Issue 45, Spring 2025
Guest edited by Hélène Ibata et Gwendolyne Cressman
This issue explores the changing concept of landscape amidst contemporary environmental and epistemological shifts. Traditionally rooted in early modern aesthetic ideals that externalized nature through pictorial and garden forms, landscape today struggles to capture the realities of human-altered environments and ecological crises. Recent discourse critiques landscape as a limiting, objectifying framework and calls for its radical redefinition beyond human-centered aesthetics, advocating for an inclusive engagement with the more-than-human world. Interdisciplinary and intermedial perspectives now redefine landscape as a dynamic relational space, inhabited and experienced corporeally and sensorially, rather than merely observed. These approaches integrate cultural geography, phenomenology, geopoetics, and artistic practices to bridge divides between nature and culture, past and present, human and non-human agency. Medial explorations—spanning poetry, performance, visual art, and local ecological narratives—challenge dominant environmental representations and enable the articulation of suppressed voices and novel temporalities. The volume underscores landscape’s continued relevance as a site of ecological relationality and pluralistic narratives, highlighting its potential to foster more respectful, inclusive forms of environmental awareness and action amid the ongoing Anthropocene.