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Landscape Documentation A Study on Sharing of 'Personal Landscapes' within Communities
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
The Bulletin of Japan Art Documentation Society. 2017, 24:3
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
0917-9739
2433-2860
Abstract
The aim of this study is to enhance awareness of a community’s landscape among its residents so that they will accord top priority for its maintenance in plans for regional development. Additionally, we also declare that members must be encouraged to have their own individual set of images of the landscape to ensure that adequate documentation exists. We confirmed that experiences of members of a community provide a sense of recognition to their local landscape; for this, we referred to "geographical philosophy" espoused by Nobuo Kioka. According to his theory, a landscape structure is trilaminar and triangular. Each layer influences the other. However, whether individual fundamental landscapes have been sufficiently shared within a community is open to question. Therefore, our research focuses on images that are supposedly a part of the fundamental landscape, with a tentative reference to personal landscapes here. We conducted interviews in combination with Environmental Autobiography to collect images or original landscapes from people's memories. The resulting research revealed that documentation of photos and comments provided opportunities to make community members aware that their personal landscapes have been shared with the community. Therefore, an attempt has been made to create awareness of "shareability" within society, an aspect that has hitherto been overlooked.