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Editors’ Introduction

Editors’ Introduction WHAT WE SEE Design professors frequently advise their students to are deeply important for the evolution of research in learn how to see, linking to this charge such phrases landscape architecture. as “bring the right lens to the problem,” “apply vision to the creative process,” and “learn to discern the eye Seeing Differing Points of View of the beholder.” First- year landscape architecture It is because of this belief in empathetic seeing that, students are often asked to read Donald Meinig’s in our introduction to 33:1, we suggested a number of “The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same important social and environmental issues worthy of Scene” (1979) in which he discusses the diff ering exploration in Landscape Journal. While those topics lenses people bring to landscape interpretation, were not intended to be comprehensive, we did hope urges caution about personal biases, and suggests for renewed interest in the pressing issues and debates that a better understanding of those lenses presents of the age. opportunities for enhanced communication. More Since that introduction, issues of race have advanced students sometimes read about Ralph Waldo come to the forefront of national consciousness once Emerson’s concept of the transparent eyeball as a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land University of Wisconsin Press

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WHAT WE SEE Design professors frequently advise their students to are deeply important for the evolution of research in learn how to see, linking to this charge such phrases landscape architecture. as “bring the right lens to the problem,” “apply vision to the creative process,” and “learn to discern the eye Seeing Differing Points of View of the beholder.” First- year landscape architecture It is because of this belief in empathetic seeing that, students are often asked to read Donald Meinig’s in our introduction to 33:1, we suggested a number of “The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same important social and environmental issues worthy of Scene” (1979) in which he discusses the diff ering exploration in Landscape Journal. While those topics lenses people bring to landscape interpretation, were not intended to be comprehensive, we did hope urges caution about personal biases, and suggests for renewed interest in the pressing issues and debates that a better understanding of those lenses presents of the age. opportunities for enhanced communication. More Since that introduction, issues of race have advanced students sometimes read about Ralph Waldo come to the forefront of national consciousness once Emerson’s concept of the transparent eyeball as a

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Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land – University of Wisconsin Press

Published: Mar 15, 2016

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