Let's Talk Wild! assembles 12 interdisciplinary voices to interrogate what wildness actually means in the built environment — and whether urban rewilding signals genuine transformation or the aestheticisation of sustainability.
About This Book
Wildness and urban design are rarely comfortable bedfellows, yet cities are increasingly framing wildness as a resource: in community gardens, rewilding projects, and new landscape strategies that blur the boundary between the designed and the unruly. Let's Talk Wild! refuses easy answers. Rather than charting a manifesto, it stages a multi-layered dialogue across disciplines — asking architects, planners, and thinkers to sit with the contradictions. What does it mean to "design" chaos? Is the commercialisation of wild aesthetics undermining ecological intent? For practitioners working at the intersection of urban design, landscape architecture, and environmental thinking, this compact volume sharpens the questions worth asking.
Key Features
- 120 pages of interdisciplinary essays and dialogue exploring urban wildness, rewilding, and ecological design
- Edited by Dorothee Rummel and Hanna Hemberger
- 12 interdisciplinary contributors in conversation across themes of chaos, creativity, and wildness
- Published by M Books, ISBN 9783944425511
What You'll Discover
- How architects and urban planners might engage critically — rather than superficially — with wildness as a design concept
- The tension between genuine ecological transformation and the commercialisation of sustainability in urban contexts
- Cross-disciplinary perspectives on chaos and creativity, drawn from fields beyond architecture and planning
- How wild practices from urban gardening to large-scale rewilding are reshaping the language of urban living environments
About the Author
The volume is edited by Dorothee Rummel and Hanna Hemberger. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 120
- Dimensions: 110 × 180 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783944425511
- Publisher: M Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and environmental humanities scholars grappling with rewilding, ecological urbanism, and the politics of sustainability.