Landscape in the Field and the Archive · What is Landscape Studies? What is Landscape? ”An area of land as perceived by people.” European Landscape Convention, Florence, 2000.

LandscapeintheFieldandtheArchive

SarahMeadLeonardGardenandLandscapeStudiesJuniorFellow,DumbartonOaks

PhDCandidateinArtHistory,UniversityofDelaware

Aninterdisciplinaryfieldfocusedonsitesasobjectsofstudy.

Drawsonmethodsandinterestsofmanyothertraditions,including:archaeology,history,humangeography,gardenhistory,historyofartanddesign,materialculture– andnaturalhistory.

WhatisLandscapeStudies? WhatisLandscape?

”Anareaoflandasperceivedbypeople.”

EuropeanLandscapeConvention,Florence,2000.

“Awayofseeing.”

DenisCosgrove,SocialFormation&SymbolicLandscape,1985.

BirchenEdge,PeaksDistrict,Derbyshire

LandscapeStudiesintheField

BirchenEdge,PeaksDistrict,Derbyshire

• Howhasthislandscapechangedovertime?Whatinformationhasbeenlostinthosechanges?

• Whocontrolsthisland?Whyhavetheymadethechoicestheydid?• Whoworkstheland?Wholiveshere?• Howdolocalcommunitiesrespondtothesesitesandtochangesinthesesites?

• Howisthislandscapeinterpretedculturally,byindividualsorbyagroup?

AskingQuestionsofaLandscape

• Maps• Landdocuments• Aerialphotography• Sitephotography• Othersiteimages– paintings,prints,drawings.• Archaeologicalstudies,HistoricEnglandandNationalTrustrecords,VictoriaCountyHistories,localhistories,etc.

LandscapeResearchResources

Bishopbarns, York, UK. Ordnance Survey (OS) Maps, Country Series 1:2500.Left: 1909, First RevisionRight: 1937, Third Revision

Prehistoric settlements near Eynsham, Oxfordshire and Lansallos, Cornwall.(Damian Grady/Historic England)

A new prehistoric henge discovered at Brú na Bóinne, Ireland. (Anthony Murphy)

Victorian garden at Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire. (South West News Service)

Dante Gabriel RossettiWater Willow, 1871Delaware Art Museum

TeachingtheLandscape

• What'shere?• Howisthisspaceused?• Isthereclearperiodization?Whendotheythinkfeatureswereaddedorchanged?

• Howdotheyexperienceit?

ObservationandCloseLooking

• Howhasthislandscapechangedovertime?• Whocontrolsthisland?Whyhavetheymadethechoicestheydid?• Howisthelandmanaged,andbywhom?• Whousesit,andhow?• Howisthislandscapeinterpretedculturally?• Whovaluesit,andhow?

LandscapeResearchQuestions

• Whoandwhatismissing?Whatlandscapestoriesareorarenottold?Why?