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Land Art and Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park
highlights regenerative artworks that respond to this pivotal
moment in human history and inspire viewers to embrace the beauty,
abundance, and cultural vibrancy of a world that has left fossil
fuels behind. Featuring three hundred color images, the book
includes essays by Robert Ferry, Peter Kurz, Elizabeth Monoian,
Alessandra Scognamiglio, and Sven Stremke to bring attention to
design projects and landscape architecture where environmentalism
is part of the concept, not an afterthought.
Energy Overlays provides a glimpse into our post - carbon future
where energy infrastructure is seamlessly woven into the fabric of
our cities as works of public art. Fifty designs use a variety of
renewable energy technologies to arrive at innovative site -
specific solutions. Power plants of the future will be the perfect
place to have a picnic! On the foreshore of St Kilda with the
skyline of Melbourne as a backdrop rises a new kind of power plant
- one that merges renewable energy production with leisure ,
recreation, and education. Energy Overlays provides a roadmap to
our sustainable future with essays about the energy transition and
beautiful renderings and diagrams of more than fifty designs. The
result is a city where the infrastructures that power our world are
designed to be reflections of culture, where public parks provide
clean electricity to the city grid, and where the art that makes
our lives more vibrant and interesting is also part of the solution
to climate change.
The Land Art Generator Initiative is one of the world's most
exciting design competitions and for its 2019 challenge, entrants
from around the world were asked to create a renewable
energy-producing artwork for the UAE's Masdar City in Abu Dhabi.
The winning designs are profiled in this generously illustrated
volume. Each work demonstrates the aesthetic possibilities of
renewable energy infrastructures. Capturing energy from nature and
then converting it into power, these designs provide more than
clean electricity to the city's residents. They also offer space
for recreation and contemplation, while challenging our assumptions
about ecological systems, resource generation, consumption, energy
storage, and climate change solutions. Best of all, they illustrate
the possibilities of living well in a post-carbon future.
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