Introduction 7.Jochen Boberg About the rebirth of a world view 10.Heike Strelow A dialogue withongoing processes 16.Massimo Venturi Ferriolo Landscape ethics From Signs to Sculptural Places 22.Jale Erzen Ecology,art, ecologicalaesthetics 50.Vera David Poetic Spaces 74.Herman prigann Prologue - thoughts about nature 90.Amy lipton and patrica Watts Ecoart : ecological art 96.Alfio Bonanno, Jackie Brookner, Susan Leibowitz Steinman Materials 104. Peter Finke On the heritage of nature in culture From Sculptural places to Landscape Transformation 110.Dialogue between Jacques Leenhardt and Herman Prigann Ecological aesthetics or aesthetic ecology 116.Udo Weilacher Ecological aesthetic in landscape architecture today? 128.Jorg Dettmar Ecological and aesthetic aspects of succession on derelict industrial sites 162.Werner Schenkel The metabolism of a society and its aesthic design 170.Timothy Collins Towards an aesthetic of diversity Integrative Landscape Art 180.Herman Prigann Art and Science - perspective and ways of an ecological aesthetic 188.Marta Gonzalez del Tanago and Diego Garcia de Jalon Ecological aesthetics of river ecosystem restoration 202.Malcolm Miles Aesthetics and engagement : interested interventions 214.Herman Prigann Integrative conversion : the TERRA NOVA project 238.Hildegard Kurt Aesthetics of sustainability 242.Klaus Topfer Art and ecology - from the point of view of cultural politics Appendix 247.Acknowledgements 248.Bibliography 251.Initiator, Editors, Authors Designers 253.Illustrarion credits 254.Index of designers and their projects