ABSTRACT
This essay results from an observation that human–environment relations have been pushed aside over the last 20 years in landscape architectural design partly due to the rise of a technoscience understanding of Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas in contemporary discourse and practice. I have found through significant fieldwork that Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas have been highly productive at making sense of this fieldwork and through a re-reading of their ideas I have been able to develop an alternative way to understand how landscapes function socially and experientially. So, to counter the dominant understanding this essay presents an account of the Deleuze–Guattarian notion of ‘assemblages’ and, also the very obscure but centrally important Deleuzian notion of ‘expression’, to strategically re-orient how their ideas have been understood.
