'Landscape is.. Undertanding' _ Sam Johnston from Gustafson Porter

The forth speaker for question of 'what is landscape?' is Sam Johnston. Recently, He is working in Gustafson Porter landscape practice and teaching at Kingston University landscape studio.

His presentation was also about the answer for the question 'what is landscape?'. He described how should we feel and think for 'landscape'.

I like the way he define landscape.
He said,
"everything is under the sun.. out there and in here."
It means we need to have an understanding of the other and an awareness of self.
Those things contain character, emotion, opinion, culture, history, and future, past, present.

Also, He defined; landscape is 'Two sides of our skin, the two sides of consciousness and the two sides of our responsibilities.'

After his lecture I have found that I need to concentrate and be honest to what I taste, smell and see.
I need to try to understand everything around my every day.
Because it is landscape! :)

What is Landscape?

As a student who is studying landscape architecture, I am always asking the question 'what is landscape?' during my entire academic years in University. The idea of landscape is always chainging and we need to make our own definition for landscape. As a final year student, in order to go further to my next step, I am trying to describe 'landscape' in my way. During over two days in this focus week, The Landscape Interface Studio in Kingston University made a great opportunity to explore many diverse and challenging ideas of landscape through presentations and conversations. Six individuals discussed their work in the context of “What is landscape?” and they tried to make their description of landscape.

the programme and six individuals were:
***** Tuesday 25 / 2:00 – 5:00pm *****
Heather Ring, Wayward Plants (www.waywardplants.org)
Christian Spencer Davies, AModels (www.amodels.co.uk)
Maria Smith, Studio Weave (www.studioweave.com)

***** Thursday 27 / 2:00 – 5:00pm *****
Sam Johnston, Gustafson Porter (www.gustafson-porter.com)
Will Sandy, Three Green Dots
Trenton Oldfield, This is Not A Gateway (www.thisisnotagateway.net)

I attended both two days presentations and conversations and it allowed me to observe other peoples way of thinking, getting inspirations, and solving problems and to share their concerns.