| What happens when you open the gate on an abandoned urban site and invite people simply to explore what is there? Site 1121- Field Notes establishes a unique landscape design method for immersive site investigation. The project focuses this method onto a vacant urban site, engaging the public and designers in an unfolding dialog that broadens the definition of Landscape Architecture to include temporary site installations.;This experimental site installation expands the normal stage of site analysis to include on-site exploration as a design approach. It incorporates craft, proprioceptive experience, and group dialog into design research, balancing art and science in a manner germane to landscape architecture. The more we understand the complex interplay between natural, built, and human conditions, the more landscape emerges as a profoundly meaningful process in which people bodily and purposefully interact with a site. Drawing from archaeological field methods, where the focus is on a narrative hidden in the very materials of a site, Site 1121 directs participants' attention to the revealed urban terrain as a source of wonder. |
