Media Matters in Landscape Architecture

Media Matters in Landscape Architecture makes a unique contribution to landscape architectural praxis for its explicit framing of environmental media in terms of its dual meaning within our discipline. In the sciences, environmental media are the materials of the natural worldsoils, air, water, plants, microbes. Within STS and media studies, environmental media refers broadly to the relationship between environmental issuessuch as pollution, biodiversity loss, climate changeand the creation and application of the tools, interfaces, and images, through which information about these issues is conveyed. This book focuses on how these two distinct understandings of environmental media coalesce within the discipline of landscape architecture and other spatial design fields. Authors from a wide-range of disciplineslandscape architecture, media studies, history of science, civil engineering, ecology, planning, and architectureexamine how the creation and use of data, images, and models acts as intermediariesthe mediums through which a particular understanding of environment or landscape arises. This framing of environmental media emphasises the relationships among various design media and the specific material and social environments within which they operate.