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‚Curating Landscapes‘ describes a planning approach whose practices, strategies,
theoretical perspectives and terminologies follow the paradigm of 'design through
care'. The concept reacts to the dynamics of landscapes through sensitivity, and
openness instead of trying to control them.

As a digital platform, CURATING LANDSCAPES aims to depict caring planning
practice. Convicitoned of collective knowledge, the platform is intended to help
shape the concept of 'curating landscapes' and act as an educational tool in the
planning sector. Your contributions will be collected in an interactive card index
and grow into a 'spectrum of caring landscapes', which will then be graphically
processed into a critical diagram.

The term “curating” is derived from the ethnological Latin word root “curare”,
which refers to the meaning of care. The act of “curating” refers to the choice and
selection in design and planning processes, which inevitably result in taste
determinations that shape the design of culture, society or the
environment. (Elke Krasny, 2022) Accordingly, curating is never value-neutral,
but always harbors aesthetic, epistemic, ethical, social and political implications,
responsibilities and consequences.

Care as speculative ethics explores how alternative ways of thinking and acting
go beyond human interests and thereby integrate non-human forms of life into
lived networks.