Eidetic Operations and New Landscape

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Eidetic Operations and New Landscape
According to James Corner, an image is a visual representation of land in a picture. He claims landscapes and images are inseparable; therefore, there will be no landscape but the only environment without an image. Old English's visual representation was termed as landskip, which was referred to as a picture on a land. Imagining is central to forging landscape; the tendency of many contemporary landscaped architects to assume that this prioritizes visual and formal qualities alone significantly limits the full eidetic scope of landscape creativity (Corner, p.153). James stated that landscape imagination is a crucial agent yet a form of social action. The goal of landscape images is to emphasize the provoking and challenging act of landscape and the relationship society has with the natural world. Landscape imagination confronts and deconstructs binaries that hinder landscape architecture. Therefore, limiting binaries are transcended by finding unlimited potential, opportunities, and skills among them.
Eidetic images contain a range of ideas that are related to the core of human creative minds—an architecture imaging condition of how landscape reality is shaped and conceptualized. James uses the term eidetic to refer to the relationship between human mental conception that is picturable with their cognitive and intuitive nature. Eidetic images do more than projecting conditions of a certain object's secondary significance but rather engenders, unfolds, and participates in emerging realities. These eidetic images are considered drawing acts as producing agents and ideational catalysts to link humans and nature. The eidetic images of landscape act as a mediator between nature and culture hence invoking natural pr...