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Emerging Metrics

Landscape has often been theorized in the past tense. Post-modern, post-industrial, post-colonial, and even post-apocalyptic discourses have helped to shape landscape’s cultural significance and function. At present much of landscape is being positioned around a set of performance metrics rooted in ecological processes and sustainable capacities. For and emerging generation of landscape design and research efforts, the notion of landscape performance is no longer transformative but rather fundamental to the medium. This symposium will focus on topics of technological, political, and economic landscapes as emerging metrics for a post-productive landscape. The landscape projected here is positioned as one that drives technological development, is both political tool and foil, and is an active agent within established and emerging economies.

Enjoy the Symposium - Jason Kentner, symposium host and organizer

Keynote Address

Matthew Coolidge, Director
Center for Land Use Interpretation

Sponsored by the Baumer Lecture Series &
The Herb and Dee Dee Glimcher Fund

Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture
Gui Auditorium
Friday October 21, 2011
5:30 pm

Center for Land Use Interpretation

The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface, and in finding new meanings in the intentional and incidental forms that we individually and collectively create. We believe that the man-made landscape is a cultural inscription, that can be read to better understand who we are, and what we are doing. - CLUI Web site