The Landscape Manifesto Series is a platform for seminal manifestos, poetry, reflections and beyond that push our thinking, perception and awareness of the landscape that we all live with and within.

Anna Aslaug Lund — The City as a Garden contributes to a global movement that draws inspiration from the garden and the gardener, providing an actionable framework for understanding and reimagining human settlements in an era of ecological uncertainty.

In this essay, Hans Teerds, Professor at the Academy in Amsterdam, argues the opposite. The built and the unbuilt environment require close attention. The architecture of our environment forms a collective domain according to the philosopher Hannah Arendt. It determines how we live, work, move, and thus meet or avoid one another. Not only does it affect individual lives, but it has an impact on the vitality of human communities.

Gilles Clement — Gardens, Landscape, and Nature’s Genius, is a straight forward way to Gilles Clément’s key concepts and a rare opportunity to access his original mindset and gain insight into a place of inspiration and co-creation with nature. Clément’s words and work are more relevant now than ever, presenting a tremendously powerful and relevant impetus for rethinking our present and future relationships with nature, garden culture, and sustainability.