Landscape @Lincoln - Place and context in the development of an antipodean landscape architecture programme

Abstract

The first 50 years of landscape architecture education at Lincoln University in Aotearoa-New Zealand is interpreted as four phases of development. First, the Landscape ‘Apostles’, a period in the 1960–70s establishing the country’s inaugural programme. Second, ‘No 8 Wire’, as the programme adapted to the socio-economic and political transformations of the ‘The New Zealand Experiment’ in the 1980s. Third, ‘Overseas Experience’ focused on building international relationships to enhance research capacity and student numbers. Fourth, ‘Future Shock’ involving local adaption to successive regional and global crises in the 21st century. The authors argue that the programme’s character expresses strategic adaptions to changing institutional, regional, national, and global contexts. Imperatives for the future include strengthening partnerships with Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa-NZ, and design and planning responses to climate change, within a context of sustainable development.