CLR's landscape visualization theme explores and prototypes ways that visual digital media can help people think about landscape, engage in spatially related dialogue and creatively negotiate solutions to landscape issues.
Computational research and creative practice efforts at the CLR are focused on the development of information technology as a more powerful medium for intellectual inquiry and creative design of the environment. Projects undertaken by CLR seek to improve design thinking through the addition of computational technology to professional design and public decision-making. The work of this theme is closely aligned with the Canadian Design Research Network (CDRN).
The Centre for Landscape Research's work is predicated on the assumption that better access to information permits a democratic and therefore more equitable approach to the solution of complex value laden environmental problems. As educators, we see our mandate as that of improving the overall spatial literacy of society. Better information and better ways of operating on data needed to debate design issues are central products of CLR activity.
For more information on this theme contact CLR co-director John W. Danahy at land@clr.utoronto.ca
