Intercultural Construction of Landscape
摘要
Landscape can be understood as a result of key sociocultural principles. In relation to diverse mosaic societies, landscape science and practice should incorporate an understanding of the perceptions, viewpoints, ideologies and interpretations of landscape through use of intercultural approaches. The increase in societal diversity, that is, the relationship between individual, social, and structural similarities and differences in relation to people and social groups, is a defining phenomenon for the twenty-first century. Accompanied by the loss of significance of national histories, religions, worldviews, behavioral and perceptual patterns, and aiming at explaining the plurality of societal structures, the term mosaic societies is used. Every culture that has a differentiating effect should be respected accordingly. These often incorporate developments which are thousands of years old and of great significance to human history. Fundamental cultural characteristics are more or less overlain by events that change attitudes and values, such as migration, flight, and disasters (Bruns and Münderlein 2016, Münderlein 2016). Culturally sensitive scientific and practical engagement with landscape also includes careful use of landscape related terms. Of particular societal interest are needs, requirements, and values that people attach to different parts of their spatial environment and its condition. When dealing with landscape, care must be taken to ensure that landscape perception and the needs of all groups of pluralistic populations translate into spatially relevant common good decisions.