Kerb 25: Contested Landscapes + Disruptive Practices maps the value systems embedded in landscape — the boundary-making, resistance, and competing social, political, and economic forces that determine what landscapes become and who they serve.
About This Book
Landscape is never neutral. This twenty-fifth edition of Kerb confronts that premise directly, assembling voices from across disciplines to interrogate the conditions that produce contested landscapes and the disruptive practices that challenge or reinforce them. The journal asks whether the fractured demands of contemporary life — social equity, political contestation, economic pressure — can coexist with landscapes understood in their full ecological and cultural complexity. Produced through the Department of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University, Kerb has long positioned itself at the intersection of landscape architecture, urbanism, and critical theory. This issue upholds that reputation with contributions ranging from spatial practice to postcolonial critique.
Key Features
- 128 pages of cross-disciplinary essays, critical commentary, and visual practice
- Contributions from Kees Lokman, Ernesto Oroza, Alexandra Mei, Suvendrini Perera, Hotham Street Ladies, and others
- Edited by Bronwyn Geddes, Jia Jia, Sonja Lutz, Nina Middleton, Frances Shuttleworth, and Amélie Touboul
- Published by Uro Publications, 2019
What You'll Discover
- How value systems are constructed within landscapes — and how those systems can be contested or dismantled through design and activism
- The role of boundary-making as both a spatial and political act in shaping contemporary landscapes
- Whether holistic landscape thinking is compatible with the competing social, economic, and political demands of the twenty-first century
- Perspectives from outside landscape architecture — postcolonial theory, material culture, and community practice — brought into productive dialogue with the discipline
About the Author
Kerb is an annual cross-disciplinary design journal produced through the Department of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University School of Architecture and Urban Design. This edition was edited by Bronwyn Geddes, Jia Jia, Sonja Lutz, Nina Middleton, Frances Shuttleworth, and Amélie Touboul. The journal draws its themes from issues central to contemporary landscape architectural discourse while actively welcoming contributions from adjacent and overlapping fields.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780648435556
- Publisher: Uro Publications
- Publication Date: 2019
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban designers, and critical theorists interested in the politics of space, ecological practice, and the contested nature of contemporary landscapes.