New Geographies 10. Fallow - Tapa blanda

Julia Smachylo; Michael Chieffalo

 
9781948765091: New Geographies 10. Fallow
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ISBN 10: 1948765098 ISBN 13: 9781948765091
Editorial: Actar, 2018

Sinopsis

New Geographies 10: Fallow, borrows from agriculture the term fallow as a metaphor to critically examine the role of strategic dormancy in cycles of valorization and devalorization of the built and unbuilt environment. While fallow in agriculture is understood as a process of restoring latent ecological value through idleness, when applied in urban discourse, this lack of productivity is often described negatively as abandoned or marginal, produced through industrial exploitation. Rather than a strict binary of fecund or barren, however, NG10 conceives of fallowness as a rich and complex terrain to provoke a critical examination of the sites, strategies, scales, and imaginaries of the unused, the devalued, and the dormant, and explore modes of revalorization in all its forms: economic, ecological, social, cultural. NG10 invites proposals from a multitude of approaches, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and diverse analytical toolkits, to explore the limits of fallow as a category of analysis, while also asking the question: what does design mean in such contexts? Ultimately, it is hoped that this compilation will provide a foundation on which designers—and other disciplines interested in spatial phenomena—can build new lines of questioning regarding processes of urbanization that will illuminate new speculative horizons for the design disciplines, while also demarcating points for cross-disciplinary study of the built and unbuilt environments.

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Acerca de los autores

Michael Chieffalo is a doctoral student, architect, and former planning commissioner. His current research engages with processes of agrarian urbanization; socio-environmental dimensions of factory farming; the diverse built environments of industrial agriculture; and the relation between geographies of industrial agriculture and processes of planetary urbanization. This bundled set of concerns is explored using historic and comparative analysis in service of critically analyzing how organizational rationales and spatial patterning of cities and zones of agricultural production evolve over time and in different political-economic contexts. He is finally interested in how human-animal relations have been understood, and species composition in cities been transformed, over time through the industrialization of livestock production.

Julia Smachylo is an urban designer as well as a registered urban planner in Canada and the United Kingdom. Her research responds to an increased awareness and shift towards valuing natural capital in research and policy, as well as the growing influence of non-state actors such as environmental organizations, landowners, and the private sector in shaping landscapes in response to climate change. Using film as a method of investigation, her recent work focus on woodland areas in the province of Ontario, Canada, documenting incentivized managed forests to reveal the extent to which these landscapes are tied to the social, economic and political histories of production and conservation within the region.

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Editorial
Actar
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1948765098
ISBN 13 
9781948765091
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
224
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