Groundswell - Landscape Design

Groundswell was a show at the Moma, that has been digitized for all of us who missed it. The site is a little cumbersome to navigate through (like every Moma website), but inside is some beautiful and well thought out landscape interventions. All the projects seem to focus on the reclamation of ill used land for public use, and as a result, create some interesting new ideas on how humans intersect with "natural" landscapes. James Corner, contributor of the Fresh Kills Lifescape work on Staten Island said this about his work:

"Contemporary urban projects demand a new kind of synthetic imagination - a new form of practice with landscape, architecture, planning, ecology, engineering, social policy, and political process are understood and coordinated as an interrelated field. The synthesis of this range from knowledge bases and its material embodiment in public spaces lie at the heart of strategic landscape practice. Creative strategy, process, temporality, and strong physical design are crucial for generating new natures, new publics, new programs new forms, new urbanisms."