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Grass is all around us, and precisely that omnipresence has made us blind to its complexities. Grass(es) are used as a representation of ‘Nature’ as a whole. However, cultural inclinations play a big part when perceiving a landscape, individually and collectively. As a result assumptions about about the opposition between ‘nature' and ‘culture’ are at heart in our landscaping tendencies. Starting with invasive grassspecies in the dunes I found the problems in the way I assumed this landscape is ‘natural’. When looking beyond the dunescape I found ‘Grasscapes’ in The Hague that might ‘feel’ more artificial but can be dubbed ‘natural’. My goal was to research the cultural ideas of ‘nature' and ‘cultivation’ through grass(es). Every patch and strand of grass is (in)direct result of human intervention. In essence I found that nature does not exist, but the concept of natural landscapes is a human invention. These grasses seem to belong to the dunes but they are in fact an example of the cultivated landscape. In their origin of cultivation they are similar in covering the landscape in endless monoculture, similar to the green, manicured lawns. By comparing different grasses in the context of human intervention I want to argue that ‘nature’ only exists as a constructed idea. Nature might not be found, but the idea of it can be cultivated. In my research I have aimed to create a space in which non-linear links become evident throughout the text. In every example and type of grass the underlying assumption of the binary between ‘The cultivated’ and ‘ Nature.
typeresearch exposition
keywords'nature', grass-scapes, 'Nature', cultivation of the idea of nature
date28/06/2025
last modified28/06/2025
statusin progress
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licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3778377/3778378
external linkwww.elinetenbusschen.nl


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