Supervisor:
Alf Haukeland
Namik Mackic
The fragments tend to look messy, as there is little to no level of maintenance. Never-theless, these spaces are considered to have greater bio-logical diversity than those more subjected to exploitation and control.
Messy landscapes are part of the everyday scene and are often misunderstood and overlooked. The messy landscapes are ambiguous and transitional spaces that create dynamic open fragments that serve as innovative social, cultural, and ecological spaces.
Urban green spaces are becoming increasingly more programmed and fixed, an ideal that leads to a restrictive and static reality, often fragile to change. Instead, what one should strive for are spaces that are capable of adjusting over time, that are open for and embrace forces and processes outside human control, thus creating a deeper understanding of the complexity of our surroundings.
This diploma seeks to consider plants and plant communities from a different perspective, and from this strives to validate an aesthetic that has its root in urban ecology. Further, it explores how these landscapes function and reveals the opportunities they pos-sess. Lastly, the goal is to examine how messy landscapes function within the urban city in relation to patterns of human behavior.
Contact
Emma Eriksen-Hirschberg / emmahirschberg@hotmail.com / https://issuu.com/emmahirschberg