The term 'taskscape' is often credited to
social anthropologist Tim Ingold. As Ingold has described the term: "just as the
landscape is an array of related features, so – by analogy – the taskscape is an array of related activities." Taskscape, then is a socially constructed space of human activity, understood as having spatial boundaries and delimitations for the purposes of analysis. Of key importance, is that ''taskscape'' as well as ''landscape'', is to be considered as perpetually in process rather than in a static or otherwise immutable state.
Tim Ingold coined the term in his 1993 article
[1] defining the spatial and temporal dimensions of the
landscape in human life. He considers it as a methodological structure and analyses the temporality of the landscape in
Pieter Bruegel's famous painting,
The Harvesters.
References
1. Ingold, Tim. (1993) "The Temporality of the Landscape", ''World Archaeology'', 25(2): pp. 24-174
See also
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Landscape
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Seascape
External links
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Ingold's site at the University of Aberdeen, includes full bibliography