Constructed Ecologies: Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design
May 06, 2019
3 minutes
Text Jacky Bowring
Landscape architecture needs a wake-up call. And Margaret Grose’s book Constructed Ecologies: Critical Reflections on offers a vigorous shake-up that is unflinching in its challenges to the profession. The chapter headings alone read as a series of imperatives for how we need to shift our practice and our research: “Global differences, not universals,” “Shifting adaptabilities, not static concepts,” “Multiple, not solo voices,” “Inquiries, not assumptions” and “Thinking backwards, not forwards as a linear narrative.”
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