ABSTRACT

This chapter aims not to make a critical survey of these concepts; rather, the intention is to analyze an emerging movement that people have named land, people, and art (LPA), which is different from the classical land art created by professional artists, and to make some attempt at synthesis between the two forms. LPA is a social movement; it is a social process of identification and renewal of the landscape or cityscape landmarks in terms of their symbolic forms. In the Vodnany-Zatisi case, the first step was made by the nongovernmental organizations (NGO) Vodnany Zijou in 2010, followed by a workshop on architecture, "re:vodnany", in 2012, which was supported as well by the municipality. A similar situation was found in the Konigsmuhle. LPA seems to be a relatively new and emerging process for how to reach cultural sustainability spontaneously, in a bottom-up fashion, using modern land art tools and their modifications.