Nr 2–3/2018 ISSN 2657-327X

nr 2–3/2018 ISSN 2657-327X Publikacja wydana ze środków grantu Instytut Kultury Europejskiej UAM Projekt graficzny: 0059/NPRH4/H2b/83/2016 Instytut Filozofii UW Ewa Mikuła, Katarzyna Turkowska nr 2—3/2018 ISSN 2657-327X DOI 10.14746/pls Publikacja wydana ze środków grantu 0059/NPRH4/H2b/83/2016 Publisher: Instytut Kultury Europejskiej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego Editorial Board: Dorota Angutek (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Poland) Timothy Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom) Arto Hapaala (University of Helsinki, Finland) Marcus Köhler (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) Iwona Lorenc (Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland) Urszula Myga-Piątek (Uniwersytet Śląski, Poland) Ewa Rewers (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poland) Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska Editorial Team: Beata Frydryczak (Editor-in-Chief) — Adam Mickiewicz University Mateusz Salwa (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) — University of Warsaw Magdalena Gimbut (Thematic Editor) — Polish Language and Culture Centre, ZJUNIT, China Monika Stobiecka (Liaison Associate) — University of Warsaw Guest Editor: Monika Weychert Translation: Szymon Nowak Proof reading: Kamil Lemanek Graphic Design: Ewa Mikuła, Katarzyna Turkowska Typesetting: Monika Rawska / Legut 2—3/2018 Table of Contents 5 Editorial 7 Aesthetics and ecology in the post-modern perspective Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska 15 “Green” and “grey” ecologies as a notional context of contemporary artistic practices Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska 21 Some remarks on plant art Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska 27 Wildlife in urban parks—why sustain it? Maciej Luniak 35 From blight to beauty: the controversial creation of the first U.S. industrial-heritage park Tanya Whitehouse 57 Garden—non-garden. Contemporary trends in transformation of greenery as an instrument in the contest for the city Beata J. Gawryszewska 83 Garden policies of the Warsaw housing cooperative: the garden and the right to the city Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska 99 Schreber’s gardens and Jordan’s gardens as elements of created nature: the example of Katowice Ryszard Nakonieczny 117 Informed aesthetic consensus and the creation of urban environments Johannes Müller-Salo 133 Christopher Tilley, Kate Cameron- -Daum, An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, UCL Press, London 2017. Book review Monika Stobiecka ISSN 2657-327X Editorial The present volume of the Polish Journal of Landscape Studies is dedicated to the mem- ory of the late Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska (1951—2017), who was one of the found- ers of the journal and a member of its editorial board. Its contents are inspired by her own inquiries into ecology and deal with environmental subjects. that she was generally interested in. Anna was a philosopher and an eminent culture scholar specialized in modernity and postmodernity. Her role in establishing and developing culture studies in Poland cannot be overstated. What is more, she definitely opted for interdiscipli- nary or transdisciplinary approaches and tirelessly strove to offer opportunities for exponents of different disciplines and approaches to meet as often as possible. Her way of achieving this goal was based on editing books and periodicals as well as organizing academic conferences. This is one of the reasons why she so warmly welcomed the idea of founding the Polish Journal of Landscape Studies Anna was also one of the organizers of Miastonatura. Zielona przyszłość miast? (Citynature: A Green Future of Cities?), a conference that took place on April 21, 2017, and was made possible thanks to the cooperation of Instytut Badań Przestrzeni Publicznej (Public Space Research Institute) of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences. The main objective of the conference was to reflect upon the place and role of nature in contemporary cities. Anna approached the issues of nature and ecology from the standpoints of aesthetics, culture studies, and—finally—culture-oriented science and technology studies. Although ecology was only one of many theoretical issues that she devoted herself to, her intellectual commitment to the field can be traced through the years. This is the reason we have decided to open the volume with three of her texts. The first one, dating back to 1992, is an attempt at defining a field where ecology (understood as reflection on human environment) and aesthetics (taken at its broadest etymological meaning, i.e., understood as the realm of sensibility) could meet in the postmodern era. Her article from 2000 is, in turn, an analysis of the topic of art raising ecological questions within the context of the ethics of responsibility. Her sudden passing put an abrupt end to her work, leaving several articles unfinished, including the paper she presented at the aforementioned conference, Citynature, that was intended to be included in the present volume. Nevertheless, we have opted to publish it unfinished in the form of a transcription of the talk she gave at the conference, participating in the session City—art—nature. Anna ended her speech with a number of open questions concerning the role of gardening practices in contemporary art. As has always been characteristic for her, she thus offered us all a challenge and an incentive to proceed with our own research. Her texts are followed by a selection of papers given by the participants of the Citynature conference. Anna divided ecological practices into “grey” ones that she identified with technological solutions remediating the ecological crisis and “green” ones such as creating natural parks or protecting endangered species. The latter are analyzed by Maciej Luniak, who refers to his study of the natural resources of one of the city parks in Warsaw. Other green and grey practices are described by other authors. Tanya Whitehouse discusses a controversial case of a post-industrial park, whereas Beata J. Gawryszewska presents the changes that city greenery has recently been subject to and that are rooted in a new manner of imagining gardens. Going further, Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska and Ryszard Nakonieczny offer insight into the history of Polish green space design and management. The topic of public vs private spaces is pivotal for Johannes Müller-Salo, who claims that we need an aesthetic consensus—just as we need an ethical one—when city spaces are being designed. We believe that the issues of environment, aesthetics, and ethics, which formed the axis of Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska’s thought, have to be discussed in various contexts—theoretical, practical, as well as historical—since we have to thoroughly understand them if we want to have a green future in cities and elsewhere. And it seems that even though it may sound utopian, if we want to have a future at all, it has to be green. ISSN 2657-327X DOI 10.14746/pls. 2018.2.3.1 Aesthetics and ecology in the post-modern perspective † Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska Abstract The analysis sets out from the exhibition entitled Ressource Kunst. Die Elemente Neu Gesehen. The author attempts to outline an area which emerges from the encounter of ecology (as a domain of reflection about the human surroundings) and aesthetics (as a discipline concerned with sensory experience) from the standpoint of post-modernism. The inquiry thus focuses on the moment in which contemporary artistic practices “internalize” ecological issues. Aesthetics becomes a branch of ecology, but at the same time ecology becomes a domain within aesthetics. According to the author, post-modernism has offered advantageous perspectives for pursuing ecological postulations. Key words Aesthetics, art, ecology, post-modernism In 1989, Berlin (still West Berlin at the time) saw an extensive international exhibition (or rather a network of events) initiated by the city’s Senate: Ressource Kunst— die Elemente neu gesehen (Jappe 1989). On the cover flap of the book under the same title, which documented that political-artistic undertaking (supplemented with critical texts and brief pre-history of the “new seeing”), one reads that until recently the eponymous term had been largely associated with the material and energetic resources of nature, which appeared to be “gushing gifts of life,” gifts that were inexhaustible and therefore widely and freely exploited. Today the notion is accompanied by ecological awareness determined by the principle of responsibility. According to the organizers, the tenet is implemented in art by a new generation of artists who, on the one hand, go beyond the confines of the paradigm of optimistic (progressive) modernity and, on the other, transcend “land art,” “arte povera,” or the experiments of Joseph Beuys. As it turns out, in contemporary times there is † The original version of this text appeared as “Estetyka i ekologia w perspektywie postmodernistycznej,” in Estetyka a ekologia[Aesthetics and Ecology], edited by K. Wilkoszewska, Kraków: Uniwersytet Jagielloński 1992, 81—88. Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska “an urgent need” to seek alternative locations, find materials which neither suffer nor cause harm, look for devices which provoke no injury, “means of approaching objects” instead of the erstwhile methods of “taking them in possession”. In other words, considerable portions of today’s artistic practice cease to be merely an illus- tration of ecological issues but, in a manner of their own, internalize it. In this approach, aesthetics

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