Spatial-temporal Research Articles

Time and Landscape

Landscapes are created out of peoples understanding and engagement with the world around them. They are always in process of being shaped and reshaped. Being of the moment and in process, they are always temporal. They are not a record but a recording, and this recording is much more than a reflection of human agency and action; it is creative of them. Landscapes provoke memory, facilitate (or impede) action. Nor are they a recording, for they are always polyvalent and multivocal. There is a historicity and spatiality to peoples engagement with the world around them. This paper begins with the untidiness of spatial temporalities, with structural inequalities that emphasizeor marginalizepeoples sense of place and belonging, and with the subjective positioning of the commentator. A phenomenological position is adopted, but it is one that moves beyond the local to encompass a nested series of sociopolitical landscapes. Three recent projects are then described. The agendas that inform the projects are differe...