Abstract
In the process of a participatory landscape planning, sharing a spatial image is one of the most important concerns. The original method of Landscape Image Sketching Technique was examined theoretically first and then tested empirically in field studies. The humanistic and flexible idea of the landscape image was defined as a way of seeing the world, which connects the physical and symbolic aspects of landscape as well as personal environmental orientation and social construction. The method with scene sketches was devised improving previous mapping methods and carried out in two kinds of forest regions in Germany and Japan. As a result, the symbolic landscape images for representative regional postcards appeared not one and only but diverse in each region in terms of the influences from personal experiences, regional knowledge and cultural sense of beauty. The research finding suggests that the landscape image can be analyzed by using visual data represented in scene sketches.
