughout the social classes.
How and why the symbols appeared in the landscape
The tenements of Glasgow were largely built between 1850 and 1900 to house the city's growing population. They enveloped the city centre and grew outwards into the surrounding districts and hills following a strict grid formation that makes overt their origination as planned neighbourhoods. Along with the grid pattern, strict rules governed the height and proportions of the buildings in relation to the streets upon which they stood - as such no tenement building could exceed in height the width of the street, ensuring natural light was able to reach each street, while giving Glasgow a distinctive low rise yet high density aesthetic. Each block had a decoratively tiled communal 'close' (or central hallway) through which to access the residencies inside, a communal garden with a courtyard type layout walled on each side by the tenements, a clothes drying area and refuse space. These elements created a distinctive built layout and urban form while encouraging sociality and community spirit between residents and neighbours.
Everyone is Equal But Some Are More Equal Than Others While the tenements presented a class neutral ideology, social hierarchies were formed and displayed through various means. (-to add photographs). While the working class tenements were formed of singular roomed flats, the scale of comfort and adequacy increased along social ranks. As such, the tenements ranged from single rooms up to mansion sized flats overlooking private greens and parklands. Class was also made visible from the street level through the decoration of the communal 'close', the size of front doors, the presence of front gardens and stairs leading up to the entrances, and the architectural style of the facade (the wealthiest replicating Georgian/ 18th Century English styles and materials).
How meanings have changed -to complete Slums/ Bomb Damage/ Govan Riots/ Working Class image/ Retaliation against traditional styles
What the tenements mean today -to complete Tenement House - Museum / 'Everyday Landscape'/ Home/ Human scale environment/ Trendy/
Landscape Symbol 4-7000 Eichen Kassel, Linda Rehn
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Reflections
The basalt stone can be found next to a tree,usually an oak. Overall the city were 7000 Oaks for each basalt stone planted. This ensemble is titled “7000 Oaks - urban forestation instead of city administration”, and is a landscape art work of the artist Joseph Beuys. 1982, at the start the documenta 7, Beuys put 7000 basalt columns as a wedge-shaped delta on the Friedrichsplatz in front of the Fridericianum in Kassel which is a major place and building. At its peak, Beuys planted the first oak next to their associated basalt stone. The basalt plastic acts according to Beuys as an indicator of progress. The more trees have been planted in Kassel, the smaller the plastic. "Not building, not dismantling, but both at the same function". Everyone who donated $ 500, was allowed to remove a block of basalt and for planting elsewhere an oak tree, which then the respective block of stone was delivered. In 1987, the extensive project documentation was completed. The project was an extensive artistic and ecological intervention with the aim of changing the urban environment sustainably in terms of overall urbanization. The initially controversial project has evolved into a townscape part of the public space of the city of Kassel, and witness the "expanded concept of art" developed by Joseph Beuys. The as "social sculpture" marked artwork engages sustainable in the topographical and social structure of the city, it also committed to active care and kept alive in this way. In Kassel in 1993 also the club founded "7000 Oaks", who has made the protection and care of trees to the task. About the effects Rhea Thönges-Stringaris (Kassel) wrotes: There is hardly anyone in Kassel who met Beuys trees in Avenue rows or squares. We have become accustomed to them. They are part of our daily life and at the same time components of an unusual, because ultimately invisible sculpture. No one can ever see as a whole. A sculpture in the traditional sense, without outlines, is unthinkable. But outlines of the 7000 Oaks are not even tangible on paper or on a map. The landscape architect John Steiner in Stuttgart gathered the fruit of the oaks, put them in flower pots and outputs the resulting growing plants (project Eichenfeldstraße - Getting younger generation). Olaf-Axel Burow and the project group Future Moderation Kassel University initiated in 2002 under the Kassler Application for European Capital of Culture a project with the motto 7000 characters in terms of Beuys Social Sculpture. The action should raise awarness about the aesthetic deep structure of the city of Kassel . On 16 March 2012, the 30th anniversary of the 7000 Oaks was celebrated and consecrated in honor of the artist Joseph Beuys a street was named after him in Kassel. This was the reason, there to add another unit of tree and stone. The Dia Center for the Arts planted in 1988 five trees, each with a basalt stone, in New York. In 1996 the work was extended with 18 new trees was. One oak basalt column was planted in the park of the government district of Düsseldorf.
Landscape Symbol 6- Guido Maria Amorati
Representations and analytical drawings
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Reflections
Please write a 250 words text reflecting on the following questions, you can also take ideas from your group members into account
- How and why did the symbols you identify appear in your landscape?
- Did their meaning change along with socio-political, economic, environmental or cultural changes in your region, or country?
- What do these symbols mean to you today? Are they meaningful to more than just one cultural group? Are they shared across cultures?
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Landscape Symbol 5- Square in Iran Bahman Nahri
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Group reflection
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