Dee, C., 2004, The imaginary texture of the real…Critical visual studies in landscape architecture: contexts, foundation and approaches., in: Landscape Research, 29, 1
- Author : Dee, C.
- Year : 2004
- Journal/Series : Landscape Research
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 1
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 29
- Pages : 13-30
- Abstract in English : The aim of this essay is to discuss the potential for new kinds of visual research methods and communication in landscape architectural research. The author has termed this work ‘critical visual studies’. A critical visual study is one in which imagery is employed both as method to investigate and as form to communicate a research study. While post-modern thinkers have opened the way for much more diverse approaches to research and its communication, and researches have stared to look critically at the practice/theory divide, the visual still has a curiously low profile in landscape, geographical and architectural studies. The reasons for a neglect of imagery in research publications and the gap between landscape architecture practice and theory are considered, and the ways in which this restricts understanding are explored. The author suggest that visual studies can be used to bridge the practice-theory and enable investigations which are currently limited or absent in text-based methods and dissemination. This paper defines five kinds of visual study and discuses their philosophical and methodological underpinnings and potential.
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: landscape architecture, landscape design, visual studies, drawing, visual thinking, theory and practice. UTILITY: lecturers/teachers, academic research, students of universities of professional education.