ABSTRACT

Landscapes as dynamic relations between people and worlds are always incomplete. They are partial understandings, evolving knowledges, edited images and unfinished stories of our designed and undesigned environments. Gaps within and between landscapes can reveal histories omitted and individuals silenced, but this open-endedness of landscapes can also provide opportunities to contribute and participate. In this paper I explore how landscapes are always under construction and I argue that their incompleteness offers potential for new practices. I question, how traditions of mapping can reflect dynamic realities of landscapes; how design and representational practices that attempt to fix time and complete space can work with incompleteness; and how designers and researchers can embrace such landscapes as open-ended, collective endeavours. In this paper, I discuss a mapping project called ‘Incomplete Cartographies’—an experiment with in-progress cartographies, incrementally informed by situated narratives, and producing new forms of belonging.

摘要

作为人与世界之间动态关系的景观总是不完整的。它们是我们设计和未设计环境的部分理解、不断发展的知识、编辑过的图像和未完成的故事。景观内部和景观之间的差距可以揭示历史的遗漏和个人的沉默，但景观的这种开放性也可以提供贡献和参与的机会。在本文中，我探讨了景观是如何一直在建设中的，我认为它们的不完整性为新的实践提供了潜力。我质疑，制图传统如何反映景观的动态现实；试图固定时间和完整空间的设计和代表性实践如何在不完整的情况下工作；以及设计师和研究人员如何能够接受开放式的集体努力等景观。