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 Belanger, Harry Bix, Neil Brenner
and Nikos Katsikis, Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson, James
Corner, Gareth Doherty and Pol Fite 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.
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