Locating Contemporary Landscape Design - The Art of Survival

Author: Yu Kongjian
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Features: The Art of Survival: Positioning Contemporary Landscape Design focuses on addressing the challenges and opportunities faced by landscape design, the mission and goals of contemporary landscape design, and strategies for the development of the landscape design discipline and profession. Globalization and urbanization have brought numerous challenges and opportunities to landscape design. Environmental and ecological crises, cultural identity crises, and a lack of spiritual belief demand that contemporary landscape design must take on the responsibility of rebuilding the Garden of Eden and restoring the harmony between heaven, earth, humans, and gods. In the face of such a monumental task, landscape design must return to the art of survival in land design and stewardship, venturing into vast, authentic, and ordinary lands to seek the spirit of Yu the Great, drawing upon the techniques and arts of survival on the land. Landscape design is not a product or continuation of garden art; it originates from the art of survival accumulated by our ancestors in the process of subsistence. This art has long been overshadowed by the so-called garden making in the upper culture, both in China and around the world. The problem in China is also a problem in the world. Solving the problem in China, in a sense, will help solve the problem in the world. Therefore, Chinese landscape design will also inevitably become global landscape design.