Landscapes, cityscapes, ideal landscapes: representations in the new media.

Prerequisites:
  •   Analyses of landscape and urban space in the preceding sections of the course.
  •   Knowledge of the typology of interface elements studied previously.
Objectives:
  • A comparative study of the perception of space in the old and the new media
Description:
  • A study of the following concepts: ideal landscapes and ideal cities, emblematic landscapes and association of ideas.
  • The study will be based on analyses of famous ideal landscapes, in reality, in the arts, and in the new media.

Questions
THE AESTHETICS OF LANDSCAPE, FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT

This chapter is a study of forms: formal garden, landscape garden;

- and of interpretative concepts : emblem, association of ideas.

  • The Renaissance landscape

The Renaissance landscape was an ordered view, 'emblematic' of cosmic and social order on account of its formal layout.

  • The Enlightenment garden

The Enlightenment garden evoked 'association of ideas' related to freedom through its wavering lines.

THE IDEAL LANDSCAPE
The 'ideal landscape' combines topography and imagination. How far do the virtual landscapes also imply a perception of space combining concrete and imagined elements, and what is the role of interactivity?
  • The Classical 'ideal landscape'

The Classical 'ideal landscape' which prevailed in these periods was actually a complex composition

  • Interactive effects in multimedia

Interactive effects in multimedia may be used to evoke the classical perception of the landscape: new media and past landscapes

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