In our third installment of Questions & Answers, we look into the meaning of land-based.

Question: I am wondering what it means to be place-based. How does resilience grow out of it?

[CT] Place-based and land-based, from a designer’s point of view, are interchangeable.

These terms simply define the constituents which must be considered in the design and planning process. For me they also describe the foundations of my ethical compass and how I see myself relating to the world around me ...

[AH] And I would say, place-based and land-based are almost interchangeable.

A land-base includes all the individuals and their interactions that reside in a place (People); all the understandings, ideas, beliefs, and values that form the culture of a community (Knowledge); and all of the physical things - from the strata under our feet to the thin skies above us - that defines the character and composition of a space (Place).

PEOPLE : KNOWLEDGE : PLACE

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