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"https://media.voog.com/0000/0044/0363/files/1_Definition%20of%20the%20Profession%20of%20Landscape%20Architect%20for%20the%20International%20Standard%20Classification%20of%20Occupations.pdf", "what_it_supports": "ILO occupation definition: plan and design landscapes and open spaces and monitor construction, maintenance and rehabilitation.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "coe-elc-recognition-2019", "title": "Professional recognition of landscape architects, CEP-CDCPP (2019) 6E", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Council of Europe Landscape Convention context; title protection and regulation vary by state; IFLA/ELC wording of the profession; ILO recognition history.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "elc-2000", "title": "European Landscape Convention (Florence, 2000)", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/European_Landscape_Convention", "what_it_supports": "Legal definition of landscape and of landscape protection, management and planning; training of specialists; application to outstanding, everyday and degraded landscapes.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q2815948", "title": "landscape architect (Q2815948)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2815948", "what_it_supports": "Occupation identifiers: ISCO-08 2162, ISCO-88 2141, ESCO 2162.1, and field-of-occupation link to landscape architecture.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikipedia-landscape-architect", "title": "Landscape architect", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_architect", "what_it_supports": "Practice contents (site analysis, grading, planting, SuDS, specification); practice settings; national title forms (CMLI, PLA/RLA).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "gbci-sites", "title": "SITES | Developing Sustainable Landscapes", "url": "https://www.sustainablesites.org/about", "what_it_supports": "SITES v2 as a GBCI rating system for designed outdoor sites, originating with ASLA, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "site-context-and-landscape-intent", "name": "Site context and landscape intent", "description": "Defines the place being transformed, the conditions inherited and the outcomes the landscape is intended to support.", "rationale": "A landscape decision cannot be judged without distinguishing site constraints, surrounding dependencies and deliberate design intentions.", "layers": [ { "id": "site-extent-and-inherited-conditions", "name": "Site extent and inherited conditions", "description": "Locates intervention boundaries and the existing landscape features that shape the project.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-envelope-and-retained-features", "name": "Intervention envelope and retained features", "description": "Records where landscape work is proposed or present and which existing terrain, vegetation, water features or cultural traces constrain change.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the intervention boundary, and which catchments, habitat connections or access routes extend beyond it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intervention-envelope-and-retained-features-q01" }, { "text": "Which surveys or records establish existing features, and which features are designated for retention, alteration or removal?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intervention-envelope-and-retained-features-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "landscape-programme-and-character", "name": "Landscape programme and character", "description": "Connects intended activities and landscape character to explicit spatial outcomes.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-experience-and-priorities", "name": "Intended experience and priorities", "description": "Records the experiences, activities and place qualities the design seeks, including tensions between them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which outdoor activities, experiences and landscape qualities define success for this project?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-experience-and-priorities-q01" }, { "text": "When recreation, habitat, heritage, views or water management conflict, which priorities and decision authority guide a change?", "kind": "action", "id": "intended-experience-and-priorities-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "spatial-composition-and-material-form", "name": "Spatial composition and material form", "description": "Explains how terrain, planting and constructed elements create outdoor spaces and relationships.", "rationale": "An inventory of components does not capture the spatial design that makes them function as a landscape.", "layers": [ { "id": "landform-and-spatial-sequence", "name": "Landform and spatial sequence", "description": "Records how grading and spatial arrangement create enclosure, transitions, outlooks and connections.", "findings": [ { "id": "terrain-shaped-spaces", "name": "Terrain-shaped spaces", "description": "Connects proposed or observed landform to the spaces, thresholds and views it produces.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do terrain, planting masses and edges define outdoor rooms, arrival points and transitions?", "kind": "definition", "id": "terrain-shaped-spaces-q01" }, { "text": "What elevations, slopes and sightline conditions establish whether those spatial relationships are realised?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "terrain-shaped-spaces-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "planting-and-constructed-elements", "name": "Planting and constructed elements", "description": "Records the compositional roles and physical interfaces of living and constructed landscape elements.", "findings": [ { "id": "element-roles-and-interfaces", "name": "Element roles and interfaces", "description": "Identifies how planting, paving, walls, furniture and water features work together and where their requirements conflict.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which elements provide canopy, screening, enclosure, orientation, seating or focal points, and how do those roles change as planting grows?", "kind": "definition", "id": "element-roles-and-interfaces-q01" }, { "text": "Which root zones, foundations, pavement edges or service clearances must be checked before an element is installed or replaced?", "kind": "action", "id": "element-roles-and-interfaces-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "living-systems-and-water", "name": "Living systems and water", "description": "Connects soils, vegetation and water movement to the landscape's intended environmental functions.", "rationale": "The viability of a designed landscape depends on interacting living and physical processes that change after construction.", "layers": [ { "id": "soil-and-vegetation-viability", "name": "Soil and vegetation viability", "description": "Records whether planting conditions support the intended vegetation and habitat structure.", "findings": [ { "id": "planting-suitability-and-development", "name": "Planting suitability and development", "description": "Relates planting choices and expected development to rooting conditions, exposure and observed health.", "questions": [ { "text": "What measured soil depth, rooting volume, compaction, drainage and exposure conditions support or constrain each planting zone?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "planting-suitability-and-development-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the proposed planting's suitability and its expected contribution to habitat at this site?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "planting-suitability-and-development-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "landscape-water-pathways", "name": "Landscape water pathways", "description": "Records how water enters, moves through, is stored within and leaves the landscape.", "findings": [ { "id": "water-routing-and-planting-demand", "name": "Water routing and planting demand", "description": "Connects grading, infiltration, storage, overflow and irrigation to landscape performance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under which stated rainfall or irrigation conditions have runoff paths, storage, infiltration and overflow behaviour been observed or assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "water-routing-and-planting-demand-q01" }, { "text": "Where does landscape water management depend on off-site inflows, drainage infrastructure or an external water supply?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "water-routing-and-planting-demand-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "outdoor-use-and-experience", "name": "Outdoor use and experience", "description": "Evaluates how people reach, navigate, occupy and experience the designed landscape.", "rationale": "A landscape may match its drawings while failing to support intended users under actual weather, movement and occupation patterns.", "layers": [ { "id": "movement-and-inclusive-access", "name": "Movement and inclusive access", "description": "Records route continuity and the physical conditions affecting different users' movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-route-network", "name": "Usable route network", "description": "Connects entrances and destinations through routes whose accessibility and conflicts can be examined.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which entrances, destinations and landscape experiences are connected by continuous usable routes, and where are there barriers or detours?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "usable-route-network-q01" }, { "text": "What route widths, gradients, crossfalls, surface conditions and resting opportunities have been measured for the intended users?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-route-network-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "occupation-and-microclimate", "name": "Occupation and microclimate", "description": "Relates places to sit, gather or play to exposure, comfort and competing uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "seasonal-usability-of-outdoor-spaces", "name": "Seasonal usability of outdoor spaces", "description": "Records whether occupation areas support their intended activities at relevant times and under relevant environmental conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What shade, wind, surface temperature or wetness conditions occur in key occupation areas during their intended periods of use?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "seasonal-usability-of-outdoor-spaces-q01" }, { "text": "Which planting, shelter, seating or circulation changes could address observed discomfort or use conflicts without undermining other landscape intentions?", "kind": "action", "id": "seasonal-usability-of-outdoor-spaces-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "realisation-and-landscape-stewardship", "name": "Realisation and landscape stewardship", "description": "Tracks the transition from design to construction, establishment and continuing landscape care.", "rationale": "Landscape outcomes depend on construction quality, biological development and recurring management rather than a single completion event.", "layers": [ { "id": "construction-and-establishment", "name": "Construction and establishment", "description": "Distinguishes specified conditions, installed conditions and evidence of successful establishment.", "findings": [ { "id": "built-conformance-and-establishment-evidence", "name": "Built conformance and establishment evidence", "description": "Records deviations and establishment outcomes that affect the functioning of the designed landscape.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which as-built records and inspections verify finished levels, soil preparation, drainage connections and planting installation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "built-conformance-and-establishment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated observations of survival, growth, erosion, settlement or ponding indicate that establishment criteria are met or require corrective work?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "built-conformance-and-establishment-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "maintenance-and-adaptive-change", "name": "Maintenance and adaptive change", "description": "Connects recurring care and longer-term interventions to the landscape's intended development.", "findings": [ { "id": "care-regime-and-intervention-triggers", "name": "Care regime and intervention triggers", "description": "Records the management needed to sustain landscape functions and the conditions that justify revising the design or care regime.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which mowing, pruning, irrigation, sediment removal or replacement operations sustain each zone's intended character and function, and who can deliver them?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-regime-and-intervention-triggers-q01" }, { "text": "What observed thresholds trigger renewal or redesign, and which seasonal patterns or growth stages should be accepted as intended change?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-regime-and-intervention-triggers-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Site planning and site design (parks, campuses, housing, streets, civic outdoor space)", "Landscape planning at communal to regional scale (landscape programmes, structure plans, policy and impact assessment)", "Urban landscape and public-realm design (streetscapes, squares, green infrastructure in cities)", "Garden and planting design", "Cultural and historic landscape conservation", "Ecological restoration, nature-based solutions and stormwater landscapes", "Landscape management and maintenance planning", "Landscape urbanism and infrastructure-as-landscape practice" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of landscape architecture this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q2815948", "note": "Occupation item 'landscape architect'; field of this occupation is landscape architecture." }, { "scheme": "ISCO-08", "value_or_pattern": "2162", "note": "ILO unit group Landscape architects, adjacent to 2161 Building architects and 2164 Town and traffic planners." }, { "scheme": "ISCO-88", "value_or_pattern": "2141", "note": "Predecessor occupation class recorded on Wikidata for landscape architect." }, { "scheme": "ESCO", "value_or_pattern": "2162.1", "note": "ESCO occupation 'landscape architect'; UUID 52207284-2681-40d3-a317-ec81ca1b3e41." }, { "scheme": "EU regulated-professions database", "value_or_pattern": "id_profession=6480", "note": "European Commission Growth database entry for landscape architect, used to record which member states regulate the title." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of landscape architecture this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ISCO-08 unit group 2162 - International Labour Organization (occupation classification, not a practice licence).", "European Landscape Convention (Florence, 2000; now Council of Europe Landscape Convention) - Council of Europe: landscape protection, management and planning, and specialist training.", "Council of Europe recommendation on professional recognition of landscape architects (CEP-CDCPP 2019) - urges States Parties to recognise the profession nationally and internationally.", "EU Professional Qualifications Directive - European Union: criteria for treating landscape architecture as a regulated profession (protected title, qualifications, reserved activities) where a member state so provides.", "ASLA Definition of Landscape Architectural Practice (2002, revised 2018 and 2023) - American Society of Landscape Architects: model statutory scope for licensure.", "IFLA World definition of the profession (voted September 2020) - International Federation of Landscape Architects, submitted to ILO for ISCO revision.", "SITES v2 Rating System - Green Business Certification Inc. (originated by ASLA, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, United States Botanic Garden): third-party certification of sustainable designed sites.", "National title and practice laws (examples: German chamber registration as Landschaftsarchitekt; US state licensure as PLA/RLA; UK chartered membership of the Landscape Institute) - issued by national legislatures, registration boards or professional chambers, not by a single global code." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of landscape architecture this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Consultancies prepare site inventories, master plans, grading and drainage, planting and hardscape drawings, specifications and cost estimates for parks, schools, housing, campuses, roads and commercial outdoor space, then administer construction.", "Municipal parks, public-works and planning departments employ landscape architects on green-space plans, streetscapes, SuDS and development review.", "Heritage, conservation and water authorities use them for cultural-landscape conservation, degraded-landscape rehabilitation and nature-protection management.", "Where the title is licensed, sealed drawings are submitted for planning and building permits; practitioners also give expert evidence, run competitions and write landscape policy.", "Projects may be documented against SITES or related green-building systems, and are routinely coordinated with architects, civil engineers, ecologists and urban planners." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of landscape architecture this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Full professional education volume (IFLA advice)", "typical_range": "300 (minimum advised for a complete landscape-architecture education)", "unit": "ECTS credits" }, { "quantity": "Designed-site area (site-design commissions)", "typical_range": "0.1-100 (gardens and streetscapes at the low end; parks and campuses at the high end; regional landscape plans are larger and measured in km²)", "unit": "hectare" }, { "quantity": "Accessible walking-surface longitudinal slope in designed public routes", "typical_range": "0-5 (steeper grades are used for landform and drainage, not for primary accessible paths)", "unit": "percent" }, { "quantity": "ISCO occupation code (fixed classifier, not a measured quantity)", "typical_range": "2162", "unit": "ISCO-08 unit group" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of landscape architecture this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Planting and soil failure: wrong species, compacted or contaminated soils, inadequate establishment care, or invasive introductions that collapse the designed vegetation.", "Grading and drainage failure: ponding, erosion, downstream flooding or slope instability from mis-modelled landform and stormwater.", "Public-safety hazards in occupied landscapes: trip and fall surfaces, falling limbs, unsafe water edges, playground and CPTED failures.", "Heat-island and ecological harm when hardscape, lighting or habitat fragmentation are over-specified relative to canopy, soils and connectivity.", "Maintenance mismatch: a design that cannot be funded or staffed reverts, creating liability and lost public value.", "Unlicensed or mis-titled practice, and scope collisions with architecture or engineering, producing unlawful documents or gaps in public-welfare responsibility." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of landscape architecture this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English landscape architect versus German Landschaftsarchitekt, French architecte paysagiste, Portuguese arquitecto paisagista, Brazilian paisagista, Chinese 风景园林师: IFLA notes non-English titles are normal and not always literal translations.", "Title protection is uneven in Europe: some states protect the title and require chamber or state registration (e.g. Germany, France, Italy, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Netherlands); others allow the name without regulation; a few still contest the word architect in the title.", "United States practice is state-licensed (PLA/RLA); United Kingdom recognition is typically Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI), not a uniform EU-style reserved-activity statute.", "IFLA's 2020 definition is read in Germany as stronger on large-scale ecological planning than on settlement- and building-adjacent design, which German chamber practice treats as core.", "The European Landscape Convention applies landscape policy to land, inland water and marine areas and to outstanding, everyday and degraded landscapes; some national landscape laws historically covered only nature/rural scenery and excluded towns." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of landscape architecture this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Architecture (building architecture)", "difference": "ISCO 2161 versus 2162: the object of design is buildings and interior-to-envelope construction, not landform, planting, open space and outdoor construction documents; collaboration is routine, substitution is not." }, { "name": "Urban and regional planning", "difference": "ISCO 2164: planners allocate land use, infrastructure and policy; landscape architects design and manage the physical landscape and open-space systems that those policies permit. A zoning map is not a grading and planting construction set." }, { "name": "Landscape gardening / garden design", "difference": "Garden design and contracting are horticultural and craft practices for private grounds; landscape architecture, where regulated, is a public-welfare profession that also covers regional planning, stormwater, specification and contract administration. Overlap exists on small gardens; the test is scope, qualification and whether drawings may be legally sealed." }, { "name": "Civil / site engineering", "difference": "Engineers size structures, roads, utilities and drainage systems as infrastructure; landscape architects integrate those systems with landform, vegetation, use and visual/ecological performance. Shared stormwater work is separated by whether the primary product is a hydraulic structure or a designed landscape." }, { "name": "Landscape ecology", "difference": "A scientific field explaining pattern and process in landscapes; landscape architecture is a design-and-management profession that may use that science but is retained to change places, not only to model them." }, { "name": "Urban design", "difference": "Urban design centres on the form of streets, blocks and the built public realm; landscape architecture centres on landscape as the medium (soils, water, plants, landform) even when the site is a city square. 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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"evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a landscape architecture is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a landscape architecture, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a landscape architecture, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", 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"text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a landscape architecture, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a landscape architecture is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a landscape architecture from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a landscape architecture, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a landscape architecture, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a landscape architecture is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a landscape architecture passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a landscape architecture between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a landscape architecture, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a landscape architecture, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a landscape architecture is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a landscape architecture, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a landscape architecture is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a landscape architecture, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a landscape architecture, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a landscape architecture is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a landscape architecture proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a landscape architecture, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a landscape architecture and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a landscape architecture, and 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"text": "How is landscape architecture operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of landscape architecture and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of landscape 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overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a landscape architecture and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a landscape architecture, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a landscape architecture, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a landscape architecture is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a landscape architecture is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a landscape architecture, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a landscape architecture, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a landscape architecture is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }