Memory of the Designed Landscape
Inventory
In 2020, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) commissioned the Nieuwe Instituut to investigate how to deal with archives in the field of garden and landscape architecture. How do we store this material, and how do we keep it accessible? Up until now, archiving garden and landscape architecture has not been designated as a public task, and there is no clear address where archives can be kept.
This research was conducted by Noël van Dooren en Marieke Francke. It was based on discussions and meetings with various actors, primarily focusing on the professional practices of Dutch garden and landscape architects. It mapped the playing field, exploring the bottlenecks, opportunities for improvement and expectations of a long-term perspective for garden and landscape architecture archives.
On 8 July 2021, Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven received the research report Memory of the Designed Landscape. The Importance of Archiving Garden and Landscape Architecture. On this occasion, she indicated that she wanted to facilitate a follow-up study, in which the recommendations from the report would serve as guidelines. The most important of these were a programmatic approach and the choice of a network form.