Landscape Linguistics and Hebrew Metaforms
Creating a Language of Landscape Design for Jewish Meaning and Identity

Yoshi Silverstein

So you're building a Jewish garden, farm, gathering place, courtyard, or campus. Jewish architectural design has a small but established vocabulary of forms and modalities (e.g. synagogues, museums, sculpture), but no such parallel exists for Jewish landscape architecture. So how do you reflect the values and ideals your Jewish community strives to embody in the landscape? How do we tell Jewish stories, express Jewish ideas, values, symbols, language, meaning, and identity through physical cues and expressions ... and what does Kabbalah have to do with stormwater management?

Recorded live at the Global Day of Jewish Learning, November 20, 2016. Yoshi Silverstein represented Hazon.

Landscape Linguistics and Hebrew Metaforms: Creating a Language of Landscape Design for Jewish Meaning and Identity
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