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SYSTEMS:
cyclical
seasonal
irregular
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Rory Thibault
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e. rthibault@wustl.edu
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The landscape exists not as object but as
actant
.
It is
plural
.
It is
vertical
.
It is
horizontal
.
It is
epigenetic
.
The vertical landscape, is a
stratum
.
It comprises information
layered
over information.
It
compresses
time.
It
exists
as before, currently, and in the future.
It
composes
the context and uniqueness of place.
It
erases
and
writes
anew.
It
records
intermittent existence.
It
perceives
independently from the occupant’s perception.
The horizontal landscape, is a
continuum
.
It
revokes
isolated disciplines.
It
necessitates
and
dissuades
politics.
It exists as
social
and
cultural
,
urban
and
rural
,
additive
and
subtractive
.
It
criticises
the invisible infrastructural overlays.
It
dictates
the actions of humans unaware of the system.
It
facilitates
the human resilience that counters the concealed forces.
It
combats
the reaction of individual interests.
It
antagonizes
and
agrees
.
It exists as the
soft
, the
malleable
, and the
formable
.
It
devises
the method and framing device needed to understand the system.
It
reacts
by actions not apart from the system but rather from within.
It
begets
design.
It
prompts
science.
It
induces
policy.
It
creates
action and reacts.
It
validates
equity.
It
wills
sociability.