The relationship between research and design

In a societal context of 'scientification' (Bayazit 2004; Cross 2006), landscape architecture research faces new perspectives: scope and scale of research studies is growing (Cushing and Renata 2015; Hewitt 2014; Weber 2015) and so is the involvement of other disciplines and citizens (Findeli 2001; Jonas 2007; Nowotny et al. 2001). The complexities arising from these developments, coupled with an increasing necessity to deal with uncertainty (Prominski 2005), call for a sound relationship of landscape architectural design and academic research.