writings
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Over het liminale:
The centre can(not) hold Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. (fragment uit: Yeats, the second coming) Naar aanleiding van dit fragment…
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Een verbreding van de ziel in Ruimtelijke kwaliteit
column voor MooiNL Onbedoeld zijn de drie waarden die #ruimtelijkeordening hanteert voor Ruimtelijke kwaliteit een erfenis van wat tegenwoordig wordt aangeduid als ‘een koloniaal verleden’ door de invloed van de militaire Romeinse overheersing en de heropleving ervan via het neoclassicisme van de renaissance. De officiële status van Ruimtelijke kwaliteit volgens deze drieslag in Nederland met de Vierde…
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Er is zoveel gemaakt dat relevant is
bekijk alle nieuwsbrieven van de afgelopen 7 jaar struin door al het onderzoek dat is gepubliceerd
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Een mythe ontrafeld: wat is subliem en hoe ontwerp je het?
Originally posted on Landscape Machines – Design Laboratory: ? ? ? Uitnodiging / Invitation Verdediging / Public defence 14 maart 2018 16:00 start verdediging / defence 17:30 receptie / 18:30 last drinks Aula Generaal Foulkesweg 1 6703 BG Wageningen ? Voor een Nederlandstalige website met een samenvatting van de onderzoeksresultaten ga naar: https://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/shades-of-sublime NB! werkt…
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PhD on the (landscape) sublime
Historically, the idea of the sublime is often associated with grand and astounding natural scenery. This thesis investigates a twenty-first century idea of the sublime that includes dissonant phenomena such as extreme weather conditions due to climate change. The subject of the sublime is symbolic of how unprepared the general audience is for dealing with…
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New Zealand Design
density map of the invisible city at a new harbour mouth; Ellie Helliwell Here is a web-log to the summerschool in New Zealand that was created by students and supervised by me, Mick Abbott, Tenille Pickett and Woody Lee http://www.new-sea-land.com And this is an abstract of the content: Landscape architecture has a speculative role in…
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Fourth (and last) letter on the sublime (introducing the Zen perspective)
‘Ningyo’ (Mermaid) by Katsushika Hokusai (1808) credits: many thanks to Derek Middleton, the language editor of all four letters Kyoto, Japan, February 2008 Highly esteemed Mister Venturous, Mister Criterion and dear Nana, dear future reader, It has been 269, 119 and 89 years since you wrote your letters. With great humbleness and respect…
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third letter on the sublime (30 years later)
And here is, for the month of May, the third letter on the sublime. How the world has changed in no more than 30 years since the previous letter! I must warn readers, this letter introduces an awkward direction for the idea of the sublime, away from wilderness and landscape romance. Into the realm of…
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second letter on the sublime (150 years later)
This month, you can read the second letter on the sublime. You will notice it still bears the familiar voice of a romantic type of sublime. Although, the tone and urgency of the idea of the sublime is changing. By the third letter (next month), the tipping point will have passed and the idea of…
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back after the break: four letters on the sublime
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains gutenberg.org All landscape architects, somehow, have to handle an implicit tendency for grandeur madness. After a short break, I have now returned for some monthly blogging. My current sabbatical has made me more conscious about more than one essential aspect of life, foremost about being sociable.…
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