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Recollecting Landscapes: teaching and making landscape biographies
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Recollecting Landscapes: teaching and making landscape biographies
DOI link for Recollecting Landscapes: teaching and making landscape biographies
Recollecting Landscapes: teaching and making landscape biographies book
ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors deal with Recollecting Landscapes, an rephotographic survey documenting a century of landscape transformation in Flanders that can be considered as such a biographic project. They discuss redirecting their attention to the gradual transformation of landscapes, authored by its inhabitants as much as by designers, planners, engineers or policy makers. Recollecting Landscapes is not only a tool to teach students about landscape by explaining its evolution, it is also co-produced with students. The interviews were complemented by other sources that further developed the landscape biographies, ranging from publications and archives of local history associations, over geographical atlases, to a broad array of literature on the social, cultural, economical and agricultural development of the landscape under study. During the process of making the biography, students step literally in and out of the landscape and alternate an embedded social, cultural and emotional experience of the inhabitants with the more distant experience of the expert.