Looking for Precedents, Projects, the Experiential…

I have about a million projects going on at once and, at points, they all seem to combine.  So, if this seems a bit random… well, you know.  Studio is about projections, sound, light…  the research pseudo-paper is about the experiential in spacemaking…  of course, still looking for innovative thoughts regarding the swamp project… and HYBRIDS, hybrids, hybrids…  what the hell am I doing there?  Something with distortion of images / time / space / perspective… 

Anyway, in searching out projects to refer to in the research paper I found these through the Public Arts Review publication.  It occurs to me that landscape architecture may be going through an awkward phase.  Or, actually, has been going through an awkward phase.  The age-old question of who am I?  Are we gardeners?  Are we artists?  Are we urban planners?  Do we build structure or design around structure?  What is the role of “landscape” in landscape architecture?  What is a landscape?  Does the word carry within it some sort of problematic notion about nature and plants?

It also occurs to me that perhaps the landscape architecture program challenges the notion that getting a masters degree is more focused…  it feels more like a nexus, rather than a focus.  A place where so many fields can combine and then radiate back out.  It has room for all those questions and more answers than I care to think about.

Perhaps it should just be “spacemaking”.  But who would want a degree in that?

Edwin Redl – Matrix  http://www.paramedia.net/

Athena Tacha and awesome team – Sunbursts http://www.oberlin.edu/art/athena/tacha2.html#sunbursts (Oberlin, of course)

Max Neuhaus – Sound in Public Spaces  http://www.max-neuhaus.info/ie.htm

Dan Senn – Catacombs of Yucatan  http://www.newsense-intermedium.com/

Paul De Marinis – Firebirds http://www.thickeye.com/blog/archives/000196.html (uh, awesome)

Suzanne Lacy – http://www.suzannelacy.com/

Leni Schwendinger – Dreaming in Color http://www.lightprojectsltd.com/