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Towards the Neo Infrastructural
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What will we do? A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL NEW ORDER
LA DESIGN RESEARCH SEMINAR // ARCH1359 // 1360 // 1362 // 1366In this epoch of rapid change, unknown futures, and the Anthropogenic, the way in which we design for landscape, and those who use it, must be re-adapted and re-defined. Will you accept current normatives of practice, or be part of something new?The neo- infrastructural.A New Order...
Seminar lead DAVID [email protected] MONDAY EVENINGSRoom 008.12.043 [tbc]
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In the hype of post modernity, landscape architectural discourses have heroed the sanitisation of park, the idealisation of place, and the romanticisation of previously industrial spaces. How do we question and critique these destination environments? How can we create and apply alternative agendas? How do we move beyond the representational imperative to something multifaceted, resilient, and ‘neo infrastructural?’
This research seminar aims to challenge current paradigms of practice. It will engage students to look beyond existing discourses and develop their own agenda around the future of landscape through sites of changing infrastructure. Through key readings, case studies, guest speakers and other means, this engagng in class seminar will give students a base theoretical understanding of practice, and the opportunity to dissmantle and explore new ways to approach and define it. Students will produce two (2) site specific, story based assignments (a trip deck & Visitors Guide to the Neo Infrastructural) along with a weeky task towards investigating a landscape architectural new order.
