Announcements

Dear colleagues

The new focus of Landscape Review is to bridge the apparent divide in landscape architecture between research and professional practice. Many practitioners feel that academic research is inaccessible or not relevant to project-driven success. Many researchers are disappointed with the impact of their hard work on project success and potential end users. The reasons for this divide are diverse, but likely originate from systemic differences in how practitioners and researchers are rewarded for different types of achievements by their organisations or those of their various clients. Nonetheless, some landscape architects successfully straddle this divide by undertaking projects underpinned by research approaches and critical thinking. Others take up practice itself as research reflecting the multiple ways of expanding landscape architectural knowledge production.

Landscape Review welcomes contributions that interrogate the relationship between forms of research and professional practice on any landscape-related topic, including climate change and decarbonisation of construction, energy and transport sectors, through either written articles, interviews, critiques or reports. They may focus on, but are not limited to:

  • Indigenous research and practice approaches;
  • built or speculative projects informed by research;
  • conversations between practitioner(s) and researcher(s);
  • transferable methodologies or approaches used in professional practice;
  • critical reflections on research and practice outcomes;
  • barriers and enablers to using research in professional practice;
  • barriers and enablers to using practice experience in academic research;
  • key issues tackled by both researchers and practitioners;

We particularly encourage the use of photographic and videographic work in submissions.

For further one-to-one discussion or assistance, please contact us.

Submissions

Deadline: 03 July 2023

Contributions should be submitted online at https://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/about/submissions by registering and logging in to the web site. Once you are registered, go through the five step process to complete uploading your contribution. All submissions are checked by an editor before being peer reviewed through a double blind process.

Please visit the submissions web site before submitting your work. There is a preparation checklist to follow for submissions. Written contributions should be formatted according to the author’s guidelines template. There is no charge for article processing.

  • Landscapes and Seascapes of Connectivity in Moana Oceania

    23-08-2024

    This special edition of Landscape Review calls for contributions that extend contemporary understandings of the collective and relational qualities of landscape and seascape from within and across the vast and fluid Moana Oceania. Our aim is to foreground the ways in which situated landscape-based practices operate as a gathering force for stories, peoples, living materialities and world-views. We invite papers that address the multiple convergences and shifting qualities of relation emerging with landscapes and seascapes whether they be either regenerating, sustaining, or subduing of plural life-worlds. 

    Landscape Review welcomes creative and/or critical research including articles, interviews, designs, critiques or reports along with professional practice commentaries. We particularly encourage an expanded range of mediums for expressing and communicating knowledge, including but not limited to photographic and videographic work.

    Submission Deadline: 01 November 2024

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  • Call for Papers - Landscape Performance Case Studies

    03-04-2024

    Landscape Review is organising a special issue in November 2024 that interrogates the relationship between research and professional practice with the Landscape Foundation of Australia (LFA). They fund and manage the Landscape Performance Case Studies (LPCS) Program to support the sustainable management of natural environments that occur in the urban landscapes of Australian cities and towns. The LPCS Program in Australia is modelled on the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Case Study Investigation (CSI) Program in the US where an academic staff member + a student research assistant + a design practice work together to assess one of their projects. The output is a 'case study brief' that summarises the findings of the research and is backed up with a more detailed report on the research methods and findings. At this stage, there have been nine Australian projects and one Aotearoa NZ project funded and included in the Landscape Performance Series of the LAF. Landscape Review is keen to provide a platform for the LPCS Program to be presented and discussed across Oceania.

    As Emeritus Professor and LFA Director Linda Corkery has suggested, authors are encouraged to reflect on the:

    • value of the process and lessons learnt;
    • challenges for practices to access and apply relevant research in their projects;
    • infrequent opportunities to do Post-Occupancy Evaluations for projects;
    • examples where the findings from a CSI have been used in practice;
    • ways of integrating landscape performance in landscape architecture education.

    Submissions

    Deadline: 01 June 2024

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  • Reminder - Call for Papers - Contemporary Knowledge Systems in Research-Practice

    09-10-2023

    This is a gentle reminder that we are keen to publish the next issue in April 2024. We continue to interrogate the relationship between academic research and professional practice. We invite authors to foreground the complexities of information gathering processes with contemporary knowledge systems that impact professional practice, research and the overlapping endeavours that bring us together.

    Landscape Review is interested in contributions for the next issue that focus on, but are not limited to:

    • knowledges beyond the Eurocentric paradigm;
    • impacts of artificial intelligence on research and professional practice;
    • critical reflections on using new information sources;
    • barriers and enablers to finding meaningful information for projects;
    • information gathering tools and methods for projects;
    • secondary information sources and their uses;
    • key issues tackled by both researchers and practitioners.

    Deadline: 01 November 2023

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  • Call for Papers: Special Issue - Māori Landscapes

    21-07-2020

    This special issue will focus on Māori Landscapes, an emerging topic that has not been explored in depth, and especially not from a Landscape Architecture perspective. We welcome new definitions/principles/perspectives; we welcome new kaupapa. The issue will keep a broad perspective on Māori Landscapes, and it will be an opportunity to put together a collection of essays from the different experts in Aotearoa New Zealand. This special issue is intended to be the first of many future publications on how Māori culture influenced the landscape in the past and shapes the landscape still; with every issue addressing a specific/different topic or subject.

     

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