The art of transmission: mediating meaning in contemporary French landscape design

Spectral denivelations:la mémoire du railand topographical excess at the Jardins d'Éole

“…[1] Furthermore, if built landscapes contribute to this imaging in material ways, how do the physical forms that designers visualize actually engage 'structures of seeing', and project an appearance that is otherwise not (yet) visible? [2] Such questions inexorably lead back to debates about landscape meaning that range from how such meaning arises (Charlesworth 2003;Corner 1992;Meyer 2008) to the different ways constructed landscapes 'mean' (Hunt 2000(Hunt , 2004Keravel 2010;Olin 1998;), and indeed whether landscapes 'mean' at all (Gillette 2005;Treib 1995). Also unclear is how landscapes might mean similar things to multiple users in an era when most forms of meaning are understood as constructed within discursive, frequently contested frameworks of signification.…”