Beyond the waves

photography.landscape.architecture. design.nature.sea.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

www.etsy.com/shop/AVYdesign CHECK OUT.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

AVY

www.etsy.com/shop/AVYdesign CHECK OUT. 

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

home to home.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

Do we even think about the importance of water in our everyday moments? WHO’S WATER IS IT?

When we wake up and start our day by releasing billions of small micro drops of liquid, do we consider it a pure gold and essential and core element for our exsistance? Probably not. It seems so obvious and reachable.

We’re not aware that our planet will not run out of water as it has nowhere else to go. However, due to wrong decisions and actions we can run out of clean drinking water...and that’s the thought we need to have in our heads every time we let it run for second, minutes without the need...

WATER cannot go anywhere, but all the dangerous and poisonus things can permeat through the water...and that’s the main thing we need to be aware of when we talk abot sustainability and conservation of world water resources. We’ re lucky to have the access to water supplies and most of the time not even slightly aware of that half of the countries around the world have a problem with low water quality and poor water resources...WE NEED TO CHERISH IT! Water makes up more than two thirds of human body weight, and without water, we would die in a few days...we people we tend to be selfish...and forget about the things that are far away from our eyes.... someone somwhere doesn’t have the power and option to access clean water, HOW CAN WE FIX THAT? WHAT CAN WE DO?

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

sunny surf day.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

The spatial paradox of nature conservation.

Nowadays there is a tendency to connect people with nature, but however we keep trying to separate people from it to protect nature with conservation strategies. Conservation strategies for biodiversity also work in the way that we think that substitution of a degraded area with biodiversity destroyed by human actions  with protecting a new one somewhere else is a good way of protecting a nature. We feel better by saying so and claiming the action is equally valuable. But the truth is we cannot fully return to nature by destroying one habitat and protecting the other. I feel it just a moral thing we humans need to feel ok with the actions we take. Strategies and visions make things a bit more rational by taking caution for future actions and chances for establishing the sustainability strategies worldwide. The same thing happens with visually attractive natural areas considered as unique or refered to as ''wilderness''. Most od these areas are located in rural areas and after being claimed as nature conservation areas, mostly become highly popularized and visited.  Not allowing degradation by taking actions like building, destroying it visual value ect., has a major role in protecting the area, but attracting visitors is also very risky if we want to leave the nature in its intact state. That is what is paradoxical. We want to protect nature from human actions by separating people from enjoying nature, but also we want to teach people to value natural areas. The major question is how would people value nature by not having the possibility to feel the value of nature and its important role for the wellbeing of each one of us. By trying to protect nature we need to be careful not to cut the connection between humans and nature and the importance of balance between it. Biodiversity is important and its a major question in what is moral and ethic to do and which being has more value. But considering the sustainability strategies which are popular today, the biggest success would be to teach people to value nature and the importance of conservation of natural sources and if we look at it from the more realistic point of view- people start to appreciate what they have or had when they lose it. That is why we need to design a proper strategies and start reconnecting humans with nature and rise the moral thoughts we have towards nature and its inhabitants. Isolating an area or object does not resolve its security or it doesn prevent its damage it just enlarges the vulnerability by making it surroundings less valuable.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

Environmentaly productive and socially seductive landscape

When considering landscape architecture projects as preferably mostly projects for society we need to define social needs, approaches and demands regarding what society wants and requires from their environment. Global climate change, natural catastrophes, bad global environmental state, vacant lots, revitalization of degraded lands, over exploitation of natural resources and recycling, sustainability, deurbanization and suburbanization are mostly the major issues todays landscape architects and planners are dealing with. All of them indirectly and directly connected to society or somehow  have an impact on the quality of their environment. That's why it is necessary when planning the landscape to have in mind what society wants and not just what it is necessary for revitalizing the degraded site. We cannot ignore the needs of modern societies. People appreciate technology and when considering landscape we appreciate the wildness of the real nature, but also on our escapes to ''natural places'' we also seek to be close to the needed technology and urban features. Thats way socially seductive landscape is a landscape that resolves environmental problems which also have a huge impact on the wellbeing of the society. For landscape to be socially seductive, society needs to find some benefits in it. We cannot advocate nature without the human impact, because todays society is based on the necessity of the intersection between natural and urban systems.As stated in the article ''Big Nature'' by Jane Amidon environment has become a social enterprise and society an environmental enterprise and that is why the plans which can me implemented in real-time situation need to have an strong background and a high level of a participation of a society. Socially seductive landscapes do not just have a aesthetic value nor are they just visually seductive. They have the power of linking people, linking areas and have the power of increasing sustainability. Socially seductive landscapes are landscapes which offer a wider range of possibilities how to plan a contemporary landscape with the integration and respectful attitude towards the unpredictable dynamics of the nature and changing needs of society.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

to the last star in the universe...we’ll fly. 

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

CITY AS NATURE

taken: Munich, Germany, 2015, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, 2016

When I firstly thought about the stuctures and sceneries which I could consider as City in the Nature example I thought about how people found ways to bring the nature inside of the city but in the way that it has some natural alive sturctures as trees and grass that build the areas but are structured in a way nature would never do that - it is planned - its urban ( vertical gardens, roofgardens, tree- lined lanes, parks ect.). All the parks and green areas in urban structure are mostly in my oppinion a way for people to connect with nature and for human beings to be able to satisfy the need to live close to the nature and fulfill the recreational and free time needs in nearby areas. That is why a tree -lined lane for me is an example of how natural structures as trees arrayed in some linear traits are considered because of the trees as natural space, but we all know that nature would never produce that kind of geometrical alignment. Nevertheless, it offers a feeling of walking through the nature inside of the urban structure. As shown in the compilation of photos, our perception can change due to our viewpoint our season time, that’s why urban wildness can never have a timeless characteristic as the real nature does.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

NATURE IN THE CITY

taken: Pula, St. Katarina barracks, Croatia, 2016

Nature in the City can represent the pieces which are considered by most of the population as ‘’nature’’ in urban surroundings, but in this case I have chosen a scenery in which we can see the power of the uncontrolled nature in urban structures. The photography was taken in the area of abandoned military barracks from the Austro - Hungarian era. The site was abandoned many years ago and it’s devastated and vacant. This area and the state in which you can find the vacant objects shows how nature always finds a way to regain its property - space - as a first landuse that exsisted. The area is left at nature’s mercy and it is a example of what a uncontrolled nature really can represent and create in the urban areas.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

CITY IN THE NATURE

taken: Zgornje Jezersko, Slovenia, 2016

I have chosen this photo as a example for the  City in the Nature theme. This photography represents how the necessity of urban infrastructure intersects with nature. Zgornje Jezersko is a small village in Slovenia which landscape is considered as  mainly nature conserved area. Even here, there is no exception that in that all natural environment, we can find objects which are connected with the urban landscape and are the result of human necessity to live in nature but have the comfort of the city/ urban lifestyle. In this case it is electricity, which represents one of the basic population demands. As shown in the photography, we can see that there is even in the landscapes which are considered as ‘‘nature’’  a large amount of urban structures and a lot of visible human lifestyle impacts. Nevertheless, it stays one of Slovenias favored places which offers connection with the nature.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

[beyond-d-waves-blog]

stormy days.

[beyond-d-waves-blog]