Foreword: with video editorial

Abstract

The aim of this issue of Landscape Review is to turn the page on yet another chapter in the development of this landmark publication in landscape architecture. Having learned about the evolution of the goals of Landscape Review from Emeritus Professor Simon Swaffield and Professor Jacky Bowring, the new editorial team is repositioning the journal a little closer to home, in Oceania, a slight shift in the geospatial scope for us from the whole of the southern hemisphere to Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This focus seems more achievable, timely, relevant and strategic at this point for our profession and discipline, although our international aspirations remain steadfast. Our part of the world is unique in many ways: we are an archipelago of island nations and territories; our First Nations peoples are diverse and important to us; we have inherited legacies from British, French and Dutch colonisations; the Pacific Ocean and our maritime responsibilities are a critical part of what we do; and our region is flanked by the two most significant geopolitical powers of the twenty-first century, the United States of America and China. As landscape architects, we are also caught up in a global revolution of contested information, knowledge exchange and machine-learning. Our new Editorial Board reflects these interests and concerns for our region. We are therefore keen to traverse the discursive space between practice and research in Oceania with our authors, reviewers, editors and readers in this and coming issues.