Earthshine – An Essay on Watershed Imagining by Stefan Darlan Boris argues that the climate crisis is inseparable from a failure of imagination, taking the Aire River transformation outside Geneva as the ground for a new way of seeing watersheds.
About This Book
Part landscape essay, part atmospheric journey, Earthshine moves through garden cinema, green caves, and luminous riverscapes along the Aire River outside Geneva to ask a question that sits at the heart of contemporary landscape practice: how do we reimagine rivers not as infrastructure but as life terrains? Stefan Darlan Boris retraces the iconic 21st-century river restoration project by Georges Descombes and Superpositions, using it as a lens through which to examine watersheds as common ground in a new climatic regime. The essay is enriched by a series of previously unpublished river drawings by Descombes — rare primary material for anyone working at the intersection of landscape architecture, ecological thinking, and climate imagination.
Key Features
- 223 pages of essayistic writing and previously unpublished landscape drawings
- River drawings by landscape architect Georges Descombes, published here for the first time
- Case study: the Aire River transformation project by Georges Descombes and Superpositions, Geneva, Switzerland
- Published by The Danish Architectural Press
What You'll Discover
- How the climate crisis manifests as a crisis of imagination — and what landscape architecture can do about it
- A close reading of Georges Descombes and Superpositions' Aire River project as a model for rethinking rivers as living terrain
- The concept of the watershed as shared common ground within a shifting climatic regime
- Previously unpublished drawings by Georges Descombes that illuminate the spatial and ecological thinking behind the project
About the Author
Stefan Darlan Boris is a landscape architect whose work engages with ecological imagination and the cultural dimensions of landscape transformation. In Earthshine, he combines essayistic writing with landscape research to explore the Aire River project as a provocation for reimagining how we inhabit and narrate watersheds.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 223
- Dimensions: 132 × 180 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788774075875
- Publisher: The Danish Architectural Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects, environmental designers, and readers interested in ecological urbanism, climate imagination, and river restoration as cultural practice.