Nature is neither a thing nor an accumulation of things. It is neither external nor internal,it does not surround us, it is not at our disposition, it cannot be destroyed nor can it be loved.

 This book describes the diverse aspects of ecological aesthetics from the point of view of artists, landscape architects, scientists, philosophers and politicians, The landscape art of Herman Prigann, who also initiated this survey, takes a special place among the over fifty international artists and landscape architects whose work is presented in this volume.

 Ecological aesthetics is creating a basis for a shift in Derspective, Current problems in the world around us are seen as creative issues of artistic environmental design Art and landscape architecture are aiming their concepts and work at finding productive viewpoints that go beyond prettification or formalistic design,Based on a wgorous intellectual exchange with research in the humanities and natural sciences, they engage in a processual dialogue with the taws, materials and forms of nature.

 This book describes the diverse aspects of ecological aesthetics from the point of view of artists, landscape architects, scientists, philosophers and politicians, The landscape art of Herman Prigann, who also initiated this survey, takes a special place among the over fifty international artists and landscape architects whose work is presented in this volume.

Introduction

Jochen Boberg

About the rebirth of a world view

Heike Strelow

A dialogue with ongoing processes

Massimo Venturi Ferriolo

Landscape ethics

Form Signs to Sculptural Places

Jale Erzen

Ecology, art, ecological aesthetics

Vera David

Poetic spaces

Herman Prigann

Prologue - thoughts about nature

Amy Lipton und Patricia Watts

Ecoart: ecological art

Alfio Bonanno, Jackie Brookner, Susan Leibowitz Steinman

Materials

Peter Finke

On the heritage of nature in culture

From Sculptural Places to Landscape Transformation

Dialogue between Jacques Leenhardt and Herman Prigann

Ecological aesthetics or aesthetic ecology

Udo Weilacher

Ecological aesthetics in landscape architecture today?

Jorg Dettmar

Ecological and aesthetic aspects of succession on derelict industrial sites

Werner Schenkel

The metabolism of a society and its aesthetic design

Timothy Collins

Towards an aesthetic of diversity

Integrative Landscape

Herman Prigann

Art and science - perspectives and ways of an ecological aesthetic

Marta Gonzalez del Tanago and Diego Garcia de Jalon

Ecological aesthetics of river ecosystem restoration

Malcolm Miles

Aesthetics and engagement: interested interventions

Herman Prigann

Integrative conversion: the TERRA NOVA project

Hildegard Kurt

Aesthetics of sustainability

Klaus Topfer

Art and ecology - from the point of view of cultural politics

Appendix

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Initiator, Editors, Authors

Designers

Illustration credits

Index of designers and their projects