The Niagara Escarpment,a 440-million-year-old landform,cuts through a property owned by the University of Toronto in Caledon,Ontario in Canada.The property juxtaposes impacts from historical quarrying activity which b...The Niagara Escarpment,a 440-million-year-old landform,cuts through a property owned by the University of Toronto in Caledon,Ontario in Canada.The property juxtaposes impacts from historical quarrying activity which burrowed directly into the Escarpment’s slope,the greater context of the region’s urban development demands,and the Escarpment’s identity as an ancient geological formation,ecological refugium,and old-growth forest housing ancient species such as Thuja occidentalis.This project explores the university’s responsibility in advocating for the protection of the Escarpment’s unique ecologic conditions,including the distinct cliff ecosystems and the novel successional plant communities evolving on sites of former quarry activities.Interventions on the trail system,cave bridges and lookouts,and the boardwalk and path system,along with guidance of signage and trail markers,will bring visitors to areas where former quarry activities sculptured the Escarpment’s limestone faces and are now reclaimed by a system of lush novel wetlands and habitats in evolutionary stages.Connecting to a system of existing public trails,this project leverages the university’s educational and recreational objectives to form new strategic partnerships with local conservancy groups,aiming at monitoring and managing access and habitat protection.展开更多
This project delves into the establishment of place attachment in evolving landscapes through an interdisciplinary lens.It starts with the interpretation of the story of A-Fei,a mushroom forager in Yunnan,China from t...This project delves into the establishment of place attachment in evolving landscapes through an interdisciplinary lens.It starts with the interpretation of the story of A-Fei,a mushroom forager in Yunnan,China from the perspective of multispecies ethnography,revealing that place attachment is tied to the nearby,where everyday interactions with the surrounding landscape can evoke memories of hometown and generate meanings of a new residence.Extending these insights,this project adopts auto-ethnography to examine the author’s experiences in the multicultural city of Toronto to explore how she as an immigrant builds an attachment to the local landscape.Through sensory engagement,cultural observation,and interviews of the other immigrants,how magnolias facilitate a new sense of belongings has been found.This project aims to transcend disciplinary boundaries and expand the realm of landscape architecture to anthropologic perspectives.By emphasizing the co-evolution of human and non-human lifeways,it seeks to explore how individuals perceive landscape and build relationship with it and proposes “ethnographizing landscape architecture” as avalue-centered approach for socially impactful and contextuallyrelevant design.展开更多
文摘The Niagara Escarpment,a 440-million-year-old landform,cuts through a property owned by the University of Toronto in Caledon,Ontario in Canada.The property juxtaposes impacts from historical quarrying activity which burrowed directly into the Escarpment’s slope,the greater context of the region’s urban development demands,and the Escarpment’s identity as an ancient geological formation,ecological refugium,and old-growth forest housing ancient species such as Thuja occidentalis.This project explores the university’s responsibility in advocating for the protection of the Escarpment’s unique ecologic conditions,including the distinct cliff ecosystems and the novel successional plant communities evolving on sites of former quarry activities.Interventions on the trail system,cave bridges and lookouts,and the boardwalk and path system,along with guidance of signage and trail markers,will bring visitors to areas where former quarry activities sculptured the Escarpment’s limestone faces and are now reclaimed by a system of lush novel wetlands and habitats in evolutionary stages.Connecting to a system of existing public trails,this project leverages the university’s educational and recreational objectives to form new strategic partnerships with local conservancy groups,aiming at monitoring and managing access and habitat protection.
文摘This project delves into the establishment of place attachment in evolving landscapes through an interdisciplinary lens.It starts with the interpretation of the story of A-Fei,a mushroom forager in Yunnan,China from the perspective of multispecies ethnography,revealing that place attachment is tied to the nearby,where everyday interactions with the surrounding landscape can evoke memories of hometown and generate meanings of a new residence.Extending these insights,this project adopts auto-ethnography to examine the author’s experiences in the multicultural city of Toronto to explore how she as an immigrant builds an attachment to the local landscape.Through sensory engagement,cultural observation,and interviews of the other immigrants,how magnolias facilitate a new sense of belongings has been found.This project aims to transcend disciplinary boundaries and expand the realm of landscape architecture to anthropologic perspectives.By emphasizing the co-evolution of human and non-human lifeways,it seeks to explore how individuals perceive landscape and build relationship with it and proposes “ethnographizing landscape architecture” as avalue-centered approach for socially impactful and contextuallyrelevant design.
