Nature is neither a thing nor an accumulation of things. It is neither external nor internal,it does not surround us, it is not at our disposition, it cannot be destroyed nor can it be loved.
This book describes the diverse aspects of ecological aesthetics from the point of view of artists, landscape architects, scientists, philosophers and politicians, The landscape art of Herman Prigann, who also initiated this survey, takes a special place among the over fifty international artists and landscape architects whose work is presented in this volume.
Ecological aesthetics is creating a basis for a shift in Derspective, Current problems in the world around us are seen as creative issues of artistic environmental design Art and landscape architecture are aiming their concepts and work at finding productive viewpoints that go beyond prettification or formalistic design,Based on a wgorous intellectual exchange with research in the humanities and natural sciences, they engage in a processual dialogue with the taws, materials and forms of nature.
This book describes the diverse aspects of ecological aesthetics from the point of view of artists, landscape architects, scientists, philosophers and politicians, The landscape art of Herman Prigann, who also initiated this survey, takes a special place among the over fifty international artists and landscape architects whose work is presented in this volume.
Introduction
Jochen Boberg
About the rebirth of a world view
Heike Strelow
A dialogue with ongoing processes
Massimo Venturi Ferriolo
Landscape ethics
Form Signs to Sculptural Places
Jale Erzen
Ecology, art, ecological aesthetics
Vera David
Poetic spaces
Herman Prigann
Prologue - thoughts about nature
Amy Lipton und Patricia Watts
Ecoart: ecological art
Alfio Bonanno, Jackie Brookner, Susan Leibowitz Steinman
Materials
Peter Finke
On the heritage of nature in culture
From Sculptural Places to Landscape Transformation
Dialogue between Jacques Leenhardt and Herman Prigann
Ecological aesthetics or aesthetic ecology
Udo Weilacher
Ecological aesthetics in landscape architecture today?
Jorg Dettmar
Ecological and aesthetic aspects of succession on derelict industrial sites
Werner Schenkel
The metabolism of a society and its aesthetic design
Timothy Collins
Towards an aesthetic of diversity
Integrative Landscape
Herman Prigann
Art and science - perspectives and ways of an ecological aesthetic
Marta Gonzalez del Tanago and Diego Garcia de Jalon
Ecological aesthetics of river ecosystem restoration
Malcolm Miles
Aesthetics and engagement: interested interventions
Herman Prigann
Integrative conversion: the TERRA NOVA project
Hildegard Kurt
Aesthetics of sustainability
Klaus Topfer
Art and ecology - from the point of view of cultural politics
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Initiator, Editors, Authors
Designers
Illustration credits
Index of designers and their projects
