Reading Landscape explores how creative practitioners interpret, construct, and reimagine landscape through acts of making, observing, mapping, walking, drawing, and environmental engagement. 

Bringing together artists, architects, landscape practitioners, and designers, this collection examines how creative practice can function as a way of reading landscape: not only as physical terrain, but as cultural text, ecological process, and site of memory, imagination, and transformation. Rooted in contemporary Scottish contexts while engaging broader environmental and interdisciplinary concerns, the volume considers how climate, culture, terrain, and material histories shape relationships to place. Across reflective essays, visual projects, and practice-based “field actions,” contributors explore how artistic and spatial methodologies generate situated forms of environmental knowledge and reveal patterns, histories, and relationships that conventional disciplinary approaches may overlook.

Organized around themes including ecology and stewardship, landscape and memory, and poetic approaches to mapping and meaning, the book moves across architecture, landscape architecture, environmental art, design research, and interdisciplinary place-based inquiry. The collection foregrounds creative practice not simply as representation, but as an active mode of translation and engagement through which landscapes are experienced, interpreted, and contested. It offers an accessible and visually rich contribution to landscape studies, environmental humanities, creative fieldwork, and practice-led research. The result is a collection that invites readers to approach landscape as a dynamic site of ecological, cultural, and imaginative possibility.