Excited to co-edit this issue of
@laplusjournal with Karen M’Closkey. Send us your abstract by 27 June ⬇️
LA+ FIELD // CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The word field conveys the idea of a space or place—physical, conceptual, or operational—within which relationships, forces, or activities occur. Field refers equally to perception—such as the fields of vision and sensing through which landscapes are seen and experienced—and to action, as in fieldwork from which observations build knowledge and/or which grounds theory in lived, material conditions. In scientific and cultural contexts, a field describes the networks of forces, relations, and influences operating across space and time. In educational and professional contexts, it defines what constitutes the methods and domain of a discipline. Together, these meanings establish the field as a dynamic interplay between thinking, knowing, making, and doing.
LA+ FIELD invites submissions that explore the concept of field in landscape architecture. We seek critical, theoretical, and practice-based perspectives organized around three interrelated categories: Field as Discipline, Field of Perception, and Field Work. Field as Discipline might examine landscape architecture’s intellectual, professional, and institutional terrain, including its boundaries, methods, histories, and evolution in response to environmental and social changes. Topics in Field of Perception may elucidate specific methods and techniques that shape the ways in which landscapes are sensed, experienced, interpreted, and represented. Field Work could engage material practices of observation, measurement, and intervention, including more-than-human studies, site-based experiments, and questions about relations, labor, and care. Priority will be given to abstracts that explore how two or more of these domains intersect and how they affirm or expand contemporary understandings of landscape architecture.
Email abstract and short bio to
[email protected] by 27 June 2026. For information on submissions, see /Submissions
