1st Edition
Constructed Ecologies Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design
Part I: A Background to Design, 1. The Environment is Not a Human Construct, 2. Global Differences, Not Universals, 3. Shifting Adaptabilities, Not Static Concepts, Part II: Thinking about Design, 4. Multiple, Not Solo Voices, 5. Inquiries, Not Assumptions, 6. Thinking Backwards, Not as a Forward and Linear Narrative
Biography
Margaret Grose teaches landscape architecture in the Melbourne School of Design, within the University of Melbourne, Australia. Rarely for a trained landscape architect, she also has a long earlier history as an agricultural scientist and ecologist, working in Western Australia as well as in Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, where she did experimental and theoretical research in mathematical biology. She has published more than forty-five journal articles and book chapters across biological science and design, and is an Associate Editor of Oxford’s Journal of Urban Ecology.
"Grose adeptly presents landscape architects with strong criticism of our long-held beliefs and assumptions. She makes us consider work scholars are undertaking in allied fields that we may not have accessed. Most significantly for
me, she points to interesting areas of specialisation for our emerging practitioners and educators. This is a book that I highly recommend." - Gill Lawson, (Landscape Review), Lincoln University, New Zealand
