Reconciling the rational and the emotive, the empirical and the Intuitive.
A set of theoretical keywords I employ in the course revolves around the interconnection between the term "landscape," "Picturesque," and "scientific analysis." How do these terms help illuminate the reconciliatory role of the modern landscape architecture? Denis Cosgrove's social formation and symbolic landscape and Carolyn Merchant's Ecological Revolution both describe the impact of evolving scientific frameworks on human's perception of their relationship with the nonhuman mutual world. Through between " the disembodied analytical mind and a romantic emotional sensibility accompanying the capitalist ecological revolution, humans became increasingly separated from the nonhuman world about them.