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Book SynopsisWithout environmental justice, there can be no social justice.
The critical symptoms of human suffering, climate collapse and animal maltreatment are now global and far-reaching. Despite their interdependence, the treatment of these afflictions remains disconnected. What follows is policy and design decisions that fail to tackle the problems collectively.
Exposing the narrow perspectives that dominate architectural discourse and practice, this volume sets the table for inclusive architectural engagement during a time circumscribed by pandemic, climate change and inequality.
An respected group of international voices amplifies interactions relating to sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and environmental catastrophe, exploring how they are inextricably linked.
Without acknowledging the interconnectedness of these injustices, we will not find effective ways to halt the deepening crisis. Or be able to experience an architecture that addresses the effects of the human-centred Anthropocene age.
Readers are invited to imagine, rage, rail, protest, contest, channel, dream and envision from a position of humility, equity, and in some instances, experiential fury.
The future of architecture is contingent on working at the intersection.
Features: Marcos Cruz, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Antón García-Abril, Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Kerry Holden, Walter Hood, Joyce Hwang, Kabage Karanja, V. Mitch McEwen, Débora Mesa, Timothy Morton, Stella Mutegi, Brenda Parker, Carolyn Steel, McKenzie Wark, Kathryn Yusoff and Joanna Zylinska.
Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction: Beyond the Spaces of Speciesism
An Architectural History of Intersectionality by V. Mitch McEwen
Architecture is Dysphoric and Wants to Transition by McKenzie Wark
Non-Binary Ecologies by Harriet Harriss & Naomi House
Loser Images: A Feminist Proposal for Post-Anthropocene Visuality by Joanna Zylinska
Planetary Portals in the Upside-Down World by Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Kerry Holden, Kathryn Yusoff
From Anthropocene to Biocene: Novel Bio-integrated Designs as a Means to Respond to the Current Biodiversity and Climate Crisis by Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker
Sitopia: A Landscape for Human and Non-Human Flourishing by Carolyn Steel
The Anthropocene Museum: A Troublesome Trail of Improvision Towards the Chthulucene by Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi
Ca’n Terra: For Landscapes of the Post-Anthropocene by Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa
Pollinators Pavilion: The Architecture of Analogous Habitats by Ariane Lourie Harrison
The Wilding of Mars by Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg
Bat Cloud by Joyce Hwang
In Between Landscape – Nvidia Headquarters by Walter Hood
Final Word by Timothy Morton
