ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes approaches such as topological, behavioral, and ornamental. Each prioritize a different aspect of a project's formation, a different kind of pattern-finding or pattern-forming, that relates both to design methods and to material processes in the landscape itself. The display of and engagement with processes has been inherent in the making of landscapes throughout history. The many manifestations of this process-orientated engagement reveal how we perceive our affiliation with nature at a given point in time. New techniques and modes of visualization have the potential to change how we "see." For centuries, humans have created tools to uncover and understand the complexities that underlie the immediately visible characteristics of our environment. In both Gyorgy Kepes's "ecological consciousness" and Gregory Bateson's ecological episteme, what is most important is the process of knowing, which comes through the aesthetic dimension.
