Re-forming landscape from the common: An ethic-aesthetics perspective

The aim of this paper is to consider the possibilities of landscape as a tool to build space from the common. To do so, I will discuss the polysemy of landscape and its implications in the landscape-community linkage. This reflection will enable me to criticize the effects of the hegemony of feelings of the beautiful and the sublime and the prevalent view of identity in our consumerist society, and its implications for participation processes regarding the landscape. As an alternative, I will show the advantages of a poietic perception, derived from a conception of landscape as an action inside. This way of relating landscape and community contributes to a certain way of inhabiting and transforming the territory that works under a notion of community based on Esposito’s concept of communitas and on contributions from the ethics of care and ecofeminism.