Kerb 32: Unsaid turns its attention to the unacknowledged currents running through designed landscapes — the knowledge, relationships, and ecologies that persist below the threshold of professional discourse, quietly shaping the ground beneath our feet.
About This Book
This issue of Kerb, RMIT's long-running landscape architecture journal, takes as its subject the things left unspoken in landscape practice: the suppressed ecologies, the silenced histories, the design languages we have forgotten how to use. Contributors from across practice and scholarship ask what it means to design with empathy and reciprocity, and what responsibilities come with shaping environments that hold far more than we typically acknowledge. Timothy Morton interrogates the suburban lawn as a site of latent violence; Georgina Reid of Wonderground considers storytelling as a tool for transforming our relationship to land; Bruce Pascoe reflects on the knowledge embedded in waterways. Together, these perspectives constitute a serious challenge to landscape architecture's professional assumptions.
Key Features
- 128 pages of essays, reflections, and practice-based contributions on landscape architecture and ecological empathy
- Contributors include Timothy Morton, Georgina Reid (Wonderground), Inside Outside Office, and Bruce Pascoe
- Published by Uro Publications, 2024
What You'll Discover
- Timothy Morton's reading of the suburban lawn as a site of hidden ecological and cultural violence
- How Wonderground's Georgina Reid uses storytelling as a methodology for reshaping human relationships to land
- Inside Outside Office's argument for healthy soils made through the medium of drawing
- Bruce Pascoe on the intelligence held within waterways and the practice of listening as a design act
About the Author
[Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922601339
- Publisher: Uro Publications
- Publication Date: 2024
Perfect For: Landscape architects, environmental designers, and practitioners interested in Indigenous knowledge, ecological ethics, and the cultural dimensions of designed landscapes.