Ecological aesthetics : art in environmental design : theory and practice /
Contributor(s): Prigann, Herman | Strelow, Heike | David, Vera.
Publisher: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, c2004Description: 255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 31 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3764324244 (English edition : hd. bd.); 9783764324247:; 9783764324247 (English edition : hd. bd.).Subject(s): Prigann, Herman, 1942- -- Criticism and interpretation | Landscape architecture -- Environmental aspects | Ecological landscape design | Nature (Aesthetics) | Outdoor sculptureDDC classification: 712Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 712 PRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0067394 |
About the rebirth of a world view / Jochen Boberg -- A dialogue with ongoing processes / Heike Strelow -- Landscape ethics / Massimo Venturi Ferriolo -- Ecology, art, ecological aesthetics / Jale Erzen -- Poetic spaces / Vera David -- Prologue--thoughts about nature / Herman Prigann -- Ecoart : ecological art / Amy Lipton und Patricia Watts -- Materials / Alfio Bonanno, Jackie Brookner, Susan Leibowitz Steinman -- On the heritage of nature in culture / Peter Finke -- Ecological aesthetics or aesthetic ecology / dialogue between Jacques Leenhardt and Herman Prigann -- Ecological aesthetics in landscpe architecture today? / Udo Weilacher -- Ecological and aesthetic aspects of succession on derelict industrial sites / Jörg Dettmar -- The metabolism of a society and its aesthetic design / Werner Schenkel -- Towards an aesthetic of diversity / Timothy Collins -- Art and science : perspectives and ways of an ecological aesthetic / Herman Prigann -- Ecological aesthetics of river ecosystem restoration / Marta González del Tánago and Diego García de Jalón -- Aesthetics and engagement : interested interventions / Malcolm Miles -- Integrative conversion : the TERRA NOVA project / Herman Prigann -- Aesthetics of sustainability / Hildegard Kurt -- Art and ecology : from the point of view of cultural politics / Klaus Töpfer.
Ecological and artistic approaches to designing our environment raise important questions which have to be faced by all designers of urban spaces, gardens or landscapes. Here, artists, philosophers, social scientists and natural scientists provide answers to these central questions.