ABSTRACT
Landscapes are open and mutable systems that are continually in an exchange of energy and matter. This exchange activates and sustains the biological, ecological, and human-influenced processes that form, inform, and transform professor’s constructed environments. The disparities between the real landscape and its model – itself the product of a set of design decisions – reveals what information is valued and how it is interpreted. As environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural imperatives move landscape architecture practice towards more responsible, responsive, and effective design solutions, generating employable and reciprocal relationships between representational frameworks and the intricate systems and environments they depict challenges the premise of how these products were conceived and manufactured in the first place. New media and cultural theorist, Lev Manovich identifies two considerations for a representational model’s capacity to extract information and new forms of knowledge. As new sets of information are integrated into a representational model or framework, novel design interventions can be derived.
