What is a doctorate concerning landscape ? 

Based on the realisation that research concerning the landscape is a fact, that during thirty years seminars have been dedicated to this subject in schools of landscape architecture, this article exposes the problems inherent to the creation of a doctorate concerning the landscape and demonstrates t...

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Main Author: Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Agrocampus Angers, Ecole nationale supérieure du paysage, ENP Blois, ENSAP Bordeaux, ENSAP Lille 2009-06-01
Series:Projets de Paysage
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/paysage/29078
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description Based on the realisation that research concerning the landscape is a fact, that during thirty years seminars have been dedicated to this subject in schools of landscape architecture, this article exposes the problems inherent to the creation of a doctorate concerning the landscape and demonstrates that these problems stem from an object and a disciplinary field that are difficult to define. It then analyses a sample of ground-breaking documents in order to identify the major questions and the attempts at answers that still nourish the field of research in landscape architecture today. It indicates that these ways of conceiving research, the part played by this activity in professional schools, its social role, the field it covers and the disciplines that support it, are often all structured around three oppositions : art/science, usefulness/disinterestedness, creation of a work of art/furthering of knowledge. Lastly, it exposes assumptions concerning the scope of a Doctorate with majors in landscape design, in landscape art criticism and in landscape sciences. It then suggests that by attempting to go beyond these oppositions, which boil down to the nature/culture dichotomy, only a last major concerning a theoretical landscape science would be appropriate. 
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spelling doaj-art-1e1cce302be4489db08364adb5e46c7e2025-02-05T16:22:14ZfraAgrocampus Angers, Ecole nationale supérieure du paysage, ENP Blois, ENSAP Bordeaux, ENSAP LilleProjets de Paysage1969-61242009-06-01210.4000/paysage.29078What is a doctorate concerning landscape ? Catherine Chomarat-RuizBased on the realisation that research concerning the landscape is a fact, that during thirty years seminars have been dedicated to this subject in schools of landscape architecture, this article exposes the problems inherent to the creation of a doctorate concerning the landscape and demonstrates that these problems stem from an object and a disciplinary field that are difficult to define. It then analyses a sample of ground-breaking documents in order to identify the major questions and the attempts at answers that still nourish the field of research in landscape architecture today. It indicates that these ways of conceiving research, the part played by this activity in professional schools, its social role, the field it covers and the disciplines that support it, are often all structured around three oppositions : art/science, usefulness/disinterestedness, creation of a work of art/furthering of knowledge. Lastly, it exposes assumptions concerning the scope of a Doctorate with majors in landscape design, in landscape art criticism and in landscape sciences. It then suggests that by attempting to go beyond these oppositions, which boil down to the nature/culture dichotomy, only a last major concerning a theoretical landscape science would be appropriate. https://journals.openedition.org/paysage/29078landscape architectureepistemologylandscapeticslandscape sciencecritical interpretation of project
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What is a doctorate concerning landscape ? 
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landscape architecture
epistemology
landscapetics
landscape science
critical interpretation of project
title What is a doctorate concerning landscape ? 
title_full What is a doctorate concerning landscape ? 
title_fullStr What is a doctorate concerning landscape ? 
title_full_unstemmed What is a doctorate concerning landscape ? 
title_short What is a doctorate concerning landscape ? 
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topic landscape architecture
epistemology
landscapetics
landscape science
critical interpretation of project
url https://journals.openedition.org/paysage/29078
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