Expression

Abstract

We return to the question that began this book: Are we engaging in art or ecology? Up to this point this book has focused on strategies and systems—natural, social, cultural—at work in making change to the landscape. In many cases aesthetic operations such as a choice of material have served a larger goal, such as making connections between things that have been cut off or distanced from each other. The explicit goal is to make things better, or do a good job, or serve a community or a client.