Abstract

Quarries are inherently complex situations that offer a unique and timely challenge to contemporary landscape architects. Their technical and operational nature tends to lead to an equally technical response by designers at the expense of engaging with the ethico-aesthetic potential of these confronting landscapes. Several designers and thinkers are responding to this problem through theorizing a revival of aesthetics that focuses on determining why certain landscape encounters occur, in order to use this as the basis from which to design. While attention has been given to theorizing the role of aesthetics in a contemporary design setting, less so has been directed to the practices and techniques suited to designing with these forces or doings. This paper uses the Horokiwi Quarry in New Zealand as an example to explore how the aesthetic forces can be understood as emerging from concrete spatiotemporal relations between the body and landscape. In doing so, it argues that greater attention needs to be paid to the specific, not generic, causes of aesthetic encounters so that stronger, more sustainable relations with nonhuman entities can be developed.

摘要

采石场本质上是复杂的情况，为当代景观设计师提供了独特而及时的挑战。它们的技术和操作性质往往会导致设计师做出同样的技术反应，而以牺牲这些面对面景观的伦理美学潜力为代价。一些设计师和思想家正在通过理论化美学复兴来解决这个问题，这种复兴专注于确定为什么某些景观会发生，以便以此作为设计的基础。虽然人们已经注意到美学在当代设计环境中的作用的理论化，但很少有人关注适合用这些力量或行为进行设计的实践和技术。本文以新西兰的 Horokiwi 采石场为例，探讨如何将审美力量理解为从身体与景观之间的具体时空关系中产生。在这样做的过程中，它认为需要更多地关注审美遭遇的具体原因，而不是一般原因，以便与非人类实体建立更牢固、更可持续的关系。