Kerb 26: Homelands confronts landscape architecture's entanglement with colonial power structures, gathering voices from displaced, marginalised, and traditionally custodial communities to ask what the discipline owes the people it has historically worked against.
About This Book
Six centuries of European colonial expansion have fundamentally reshaped land, culture, and belonging across the globe. This issue of Kerb takes that inheritance seriously, examining how landscape architecture — a discipline shaped by Western modes of authority over space — might begin to work in genuine collaboration with those it has long marginalised or suppressed. Drawing together essays, projects, and cross-cultural exchanges, Homelands maps the complex terrain between complicity and possibility. It is essential reading for landscape architects, urban designers, and anyone grappling with the politics of space, sovereignty, and decolonial practice.
Key Features
- 128 pages of essays, projects, and cross-cultural exchange on landscape architecture and colonial legacy
- Edited by Albert Rex, Jesika Ellul, Julie Demary, Michelle Thomas Zacharias, Rachel Flock, and Will Muhleisen
- Contributors include Revathi Sekhar Kamath, The Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation, Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Juliette Anich, Jefa Greenaway, and Charles Massy
- Published by Uro Publications, 2019
What You'll Discover
- How landscape architecture's origins in Western power structures have shaped — and distorted — the discipline's relationship to land and its custodians
- The conditions facing fragmented, displaced, and marginalised peoples as a direct consequence of colonial resource extraction and cultural suppression
- What productive, asymmetric cross-cultural collaboration between landscape architects and traditional custodians might actually look like in practice
- A range of international perspectives that push the discipline toward accountability, from Indigenous Australian voices to practitioners working across the Americas
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. Each issue is shaped by an editorial team drawn from within the department; Volume 26 was edited by Albert Rex, Jesika Ellul, Julie Demary, Michelle Thomas Zacharias, Rachel Flock, and Will Muhleisen. The journal draws its themes from issues pertinent to contemporary landscape architectural discourse while actively seeking contributions from outside the discipline.
Specifications
- Format: Journal
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780648435549
- Publisher: Uro Publications
- Publication Date: 2019
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban designers, and design academics engaging with decolonial practice, Indigenous land rights, and the ethics of cross-cultural collaboration in spatial disciplines.