TY - JOUR
T1 - The aesthetic dimension of productive green community spaces
AU - Alon-Mozes, Tal
AU - Heller, Avigail
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS).
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Productive green community spaces are currently the subject of extensive academic discussion. Scholars from diverse fields explore this phenomenon from social, economic, political and planning perspectives. Yet, the aesthetic dimension of such sites has remained outside the academic purview, while giving rise to public debate and critique. This paper addresses the lacuna by examining productive green community spaces in Israel to contribute to the contemporary discourse on aesthetics and community gardens. Three theoretical frameworks for aesthetics serve as the basis of our investigation: the intrinsic value of nature, experience beyond the visual towards the ethical and cues of care. Our analysis regards fourteen productive green community spaces, established in 2017 and 2018, that seem messy and unordered at first sight. We identified six constituents to establish the aesthetic merits of the gardens: expressions of social and cultural characteristics, cues of care through organization of space, presence of nonhuman lives, embodied experience, change over time (dynamics) and ethical expressions.
AB - Productive green community spaces are currently the subject of extensive academic discussion. Scholars from diverse fields explore this phenomenon from social, economic, political and planning perspectives. Yet, the aesthetic dimension of such sites has remained outside the academic purview, while giving rise to public debate and critique. This paper addresses the lacuna by examining productive green community spaces in Israel to contribute to the contemporary discourse on aesthetics and community gardens. Three theoretical frameworks for aesthetics serve as the basis of our investigation: the intrinsic value of nature, experience beyond the visual towards the ethical and cues of care. Our analysis regards fourteen productive green community spaces, established in 2017 and 2018, that seem messy and unordered at first sight. We identified six constituents to establish the aesthetic merits of the gardens: expressions of social and cultural characteristics, cues of care through organization of space, presence of nonhuman lives, embodied experience, change over time (dynamics) and ethical expressions.
KW - aesthetics
KW - cues of care
KW - embodied experience
KW - productive green community space
KW - sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159806440&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/18626033.2022.2195244
DO - 10.1080/18626033.2022.2195244
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AN - SCOPUS:85159806440
SN - 1862-6033
VL - 17
SP - 58
EP - 69
JO - Journal of Landscape Architecture
JF - Journal of Landscape Architecture
IS - 3
ER -