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Abstract
Based on the concern and reflection on the topic of “walking”, this lecture will first explain the relationship between walking and critical cognition through three cultural trends in the middle and upper 20th century that are closely related to “walking” and “walking people”. Then, the process of forming critical cognition through the activity of walking is analyzed as “experience-reflection-reconstruction”. Therefore, this lecture will describe and analyze the various academic discussions, social actions and design practices on “walking” in the field of landscape architecture in the past 60 to 70 years from two levels: “walking as a method of landscape cognition” and “walking as a method of landscape design”, identifying how “walking” has helped to develop a critical cognition and inspired design thinking which has been translated into concrete landscapes that are used by people.
Bio
BIAN Simin is an assistant professor, master tutor and the director of international cooperative education program at School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University. She got her Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University. Her research interests include practice and theory of Landscape Architecture, public space and strollology, practice and methodology of urban regeneration. BIAN is also a youth member of Territorial Landscape Committee of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture as well as contributing editor of Chinese Landscape Architecture and Landscape Architecture.