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Penny Allan and Andrew Toland
Landscape architects are faced with a challenge when they work with big landscapes: there is so much data available – almost too much. And while software allows a focus on the metrics of landscape systems, it is not particularly useful in communicating the sense of what is on the ground. Although GIS and aerial photography show landscapes operating as a whole interconnected system, they also create a sense of being separate or distant from what one is looking at. This can be dangerous, creating an ‘ethical thinning’, and a concomitant lack of compassion or empathy encouraging the kind of violence which allows for and, in fact, encourages exploitation. But big landscapes also encourage in us the opposite direction. They give us access to deep time and can help us feel an empathetic connection to the world. Another ‘thinning’ is thus possible, a thinning in the sense of Robert Macfarlane’s ‘thin places’ – landscape experiences in which the membrane between the everyday world and some deeper, richer, stranger and more profound experience of landscape, of time, of being, seems to flicker and dissolve.
This studio investigated these tensions in one landscape: the Sydney Basin – interesting because it operates as a geomorphological entity with an astonishing history, but also because its form, its relative flatness and scale, makes it difficult to comprehend as a coherent whole.
William Junxian Zhao