ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the importance of asking questions. It considers landscape as a creative practice that investigates multi-scalar, site-specific relations between people and their environments, with the intention of developing proposals for future landscapes. In answering, rather than questioning, designers can accept misplaced assurances that they can solve landscapes rather than merely inform their future change. Working between fieldwork, that in some cases involved hanging out in neighbourhood pubs to speak with residents or travelling through rural landscapes in canal boats, and desk studies of library, archive and internet research revealed arrays of narratives from which students attempted to make sense of their project sites. The operational drawing prioritises processes and highlights relations of landscapes as spatial and temporal entities. The chapter argues that new forms of representation are therefore required, that open up the uniqueness of individual design projects rather than fixing alternative positions of viewing.
