Kerb 29: Wild turns a critical eye on the systems humanity has built to civilise and control the natural world, asking whether reimagining wildness might be the necessary first step toward undoing their most destructive consequences.
About This Book
At a moment of climate crisis, pandemic, species extinction, and widespread land degradation, Kerb 29 refuses the comfortable distance between human and non-human worlds. The issue interrogates the ideological constructs that underpin our relationship to landscape: the human/wild binary, the myth of empty wilderness, the politics of ‘abandonment’ and ‘othering’. Alongside this critical dismantling, it maps emergent practices in designing with wildness and digital tools. Produced through the department of landscape architecture at RMIT University School of Architecture and Urban Design, this cross-disciplinary design journal draws together voices from ecology, landscape design, and cultural criticism to re-examine where wild places actually exist—and what role we play within them.
Key Features
- 128 pages of cross-disciplinary essays, critical writing, and design-led inquiry into wildness and landscape
- Contributors include Dermot Foley, Charles Massy, Salad Dressing, Carol Moukheiber, and Martin Hogue
- Published by Uro Publications, 2021
What You'll Discover
- How the human/wild binary has shaped—and distorted—the way designers, planners, and ecologists approach landscape
- The ideological weight carried by concepts such as ‘wilderness’, ‘abandonment’, and ‘othering’, and why they matter to design practice
- Emergent approaches to designing with wildness, including the role of digital tools in rethinking human relationships to non-human environments
- A re-mapping of where wild places might exist today—and how humankind’s uncertain but profound impact on the planet demands a new spatial and ethical reckoning
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, Melbourne. Each issue is developed collaboratively, bringing together practitioners, academics, and critics around a focused thematic inquiry.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922601025
- Publisher: Uro Publications
- Publication Date: 2021
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban designers, ecologists, and design researchers with an interest in environmental ethics, posthuman thinking, and the politics of wild space.