mechanisms of transformation...

“if we understand the landscape at the outcome of an action or a chain of actions, applied simultaneously or at different times, we can posit the designing of the landscape by deciding on the actions that will bring about the transformation of the existing landscape and generate a new one.

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the designing of the landscape is converted into a designing of actions: we decide upon the mechanisms of transformation in contrast to an aesthetic and static final image. the resulting form is in part a surprise, inasmuch as it depends on the response of the environment, ever complex, and to some extent unpredictable. and the landscape thus generated goes on behaving, as did the pre-existing one, dynamically; interacting in time with all kinds of actions, to which it remains permanently exposed.”

manuel ruisanchez, from: landscape +, GG, 2007

the physicist and society...

two illustrations under the title "the physicist and society" from transformation, issue 3, 1952. these images, by "frere amer" (probably a pseudonym) were used to illustrate an article by francis bitter called "the potentials of physics". they most certainly are referencing apollinaire's calligrammes, if you click on them, you can see them larger and read the text...