© Cambridge University Press 2004 and Cambridge University Press 2009. Therefore, any attempt to definitively date when humans first conceived of nature as diverse is doomed to fail: we live from and within the world of diversity and we are a part of that totality. So, biodiversity is a contraction of biological diversity, A rough idea of biological diversity, and thereby of biodiversity, has existed in the human mind ever since evolution endowed our hominid ancestors in the phylogenetic tree with adequate cognitive abilities, in particular that of classification. The conference, the National Forum on BioDiversity, was held in Washington, D.C., in September 1986 and the proceedings of this meeting were also titled Biodiversity (Wilson 1988). Rosen coined it while planning a conference that aimed to bring together what was known about the state of biological diversity on Earth (Wilson 1988, vi). It is a neologism, dating back to 1985 when Dr. The emergence of the term from the discipline of conservation biology is well documented in current history (see Takacs 1996). And eventually, the author proposes 'multiplicity' of nature, replacing conventional concept of singular nature, to mobilize the location of this discipline and to project the possibility of new core ground beyond the existing theoretical gravity.īIODIVERSITY IN THE HUMAN MIND: Biodiversity is peculiar in the sense of being both novel and traditional at the same time.
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Third, it articulates three series of 'The-Idea-of-Nature' and the trans-disciplinary productions derived from each idea within a theoretical terrain of landscape architecture. Second, it investigates the evolving role of collaboration in contemporary Dutch landscape architectural context with the comparison to American modernist approaches to legitimate the trans-disciplinary mechanism. First, it traces the canonical influence of Picturesque aesthetics as an agency to confirm the trans-disciplinary work at around-Olmsted period. The ambition of this paper is to theorize the possibilities of trans-disciplinary landscape architecture with the following three perspectives.
The increasing complexity of design disciplines expects new theoretical contribution to re-examine the territory of their own practice. Keywords: ecological design, landscape architecture, Idea of nature,īiodiversity, ecological processes, succession. Of processes occurring in the landscape or garden become the only way toĪcknowledge and represent the passage of time. Process, in landscape in particular, since all theses processes take place in a timeįrame that exceeds our contact with the landscape. Second question: the problem of the representation of the time involved in any
This is the nature that is implied in ecological engineering and in design based Process, sometimes irrespective of the species or number of species involved. The second conceptualization of nature, nature can be understood as a force, a Gardens, long before the present legitimate interest in promoting biodiversity. And in fact, growing a collection of plant taxons, whetherĭisplayed formally or informally, has been very much part of the history of AĬollection of taxons, that is specie and cultivar richness, is readily visible and Of biodiversity implies interventions akin to gardening, designing withīiodiversity is very much compatible with garden and landscape design. In fact, in the same way that conservation
Of biodiversity), to ideas of nature as process (a nature of ecosystems, energy ResearchersĪs well as philosophers who have studied ecological concepts, theories andĬonservation practices contrast ideas of nature as a collection of objects (a nature Which landscape designers are working is manifold in its expression. With nature paradigm in landscape architecture. Two conceptual problems can be identified with the ecological design/design
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