Registration Eligibility
n/a
Start Date
05/03/2019
End Date
05/04/2019
Description
As a form of play, sports are deeply embedded in human nature and culture. Throughout history, organized sports and sport-like activities have had considerable impact on how we design and understand landscapes. Correspondingly, designed and pre-modern “natural” landscapes have contributed to the formation and development of new sports and cultures of movement and the body. With the increasing commodification of these activities, new types of landscapes continue to be created across the globe, invariably transforming our living environment in the process.
This symposium seeks to explore the design of different sport and recreational landscapes over time and how they have given expression to various understandings of nature and culture.
The symposium explores this new ground in landscape history and landscape studies by gathering together presentations by scholars who will address the intersections of landscape, body, and movement cultures in the period ranging from early modern times to today.
Location
Washington, DC
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Historic Preservation
Horticulture / Plants
Parks & Recreation
Site Planning
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
11.0
Learning Outcomes
1) What are the relationships between sport landscapes and their environment?
2) What is the relationship between the site itself and the culture of sports and recreation embedded within it?
3) How have sport landscapes, like the activities and their cultures, been tools for colonization?
4) How do they embody constructions of race, place, gender, and identity?
5) How have body and movement cultures, medicine, and public health movements shaped sport landscapes?
6) And conversely, how have landscapes and the ideas of landscape shaped the specific sports grounds?
Instructors
Katherine Bentz, Jeffrey Blankenship, Richard Cleary, Simon David, Dorothée Imbert, Christian Jaser, Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Fabiola Lopez-Duran, Brian McCammack, Erica Munkwitz, Sun-Young Park, Kay Schiller, Christian Tagsold
Course Codes
Provider
Dumbarton Oaks