TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing with Hybridity, Scalar Paradoxes, and Complex Dynamics
T2 - How Two Domestic Gardens Challenge the Contemporary Landscape Imagination
AU - Cattoor, B.
AU - Dewaelheyns, Valerie
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Belonging to the small-scale and private sphere, gardens are usually omitted from urban and regional landscape plans. Yet, we argue that the assemblage of everyday gardens – the garden complex – is an inherent component of the landscape metropolis that holds the potential to become a powerful landscape agency. This potential is enclosed, among others, within three particular qualities: hybridity, scalar paradoxes, and complex dynamics. Practicing these qualities as concepts for landscape design and analysis helps to expand the imaginaries of everyday gardens to more purposefully reflect and negotiate the condition of the landscape metropolis. By means of two case studies – two domestic gardens – we demonstrate that designing with hybridity entails versatility, simultaneity, and multiplicity, thereby engendering a richness of meaning and experiences. This pluralism is also inherent in the scalar paradoxes we observed. Cross-scalar interactions evoke design implications that transcend the confines of the private plot, surpassing individual, human gain, and making individual gardens enter into dialogue with each other and with their surroundings. Lastly, by working with an enlarged set of complex dynamics, the two case studies prove that a garden can be a driver of change and innovation, and thereby a valuable source of resilience.
AB - Belonging to the small-scale and private sphere, gardens are usually omitted from urban and regional landscape plans. Yet, we argue that the assemblage of everyday gardens – the garden complex – is an inherent component of the landscape metropolis that holds the potential to become a powerful landscape agency. This potential is enclosed, among others, within three particular qualities: hybridity, scalar paradoxes, and complex dynamics. Practicing these qualities as concepts for landscape design and analysis helps to expand the imaginaries of everyday gardens to more purposefully reflect and negotiate the condition of the landscape metropolis. By means of two case studies – two domestic gardens – we demonstrate that designing with hybridity entails versatility, simultaneity, and multiplicity, thereby engendering a richness of meaning and experiences. This pluralism is also inherent in the scalar paradoxes we observed. Cross-scalar interactions evoke design implications that transcend the confines of the private plot, surpassing individual, human gain, and making individual gardens enter into dialogue with each other and with their surroundings. Lastly, by working with an enlarged set of complex dynamics, the two case studies prove that a garden can be a driver of change and innovation, and thereby a valuable source of resilience.
KW - Complex dynamics
KW - Domestic gardens
KW - Everyday gardens
KW - Flanders
KW - Garden complex
KW - Garden design
KW - Hybridity
KW - Landscape architecture
KW - Landscape imagination
KW - Landscape metropolis
KW - Scalar paradox
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100076183&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.7480/spool.2020.1.5481
DO - 10.7480/spool.2020.1.5481
M3 - Article
SN - 2215-0897
VL - 7
SP - 53
EP - 74
JO - Spool. Journal of Architecture and the Built Environment
JF - Spool. Journal of Architecture and the Built Environment
IS - 1 #6
ER -