VIRTUAL: Learning. Life. Work.

Abstract

We situate ourselves in the world as learners and teachers in multiple ways. Often this means occupying more than one position at once in both space and time. One of the core practices of many disciplines including Landscape Architecture is that of ‘field work’. Generally field work is considered through the frame of site visits or site analysis. But there is a potential creative duality to the term field – where Landscape Architecture is a field of study and at the same time orientates towards ‘field’ as a place or places where disciplinary approaches play out. This paper explores ideas of field and field work as moments where the intersection of knowledge and disciplinary practices are co-informed by the field (environment, ecology, relations). With the idea that emphasising this intersection offers alternative teaching practices – that deliberately set out to conflate, complexify and construct meanings between ‘the field’ and ‘field work’. Responding through the theme ‘Intersection and Integration’ this paper will discuss teaching approaches in design studio and thesis subjects in Landscape Architect that proposed agent based processes to design new systems and processes that work across field/field dualities to open up disciplinary possibilities and orientations of leaner and teacher, designer and project.