On Environment with Karen M’Closkey: “Mediating Landscapes”
Lecture Series
13.11.2024 at 18:30
Location: A125, LMU Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich
This lecture will be given by Karen M’Closkey (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia).
This lecture will showcase contemporary projects that are emblematic of the types of sites and ideas around which the discipline of landscape architecture has coalesced in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It will consider both built works as well as the shaping influence of media on our understanding of landscapes, focusing specifically on Earth sensing and environmental data collection.
This event is part of the lecture series “On Environment.” The series is organized by the Chair of Environmental Humanities at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
Environment is a broad conceptual idea with a history and many meanings. Today, the term is used ubiquitously. We are closely connected to what surrounds us and live in an environment more and less shaped by humans. In this series of lectures scholars from different disciplines address the concept, providing a lens into what it may mean to think environmentally.