Reply To: What Trends will Influence Garden Design and Landscape Architecture in 2013?

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I don’t think that is the point, henry, of thinking about ‘trends’. I geuss one could question whether there are ‘trends’ but there certainly used to be – the
Bauhouse, the Impressionists, were all part of a group consciousness that reflected not only the history of thought on a particular topic, but the current state of the thinking process. Cubism and on down to Jackson Pollack are all part of a thought process that painters were having, about the nature of reality, the nature of paint, light, etc.

I think we are all very wise now, with access to way more information than we can process, so human thought seems to not be trendy, but more scattered, and multidirectional.

On the other hand, we may be too close to see the trend. I think the science of genetics is going to influence all of us a lot, personally, and I wish that as a people we could have the state of the natural world influence us more. If we could have that society that did not depend on growth, on purchasing things….

So your comment, Henry, IMHO, does not address the question. Of course you won’t design by ‘trends’. But as a collective mass of human ants, busy busy busy, we may be, and historically certainly have, created ‘trends.’