Kerb 27: Selective Perceptions confronts the politics of inclusion in the built environment, asking designers to account for who public space is truly built for — and who it routinely fails.
About This Book
At a moment when questions of equity, access, and representation are reshaping public discourse, Kerb 27 turns those questions on the discipline of design itself. Produced through the Department of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University's School of Architecture and Urban Design, this issue examines how structural inequity — across race, class, gender, age, physical ability, and sexuality — is encoded into the built environment, often by omission as much as intention. With contributions from practitioners and thinkers including Walter Hood, Claire Martin, Roberto Boettger, Simone Bliss, and Charlie Clemoes, the journal maps the terrain between democratic design aspiration and exclusionary spatial reality. Essential reading for landscape architects, urban designers, and anyone working in the public realm.
Key Features
- 128 pages of cross-disciplinary essays, design criticism, and practitioner contributions addressing inequality in the built environment
- Contributions from Walter Hood, Claire Martin, Roberto Boettger, Simone Bliss, Charlie Clemoes, and others
- Edited by Benjamin Jameson, Emily Sinyavker, Gary Ward, Reuben Chan, and Shanley Price
- Published by Uro Publications, 2020
What You'll Discover
- How structural inequity across race, class, gender, age, and physical ability is reproduced through spatial design decisions
- The ethical responsibilities designers hold in shaping public space — and the consequences when those responsibilities go unmet
- Practitioner perspectives on designing inclusively for marginalised and dispossessed communities
- The ongoing tension between the ideal of a democratic built environment and the exclusionary realities of contemporary urban space
About the Author
Benjamin Jameson served as lead editor of this issue, working alongside a five-person editorial team including Emily Sinyavker, Gary Ward, Reuben Chan, and Shanley Price. Kerb is an annual cross-disciplinary design journal produced through the Department of Landscape Architecture at RMIT University School of Architecture and Urban Design, drawing contributors from within and beyond the landscape architecture discipline.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780648435570
- Publisher: Uro Publications
- Publication Date: 2020
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban designers, and spatial practitioners engaged with questions of equity, accessibility, and the politics of public space; design academics and students working at the intersection of social justice and built environment discourse.