Kerb 30: Power maps the forces — social, ecological, political — that landscape architects must navigate, resist, or leverage when shaping the built environment, structured across the three-part framework of Surrender, Agency, and Resistance.
About This Book
Power is the subject few professions examine candidly about themselves. This thirtieth issue of Kerb, the journal of landscape architecture published by Uro Publications, turns that critical lens directly on the discipline. Who holds authority in the landscapes we inhabit? What social license does the profession rely upon, and at whose expense? The issue moves through three conceptual registers — Surrender, Agency, Resistance — to interrogate how landscape architects engage with existing ecologies of power, the business models that sustain practice, and the complicity that comes with proximity to authority. Essential reading for practitioners and students grappling with the ethics of design in contested environments.
Key Features
- 128 pages of essays, critical writing, and project-based discourse on power in landscape architecture
- Contributors include AHORA, Billy Fleming, Sophia Pearce & Jock Gilbert, Ben Hardy-Clements, Simon Kilbane, Kyle Bush, TERREMOTO, and Molly Coulter
- Published by Uro Publications, 2022
What You'll Discover
- How the conceptual triad of Surrender, Agency, and Resistance frames a landscape architect's relationship to institutional and social power
- The social license underpinning landscape practice — and the discourse that both sustains and destabilises it
- The business models that structure the profession, and how they shape which stories get told in the built environment
- Practitioners actively working to expose and resist the profession's entanglement with authority, from TERREMOTO to Billy Fleming
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922601261
- Publisher: Uro Publications
- Publication Date: 2022
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urban designers, and design students engaged with the politics of practice, environmental justice, and the ethics of professional authority in the built environment.