Given the ongoing climate and socio-ecological emergencies, it is paramount to support a socially just rethinking of the world we inhabit, which is intrinsically dependent on the health of the earth’s systems. This requires a radical transformation of the role of environmental designers in developing propositions, mitigation strategies and advocacy initiatives.
This issue of AD explores the principles behind the Green New Deal and how they apply to the architectural and landscape professions. Whatever form the Green New Deal will take and is taking, it will be materialised through infrastructure, buildings, landscapes and various other constructed forms. The contributors to this AD examine the theoretical frameworks and design practices within which the protocols of the Green New Deal could be integrated. Initially, such a goal requires a survey of the available design tools and methodologies necessary to achieve a transition to a decarbonised economy in an equitable manner. The articles feature design practices who are transforming their existing modes of operation to work in environments were fossil fuels are kept well below ground, and to explore renewable forms of local, regional and planetary urbanisation.
Contributors: Lindsay Bremner; Miriam Brett and Mathew Lawrence; Billy Fleming, Christina Geros, Jon Goodbun and Godofredo Enes; Kai Heron and Alex Heffron; Jane Hutton; Daniel Kiss and Swadheet Chaturvedi, Elena Luciano, Yasmine Yehia and Rafael Martinez, Liam Mouritz and Alex Breedon; Clara Oloriz; Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió; and Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass and Filip Mesko.
Featured architects: Groundlab, Monsoon Assemblages, and Julian Siravo.
Table of Contents
About the Guest-Editor 5
José Alfredo Ramírez
Introduction 6
Designing Landscapes
How Policies Shape the World
José Alfredo Ramírez
Visualising a 12
Transformative Space that Puts People
and Climate First
Miriam Brett
Crises and 20
Contestations
The Promise and Peril of Designing a Green New Deal
Billy Fleming
‘Raising the Stakes 28
for Landscape’ in the Climate Crisis
Clara Olóriz Sanjuán
Just Transition 36
Rewiring Carbon-Pollutant Landscapes and Labour into a Community Forestry Framework
Elena Luciano Suastegui, Rafael Martinez Caldera and Yasmina Yehia
Dynamic Domains of 44
Antarctica
A Design Model of Global Commons in Sync
with Planetary Metabolism
Daniel Kiss and Swadheet Chaturvedi
Take Back the Land 54
Godofredo Enes Pereira, Christina Leigh Geros and Jon Goodbun
Making Space for 62
Green Work
Julian Siravo
Taking Apart 70
Buildings and Systems
In Converstaion with
Mae Bowley of Re:Purpose Savannah
Jane Mah Hutton and Alison Creba
The Red Deal 78
Decolonising Climate Action
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió and Danika Cooper
Design Perspectives 86
from the Global South
The Case of Mexico
José Alfredo Ramírez
Country-Led 96
Approaches in Land Management and Design
Liam Mouritz and Alex Breedon
Monsoonal Solidarity 104
A Global Approach to Climate Justice
Lindsay Bremner
Town, Country and Wilderness 112
Planning the Half-Earth
Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass and Filip Mesko
Towards the Abolition of the Hinterlands 120
Kai Heron and Alex Heffron
From Another Perspective 128
A Rapturous Delight in the Natural World
Laurie Chetwood
Neil Spiller
