School’s Out! #48 with Catherine Mosbach
Lezing / Debat
Catherine Mosbach will talk about “singularities”. She will explain how communicating, exchanging and sharing form a keystone, an alliance between beings and environments – above & below the surface. While we grasp a very small part of what is available beyond the visible and instant knowledge of the present, she agues that Landscape architects must invest and initiate ways of multipurposes forms throughout time and space, with instruments and dynamics made available to as many people as possible. This aesthetic choice also reveals an ethic that fundamentally concerns the question of transmission authentic function as “medium”, as “milieu”, an in-between, of mediation.
The question of the writing, over-writing or non-writing of a product, a production in the sense of the physical interpretation of a sensory, economic, and social event, is central. It is vital in order for landscape designers to be able to work freely. But the focus of our energies still needs to be defined. Must we adapt to a brand-oriented economy, subvert the issue of ecolabelling, or produce landscapes for the sake of real images, visual coalitions that strengthen the social imagination so that it does not forget where it comes from and does not fear its destiny?