ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the use of analogue and digital methods for capturing community perception and participation in landscape design and surveys a number of modes in which this can be captured. Notation, fieldwork and diagramming are important aspects for landscape design, providing human sense perceptions and observations of landscape and site through walking. Personal digital/data assistant collection and geographic information systems fieldwork are not covered in it as there is already a wide availability of instruction resources for the areas. While the practitioner may find the chapter slightly fragmented and highly theoretical, more simply the landscape architect in community consultation must reflect on the social meaning of the landscape. Landscape architectural representation, if seen in a timeline, evidences the continual struggle for the creation of individual and social meanings of places. The diagram types involve a number of fieldwork strategies. Fieldwork strategies can be derived from a base map or plan, or formed without scale.
