景观设计学在全球语境中的定位——《“一带一路”时期的批判性景观规划》评论

Positioning Landscape Architecture in a Global Context:Review on Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative

新近出版的《“一带一路”时期的批判性景观规划》(以下简称《批判性景观规划》)一书,呈现了阿什利·斯科特·凯利和陆小璇两位作者过去多年在中国香港大学开设的生态规划方向景观设计课程的成果。该课程主要探究了“一带一路”倡议提出后早期的基础设施项目之一——中老铁路及其沿线的景观变迁、景观建造知识的交流与转变,以及相关实践对中国、老挝及相关国际组织的影响。面向从事跨国、跨区域项目的规划师及相关专业人士,《批判性景观规划》就全球发展的历史、规划教学法和概念框架展开了全面的讨论。通过一系列课程项目的展示,本书着眼于景观规划的政治和经济属性,向景观设计研究和实践中的传统教学与研究方法发起了挑战,尤其回应了伊恩·麦克哈格的景观生态学和规划方法的历史意义及局限性。本文着重剖析了书中的“批判性景观规划”概念和方法框架,探索其在教学和实践中的应用,讨论了实证主义研究和人文科学批判研究并行的教学方法;梳理了包括档案研究、实地观察、民族志研究、访谈和话语分析的规划设计策略,并指出本书的价值在于探讨了全球发展、保护、可持续性和文化知识交流的重要性;此外,本文鼓励在全球视野中对景观设计学的学科定位进行批判性反思。

Ashley Scott Kelly and Xiaoxuan Lu’s recent publication Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative emerges from their Landscape Architecture course on ecological planning at the University of Hong Kong,China lasted for several years.The book studies the landscape transformation along the China-Laos Railway,one of the earliest Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure projects.Targeted towards the audience of planners and allied professionals working in regional and transnational projects,the authors provide a comprehensive discussion on histories,planning pedagogies,and conceptual frameworks of global developments.Demonstrated through a series of studio proposals,the book can be seen as a provocative and ambitious experiment,in which Kelly and Lu challenge conventional epistemologies and protocols in landscape architecture research and professional practices.The review focuses on the authors’conceptual and methodological frameworks to explore“critical landscape planning”as both pedagogical and practical practices.Additionally,this review invites critical reflections on the positionality of the landscape architecture discipline.