I am a landscape architect with experience in urban and territorial planning, especially regarding landscape conservation and sustainable development. I also find interest in the way landscape is perceived through film and how this can be used as a teaching and representation tool in landscape studies. I have a diverse theoretical and practical experience in projects at different scales and complexity, a BA in Landscape Architecture, and MSc in Landscape Planning. I am an outdoor person and love the environment. This is reflected in my hobbies as I was a professional alpine skier, but also in my career choice. I am an opened person, eager to lean and explore new things. Address: Odense 5000 Denmark
Urban Markers: Exploration, Tactics and Actions into Brăila, Romania, 2016
Of all the arts, cinematography has the closest relationship with the city. Since its beginnings,... more Of all the arts, cinematography has the closest relationship with the city. Since its beginnings, it has mirrored the urban society and the way it exists; it is a new technology of representing the environment for a world that experiences constant changes brought upon by the Industrial Revolution.
The relationships between film and landscape can be approached from various perspectives based on how one relates to the interacting fields: cinematography, architecture, urbanism, geography, imagology, semiology, sociology, etc. Some of these will represent a starting point in researching the relationship between landscape and film as instrument of representation.
National conference: ARCHITECTURAL DAYS 2013: Architecture of the Landscape and the City
Today, our society is changing with constant speed raising the question of how we understand and ... more Today, our society is changing with constant speed raising the question of how we understand and design our world, our vision of it. Landscape, as a synthesis between architecture and urbanism , asks for new theoretical and practical research due to new design tendency. Charles Waldheim, professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, identifies two typologies concerning this issue (Landscape video – transcription, experience, narration, 2011). The first one refers to a synoptic system (conditioned by GIS applications and orthophotoplan) and the second one to scenography, sensitive and subjective representation (rendering images, collages and photo/video montages). This paper explores the sensitive perspective in landscape studies, how landscape is depicted in cinema as a cultural shared vision of a certain matter. It synthetizes a theoretical framework about landscape engaging in set design, the landscape ambiance and the dramatic, documentary and sub-textual roles of landscape.
Journal of Singapore Institute of Planners. Planning Studies & Practice, 2012
Because urban space represents first of all the people, the interface between the city and the so... more Because urban space represents first of all the people, the interface between the city and the society, it has an important role. Urban landscape, as the result of this interaction, is the way the user relates to the city, through the urban public space. As specialists, we have the power to operate with the urban space, to assign or reassign an identity, to change its configuration, to complete it with activities, to create an atmosphere or to intuit the specificity of territorial context. But how can we do this? What landscape elements are continuous, particular and what elements or characteristics are evanescent? Moreover, how are the users modifying the urban space to make it respond to their dynamics? And what are in fact the self-adjusting capacities of the public urban space? This paper aims to ensure a common understanding between the designer and the user of the public space, to create a dialogue between the atmosphere of yesterday’s city and the dynamics of the city of tomorrow. It wants to test and understand the capacity of the public space to react to the user’s behaviour, but also to see the capacity of the user to adapt to everyday changes of the public space, to filter a large amount of information in order to understand and respond to the urban development.
The main purpose of this research is to complete the toolkit for landscape study taking into
acco... more The main purpose of this research is to complete the toolkit for landscape study taking into account the way a society, characterized by movement, evolves to a continues increase of living environment rate of transformation. The research highlights the importance of dynamic analysis of the landscape and the need for appropriate tools that can capture and sustain its movement. The interaction between film and landscape is covered in two directions that relate to techniques and significance. It follows a method that is based on several steps: how the landscape is filmed, shown in various film productions (via the database of landscape videos) and how a montage is able to conveys a specific message.
Urban Markers: Exploration, Tactics and Actions into Brăila, Romania, 2016
Of all the arts, cinematography has the closest relationship with the city. Since its beginnings,... more Of all the arts, cinematography has the closest relationship with the city. Since its beginnings, it has mirrored the urban society and the way it exists; it is a new technology of representing the environment for a world that experiences constant changes brought upon by the Industrial Revolution.
The relationships between film and landscape can be approached from various perspectives based on how one relates to the interacting fields: cinematography, architecture, urbanism, geography, imagology, semiology, sociology, etc. Some of these will represent a starting point in researching the relationship between landscape and film as instrument of representation.
National conference: ARCHITECTURAL DAYS 2013: Architecture of the Landscape and the City
Today, our society is changing with constant speed raising the question of how we understand and ... more Today, our society is changing with constant speed raising the question of how we understand and design our world, our vision of it. Landscape, as a synthesis between architecture and urbanism , asks for new theoretical and practical research due to new design tendency. Charles Waldheim, professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, identifies two typologies concerning this issue (Landscape video – transcription, experience, narration, 2011). The first one refers to a synoptic system (conditioned by GIS applications and orthophotoplan) and the second one to scenography, sensitive and subjective representation (rendering images, collages and photo/video montages). This paper explores the sensitive perspective in landscape studies, how landscape is depicted in cinema as a cultural shared vision of a certain matter. It synthetizes a theoretical framework about landscape engaging in set design, the landscape ambiance and the dramatic, documentary and sub-textual roles of landscape.
Journal of Singapore Institute of Planners. Planning Studies & Practice, 2012
Because urban space represents first of all the people, the interface between the city and the so... more Because urban space represents first of all the people, the interface between the city and the society, it has an important role. Urban landscape, as the result of this interaction, is the way the user relates to the city, through the urban public space. As specialists, we have the power to operate with the urban space, to assign or reassign an identity, to change its configuration, to complete it with activities, to create an atmosphere or to intuit the specificity of territorial context. But how can we do this? What landscape elements are continuous, particular and what elements or characteristics are evanescent? Moreover, how are the users modifying the urban space to make it respond to their dynamics? And what are in fact the self-adjusting capacities of the public urban space? This paper aims to ensure a common understanding between the designer and the user of the public space, to create a dialogue between the atmosphere of yesterday’s city and the dynamics of the city of tomorrow. It wants to test and understand the capacity of the public space to react to the user’s behaviour, but also to see the capacity of the user to adapt to everyday changes of the public space, to filter a large amount of information in order to understand and respond to the urban development.
The main purpose of this research is to complete the toolkit for landscape study taking into
acco... more The main purpose of this research is to complete the toolkit for landscape study taking into account the way a society, characterized by movement, evolves to a continues increase of living environment rate of transformation. The research highlights the importance of dynamic analysis of the landscape and the need for appropriate tools that can capture and sustain its movement. The interaction between film and landscape is covered in two directions that relate to techniques and significance. It follows a method that is based on several steps: how the landscape is filmed, shown in various film productions (via the database of landscape videos) and how a montage is able to conveys a specific message.
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The relationships between film and landscape can be approached from various perspectives based on how one relates to the interacting fields: cinematography, architecture, urbanism, geography, imagology, semiology, sociology, etc. Some of these will represent a starting point in researching the relationship between landscape and film as instrument of representation.
This paper explores the sensitive perspective in landscape studies, how landscape is depicted in cinema as a cultural shared vision of a certain matter. It synthetizes a theoretical framework about landscape engaging in set design, the landscape ambiance and the dramatic, documentary and sub-textual roles of landscape.
As specialists, we have the power to operate with the urban space, to assign or reassign an identity, to change its configuration, to complete it with activities, to create an atmosphere or to intuit the specificity of territorial context. But how can we do this? What landscape elements are continuous, particular and what elements or characteristics are evanescent? Moreover, how are the users modifying the urban space to make it respond to their dynamics? And what are in fact the self-adjusting capacities of the public urban space?
This paper aims to ensure a common understanding between the designer and the user of the public space, to create a dialogue between the atmosphere of yesterday’s city and the dynamics of the city of tomorrow. It wants to test and understand the capacity of the public space to react to the user’s behaviour, but also to see the capacity of the user to adapt to everyday changes of the public space, to filter a large amount of information in order to understand and respond to the urban development.
Thesis Chapters by Irina Pata
account the way a society, characterized by movement, evolves to a continues increase of
living environment rate of transformation. The research highlights the importance of dynamic
analysis of the landscape and the need for appropriate tools that can capture and sustain its
movement. The interaction between film and landscape is covered in two directions that relate
to techniques and significance. It follows a method that is based on several steps: how the
landscape is filmed, shown in various film productions (via the database of landscape videos)
and how a montage is able to conveys a specific message.
The relationships between film and landscape can be approached from various perspectives based on how one relates to the interacting fields: cinematography, architecture, urbanism, geography, imagology, semiology, sociology, etc. Some of these will represent a starting point in researching the relationship between landscape and film as instrument of representation.
This paper explores the sensitive perspective in landscape studies, how landscape is depicted in cinema as a cultural shared vision of a certain matter. It synthetizes a theoretical framework about landscape engaging in set design, the landscape ambiance and the dramatic, documentary and sub-textual roles of landscape.
As specialists, we have the power to operate with the urban space, to assign or reassign an identity, to change its configuration, to complete it with activities, to create an atmosphere or to intuit the specificity of territorial context. But how can we do this? What landscape elements are continuous, particular and what elements or characteristics are evanescent? Moreover, how are the users modifying the urban space to make it respond to their dynamics? And what are in fact the self-adjusting capacities of the public urban space?
This paper aims to ensure a common understanding between the designer and the user of the public space, to create a dialogue between the atmosphere of yesterday’s city and the dynamics of the city of tomorrow. It wants to test and understand the capacity of the public space to react to the user’s behaviour, but also to see the capacity of the user to adapt to everyday changes of the public space, to filter a large amount of information in order to understand and respond to the urban development.
account the way a society, characterized by movement, evolves to a continues increase of
living environment rate of transformation. The research highlights the importance of dynamic
analysis of the landscape and the need for appropriate tools that can capture and sustain its
movement. The interaction between film and landscape is covered in two directions that relate
to techniques and significance. It follows a method that is based on several steps: how the
landscape is filmed, shown in various film productions (via the database of landscape videos)
and how a montage is able to conveys a specific message.