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
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