Abstract / Description of output
This presentation will reflect on the role of a Landscape Architect (the author)
working to promote a transdisciplinary understanding of landscape in the
context of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the South American Volcanic Arc. The
research sets out to influence policy formation in Volcanic Landscapes by recentring the relationship between citizens and their landscape.
Since 2016 the author has worked with a Volcanologist and a Human Geographer
to address the use and usability of Hazard Maps in Volcanic landscapes. The
author will open with reflections upon her own knowledge discoveries in the
disciplinary area of volcanic risk and focus her assertions upon the necessity of
working to mediate between social and environmental research and indeed
between social an environmental researchers. The author situates Landscape
Architects as holding a unique ‘mediatory’ skill set in defining new territories of
common ground where individuals abandon their inclination to ‘defend’ their
field and explore the limitations of their own expertise.
The paper will outline current activities in DRR where landscape can be
understood as a powerful mediatory genre. The author will present her most
current research, focusing upon the production, siting and dissemination of a
documentary film. The film was made by a local filmmaker as part of funded work in which she was involved was shot before and after the devastating eruption on Volcan Fuego (Guatemala) in June 2018. The film’s capacity to bear witness in the landscape will be examined along with its potential to illicit other (and alternative) representative forms, contesting
working to promote a transdisciplinary understanding of landscape in the
context of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the South American Volcanic Arc. The
research sets out to influence policy formation in Volcanic Landscapes by recentring the relationship between citizens and their landscape.
Since 2016 the author has worked with a Volcanologist and a Human Geographer
to address the use and usability of Hazard Maps in Volcanic landscapes. The
author will open with reflections upon her own knowledge discoveries in the
disciplinary area of volcanic risk and focus her assertions upon the necessity of
working to mediate between social and environmental research and indeed
between social an environmental researchers. The author situates Landscape
Architects as holding a unique ‘mediatory’ skill set in defining new territories of
common ground where individuals abandon their inclination to ‘defend’ their
field and explore the limitations of their own expertise.
The paper will outline current activities in DRR where landscape can be
understood as a powerful mediatory genre. The author will present her most
current research, focusing upon the production, siting and dissemination of a
documentary film. The film was made by a local filmmaker as part of funded work in which she was involved was shot before and after the devastating eruption on Volcan Fuego (Guatemala) in June 2018. The film’s capacity to bear witness in the landscape will be examined along with its potential to illicit other (and alternative) representative forms, contesting
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IFLA World Congress 2019 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Common Ground_Book of Abstracts |
| Place of Publication | Oslo |
| Pages | 285 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Sept 2019 |