Book Chapter
In 'Making our place: exploring land-use tension in Aotearoa New Zealand', co-edited by J. Ruru, J. Stephenson and M. Abbott. Otago University Press, Dunedin. 2011
Being Landscape
MICK ABBOTT, WILDLAB
This article reimagines landscape not as a static scene to be observed or preserved, but as an active, lived relationship between people and place. Drawing on personal experiences, design research, and fieldwork,a case for more participatory approaches to conservation is made—ones that foster mutual shaping between people and landscape, and enable deeper belonging through embodied practice.
"Landscape doesn’t begin where people’s physical presence ends... it begins exactly in those very places and moments where both people and their environment mingle."
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