The Landscapists (Architectural Design)

 

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Who defines the landscapes around us?

What practices are employed as contemporary landscapes are produced?

This issue argues that landscapes are made and remade through interrelations between people and the worlds around them – from geographers investigating the lives of urban wastelands to landscape architects projecting future cities, and from migrants navigating border systems to artists working with local residents.

In contrast to tendencies to emphasise the physical forms of landscapes, with their potential to be redesigned and represented in drawings, this issue brings to the forefront the social constructedness of landscapes by focusing on a range of critical practices and daily actions.

As conventional frames of landscape are challenged, other ways of measuring, mapping, imagining, designing, building and occupying  them are revealed.

For centuries, artists and designers have represented landscapes of power in paintings and have transformed them through their design proposals.

But in recent years a number of researchers, designers, artists and activists have explored an expanded field of landscape, investigating populations fleeing conflict zones, reimagining cities facing ecological challenges, questioning territorial claims, and critiquing processes of urbanisation.

This issue focuses on some of these individuals whose work and lives encompass a diverse range of practices, brought together through their critical redefinition of landscape relations.

 

Contributors: Pierre Bélanger, Harry Bix, Neil Brenner and Nikos Katsikis, Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson, James Corner, Gareth Doherty and Pol Fité Matamoros, Matthew Gandy, Christina Leigh Geros, Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, Nina-Marie Lister, Richard Mosse, Kate Orff, Toya Peal, Neil Spiller, Tiago Torres Campos and Tim Waterman.

Featured practices: Advanced Landscape and Urbanism, Design Earth, East Anglia Records, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Furtherfield, James Corner Field Operations, Larissa Fassler, LCLA office, OPSYS and SCAPE.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Chapter 1  Intro  Les Paysagistes: Expanding, Producing, Contested Fields of Landscape

Chapter 2  Designing Momentums: Site, Practice, Media as Landscape

Chapter 3  Operational Landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene

Chapter 4  Trash Peaks: A Terrarium of the Anthropocene

Chapter 5  Inwood's Geofollies: And Other Witnesses of Dissonance

Chapter 6  Pelagic Alphabet: Islands as a Model of the Ocean

Chapter 7  Advanced Landscapes: A Structured Pedagogy of Process

Chapter 8  Meal-Deal Ecologies: Landscape Thinking

Chapter 9  Working Place: Constructing Collage as Critique

Chapter 10  Landscape Drift: Something in the Air Tonight

Chapter 11  Time Portals, Love Machines, Land Oracles: Hybrid Geography and the Situated Digital

Chapter 12  Landscape City: Infrastructure, Natural Systems and City-Making

Chapter 13  What is Design Now?

Unmaking the Landscape

Chapter14  From Line to Landscape: The Irish Northwest Border Region

Chapter15  At a Tangent: Delineating a New Ecological Imaginary

Chapter 16  Nation Against Nature: From the Global Border to the Cross-Border Commons

Chapter 17  No Design on Stolen Land: Dismantling Design's Dehumanising White Supremacy

Chapter 18  From Another Perspective – St Alfege: Hawksmoor Speaking Across Time