김정화
Superior Trees: Creating a Forest in the First Korean Arboretum, 1922–1945
28 June 2021, 4pm (CET)
A Map of Model Forest, in Catalogue of the Japanese Government-General of Korea Forest Experiment Station (朝鮮總督府林業試驗場一覽), 1937.
막스 플랑크 예술사연구소 (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – MPI)의 4A_Lab Seminar 에서 'Superior Trees: Creating a Forest in the First Korean Arboretum, 1922–1945'라는 제목으로 일제시기 임업시험장의 공간 디자인에 담긴 모델 숲에 대한 연구 결과를 발표한다.
본 세미나는 온라인으로 진행되며 녹화가 이루어진다.
날짜: 2021년 6월 28일(월요일)
시간: 4pm (CET), 11pm (한국 시간)
참여: 4a_lab@khi.fi.it 또는 junghwa101010@gmail.com으로 사전 신청 필수
The Central Forest Experiment Station of Korea, which was established in 1922 and evolved into the first Korean arboretum, played a role in transforming devastated mountains into thriving woodlands on the Korean Peninsula during the Japanese colonial era. Its model forest, along with a research centre for the study and collection of trees and a nationwide network of nurseries for cultivating and supplying saplings, aimed at providing scientific and standard forests to regreen the bare hills all around Korea. The process of developing model forests, however, involved not only scientific forestry but also political and aesthetic considerations. The key strategy for the construction of an ideal forest relies on a tree match to identify superior tree species from Korea, Japan, Europe, and America, thereby selecting the dominant tree species. This comparative investigation based on the growth properties of tree species from different regions sparked a competition of landscapes, especially between the ideologies of localism and universalism or imperialism. The belief in the “tasteless” Korean landscape and the Japanese ideologies of a sylvan tradition and sylvan nationalism led to the introduction of Japanese and Euro-American flora – such as the Japanese cedar, the Japanese larch, and the American catalpa – in the Korean Peninsula. Accordingly, the model forest was designed as to be suitable for the observations and measurements of the competition and to improve the legibility of each forest section. Through a review of the tree collections and layout of the arboretum, this presentation highlights the scientific, political, and aesthetic ideas underpinning the creation of forests in colonial Korea.
김정화
Superior Trees: Creating a Forest in the First Korean Arboretum, 1922–1945
28 June 2021, 4pm (CET)
A Map of Model Forest, in Catalogue of the Japanese Government-General of Korea Forest Experiment Station (朝鮮總督府林業試驗場一覽), 1937.
막스 플랑크 예술사연구소 (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – MPI)의 4A_Lab Seminar 에서 'Superior Trees: Creating a Forest in the First Korean Arboretum, 1922–1945'라는 제목으로 일제시기 임업시험장의 공간 디자인에 담긴 모델 숲에 대한 연구 결과를 발표한다.
본 세미나는 온라인으로 진행되며 녹화가 이루어진다.
날짜: 2021년 6월 28일(월요일)
시간: 4pm (CET), 11pm (한국 시간)
참여: 4a_lab@khi.fi.it 또는 junghwa101010@gmail.com으로 사전 신청 필수
The Central Forest Experiment Station of Korea, which was established in 1922 and evolved into the first Korean arboretum, played a role in transforming devastated mountains into thriving woodlands on the Korean Peninsula during the Japanese colonial era. Its model forest, along with a research centre for the study and collection of trees and a nationwide network of nurseries for cultivating and supplying saplings, aimed at providing scientific and standard forests to regreen the bare hills all around Korea. The process of developing model forests, however, involved not only scientific forestry but also political and aesthetic considerations. The key strategy for the construction of an ideal forest relies on a tree match to identify superior tree species from Korea, Japan, Europe, and America, thereby selecting the dominant tree species. This comparative investigation based on the growth properties of tree species from different regions sparked a competition of landscapes, especially between the ideologies of localism and universalism or imperialism. The belief in the “tasteless” Korean landscape and the Japanese ideologies of a sylvan tradition and sylvan nationalism led to the introduction of Japanese and Euro-American flora – such as the Japanese cedar, the Japanese larch, and the American catalpa – in the Korean Peninsula. Accordingly, the model forest was designed as to be suitable for the observations and measurements of the competition and to improve the legibility of each forest section. Through a review of the tree collections and layout of the arboretum, this presentation highlights the scientific, political, and aesthetic ideas underpinning the creation of forests in colonial Korea.