Reply To: State of the Profession

[nca]

Ugh.

Yes, I get that our professionas are dependent, at least in large part, to development and the business of development whether we like it or not. I get it.

What I was trying to say in the last reply about things needing to change was essentially conceding to both your points. I was saying that greater mechanisms beyond the realm of landscape architecture and design would need to change operation before we see the kind of idealistic changes we all would probably prefer, ie vast economic, cultural, and political shifts that will probably never happen in our lifetime.

I work on all kinds of projects every day, including right now that I am morally at odds with. The only thing that keeps me doing this is that I think I can affect positive change in small increments by being good at what I do.

I’m asking you to step outside the professional/political sphere. I can only concede at this point that perhaps I am jaded by my own experience here in CO.

Is there not a bigger picture here? Do we only see what lands on our desks? I’m just asking the questions, I’m not trying to pose a new way of doing business.

Really I probably should have prefaced the questions above with another question,–do we give a damn about the land for any purpose other than to make a profit?