Representing Landscape: visualizing climate action

Today, our project images illustrate not only aesthetic appeal but also the productivity of nature through ecosystem services that enhance our well-being. They highlight the complex interplay of environmental and social factors that shape and enable each project.

“Our interactions with landscape involve vital issues that revolve around soil, water and air, but also empathy, social identity and community,” as Valeria Pagliaro, General Manager of LAND Canada states, in the chapter “Landscape of Relations”, she wrote with LAND co-founder and CEO Andreas Kipar.

From Europe to Canada and beyond, we keep exploring the intricate dialectics between nature and culture to foster a new paradigm where landscape development serves as a regenerative force. Through our people-oriented approach, we aim to cultivate a network of relationships between the territory, its communities, and stakeholders, creating liveable and vibrant places.

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and academia. The book features visualizations of climate adaptation and resilience developed by award-winning landscape architects and academics from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Finland, South Africa, Singapore and China. Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action illustrates the imaginative ways in which climate action and climate resilient concepts are visually presented, communicated and perceived. The book will be especially valuable for students and practitioners in landscape architecture to understand how to visually capture climate change issues and design solutions and to deliver this message to the public.