Transforming post-industrial landscapes into urban parks: Design strategies and theory in Seoul, 1998–present

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 102023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myeong-Jun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Urban Parks ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Industrial Landscapes ◽  
Post Industrial

Two familiar paths well-travelled

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Darwell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Dog Owners ◽  
Industrial Landscapes ◽  
Post Industrial

In this chapter photographer John Darwell, reminds us that big environmental issues and Homo sapiens’s problematic response to them are also evident in the mundane experience of our day-to-day environment. Darwell, who until fairly recently had based his photographic practice on post-industrial landscapes of Sheffield and Manchester, and the area around Chernobyl, has now turned his attention to the ‘edgeland’ of his twice-daily dog walks. This immersion in the landscape throws up new subjects for his work. One aspect that stands out is the phenomenon of discarded dog-shit bags. Dog owners have taken the trouble to clean up after their pets, but then discard the bags by hanging them in trees or just throwing them away. Bringing photographic aesthetics to what is a disturbing subject has allowed him to develop a typology of this practice. While we may prefer to look away, these images do pose big questions for environmentalists. How can we solve the big issues of climate change and loss of biodiversity, if we can’t even carry through to its conclusion this modest attempt not to despoil the environment?

The Post-Industrial Landscapes of Central Urals, Russia: Heritage Value, Tourist Potential, and Unrealized Opportunities

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203
Author(s):  
E. Givental ◽  
A. V. Stepanov ◽  
M. Yu. Ilyushkina ◽  
A. S. Burnasov
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Landscapes ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Central Urals

scholarly journals Angels, warriors, and beacons: Totemic law, territorial coding, and monumental sculpture in post-industrial landscapes

Semiotica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (216) ◽  
pp. 225-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnie Lippens
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Monumental Sculpture ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Industrial Landscapes ◽  
Post Industrial

AbstractNational or local authorities regularly commission artists to build or construct sculptures and artworks destined for a place in a public space. Some of those sculptures and artworks are monumentally huge. Positioned in the open landscape, they are visible from a considerable distance. This contribution focuses on three such sculptures in the United Kingdom. The first, “Angel of the North,” was completed in 1998 and is standing at Gateshead in the North East of England. The second, “Anglo Saxon Warrior,” has not yet been built to a massive scale – although smaller, life-size versions were – but some debate has taken place in Stoke-on-Trent in North Staffordshire in the West Midlands about the possibility and remote likelihood of its construction. The third, “Golden,” is, however, at the time of writing, in the process of being assembled with an eye on erecting it, in 2014, at the very same location, Stoke-on-Trent. Proposals for all aforementioned artworks emerged against the backdrop of regional de-industrialization and were, at least partly, devised as an answer to economic and social deprivation in both regional localities. In this contribution an effort is made to tease out the symbolic intricacies embedded in all three artworks. Although all include references to what could be called the eternal origins of a mythical common law universe, each suggests, projects, and attempts to encode a moral and legal order in quite distinctly different ways.

scholarly journals Ecological Design Strategies and Theory for Urban Parks in Seoul, 1990s–Present

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1163
Author(s):  
Myeong-Jun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Adaptive Design ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Ecological Processes

This study explores the characteristics of and changes in Korean landscape architects’ attitudes toward ecological design strategies and theories over the last three decades. Methodologically, this study includes a literature review and incorporates data from case studies and site visits. It discusses Seoul-specific contexts regarding environmental conditions, urban morphology, administrative agency, and design theory and practice. It redefines ecological parks, expanding their scope using physical and non-physical ecological processes. Considering this redefinition, this study categorizes the five main attitudes of contemporary Korean landscape architects towards ecological design: providing wildlife habitat, constructing aesthetic experiences, the phasing strategy, developing environmental learning programs, and designers’ metaphoric expression. Through these attitudes, this study chronologically explores gradual and constant changes in design strategies and the discourse on ecological design. Specifically, in the 1990s, landscape architects emphasized the representation of ecosystems by constructing wildlife habitats. In the early 2000s, ecological parks were artistically designed as urban parks by reusing post-industrial landscapes. Around the 2010s, landscape architects developed resilient and adaptive design strategies to flexibly respond to uncertain changes in natural and urban ecological circumstances. Since the 2010s, landscape architects have continually expanded the scope of ecology to cover physical, non-physical, urban, and social infrastructures, including public transportation, as well as political, social, and cultural structures and virtual and augmented landscapes. This study can contribute to the field literature while adding a valuable overview of the understudied Korean context.

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