Today, for the first time since man has learned to walk upright, it has become possible for individuals to exist totally independent of their naturally given or physically constructed or shaped environment (hitherto, in short, called «landscape»).

How do these new options, increasingly made use of by ever increasing numbers of people, change the relationship between individual and landscape?
Is there something getting lost?
Is this space, which provided us with lots of experiences but which we also, all the time, filled with desires and expectations, vanishing? Is it something past?
Are we entering post-Arcadian times?
Are individuals and landscape drifting apart?
Do we, still, face up to landscape? Do we, still, take landscape into account?

The Rapperswil Meeting 2009 wants to make the relationship between man and landscape its topic for discussion. On the one hand, examples will be given how landscape is used and shaped today, in cities and in the countryside. On the other hand, we want to elucidate our relationship to this «something» which we are part of but which may have/probably has its own soul – and to suggest possibilities how this relationship can be renewed, strengthened, and intensified.

We are looking forward to your participation!

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