The Landscapists 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10: 1119540089
• ISBN 13: 9781119540083
• Author: Ed Wall

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.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Les Paysagistes: Expanding, Producing, Contested Fields of Landscape
2. Designing Momentums: Site, Practice, Media as Landscape
3. Operational Landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene
4. Trash Peaks: A Terrarium of the Anthropocene
5. Inwood’s Geofollies: And Other Witnesses of Dissonance
6. Pelagic Alphabet: Islands as a Model of the Ocean
7. Advanced Landscapes: A Structured Pedagogy of Process
8. Meal-Deal Ecologies: Landscape Thinking
9. Working Place: Constructing Collage as Critique
10. Landscape Drift: Something in the Air Tonight
11. Time Portals, Love Machines, Land Oracles: Hybrid Geography and the Situated Digital
12. Landscape City: Infrastructure, Natural Systems and City-Making
13. What is Design Now?: Unmaking the Landscape
14. From Line to Landscape: The Irish Northwest Border Region
15. At a Tangent: Delineating a New Ecological Imaginary
16. Nation Against Nature: From the Global Border to the Cross-Border Commons
17. No Design on Stolen Land: Dismantling Design’s Dehumanising White Supremacy
18. From Another Perspective: St Alfege: Hawksmoor Speaking Across Time

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