Sommervorträge im IKMZ: Different logics of how to put the landscape together

Chunglin Kwa:

"DIFFERENT LOGICS OF HOW TO PUT THE LANDSCAPE TOGETHER"

The landscape is usually taken as a holistic entity. Various landscape elements are put together to form a meaningful or functional whole. However, when aerial photography developed in the 1920s, a new concept of the landscape emerged. Seen from the air, the landscape appears as fragmented, consisting of patches of a different kind, like meadows, groves and hedges. When standardly made images of large stretches of land became available, the patchy landscape acquired a status of being „mechanically objective.“ Geographers who relied on the aerial images opposed themselves to a certain school of ecologists, which was particularly strong in Germany: plant sociology. This school preferred to study the vegetation on the ground. Yet they also recognized that the landscape was patchy. But they identified the patches in a different manner: not visually, but emanating from simple numerical methods. They held up a different kind of an objective research ideal to the geographers of the aerial pictures. Reflecting on the debate between geographers and ecologists will give us an entrance into what the landscape is: as a cultural object and as a scientific object.

Please note the following dates:
14. Juni 2018, 15:30-17:00 Uhr
Ulrich Petschow
Ansätze und Strategien der Ressourcenschonung - Postwachstum als Lösung?

5. Juli 2018 16:30-18:00 Uhr
Astrid Schwarz
Überlegungen zur gegenseitigen Hervorbringung von Umwelt und technischen Objekten