Landscape Architecture Frontiers 048: Human Desires, Social Demands, and Landscape Future

Kongjian Yu,Leiqing Xu,Susan Nigra Snyder,George E. Thomas,Zhao Chen

Landscape Architecture Frontiers 048: Human Desires, Social Demands, and Landscape Future
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oro Editions
Country
United States
Published
26 October 2021
Pages
178
ISBN
9781954081406

Landscape Architecture Frontiers 048: Human Desires, Social Demands, and Landscape Future

Kongjian Yu,Leiqing Xu,Susan Nigra Snyder,George E. Thomas,Zhao Chen

Design is a means to satisfy social demands, and such demands come from human desires. Only when individuals’ desires fuse and grow into a collective consensus, can they be manifested and conveyed in various landscape forms as new public goods. As a public goods serving human desires and social demands, landscape design faces both challenges and opportunities preceding undergoing public crises. In this issue, LA Frontiers explores the implications of human desires on public behaviors through cross-disciplinary lenses of philosophy, social psychology, cognitive science, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, history, etc. It would offer inspiring insights for landscape professionals to identity their role in responding to contemporary demands and those of future societies.

At present, in view of the spatial isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent prevalence of contactless services, the current conventional space-time narrative may be dramatically changed. The fact that both observing and being observed now become consumer goods within landscape enables landscape architects to recognize and examine people’s suppressed desires and unmet needs, introspect the rationality and necessity of marginal desires, and thus, redefine the sophisticated interactions between landscape design and human desires, as well social demands.

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