We are still a young profession
There's a lot of uncertainty out there but I was chatting with a friend and we had a refreshing conversation and it primarily revolved around how we are in a transformational phase of landscape architecture as a field and scope and our integration of scientific thinking at an early stage.
We think there will be many new ways in which we communicate our work, but that will depend on how well we become as communicators. We need to be more confident and we need to be well informed about the capacity each of our projects brings in terms of wealth. I'm still struggling with this myself and I realize it asks us to confront our personality traits and our intertia, and the current relationships we have with clients and other consultants.
Does our discipline depend on better defining ourselves clearly in terms of skillset from architects, engineers and planners, or allowing for fluidity of what we do to be interpreted and stay as larger storytellers? Maybe asked another way, in 10 years do we still have a set musical instrument or are we orchestrators, and composers focused? I know, I know, we come in many different shapes and sizes.
Please share any thoughts you have on this!