'Deep landscape' - online article by Elisabeth Sjödahl (2024)
Landscape architect Elisabeth Sjödahl outlines the concept of 'deep landscape', and illustrates it with some impressive graphics. Moving away from the notion of landscape as just a surface phenomenon, she argues that landscape designers need to deal with the largely hidden subsurface as well as the visible surface, and that means dealing with human modified ground as well as tree-roots, soils, groundwater, etc. There is some correspondence here with the interdisciplinary idea of the Critical Zone, which might be worth exploring. In so far as it encompasses both natural and cultural forces/entities in the ground, and recognizes that depth in space has some correspondence with depth in time, 'deep landscape' seems a very rich concept with practical application, and it will be interesting to see how it develops.
Sjödahl, E. 2024. Deep landscape. Landezine (Landscape Architecture Platform), online article available here