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(Co)Designing Hope: Aqueous Landscapes in Transition book cover

1st Edition

(Co)Designing Hope Aqueous Landscapes in Transition

Edited By Laura Cipriani Copyright 2025
336 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis. Perhaps even more serious is a crisis of imagination connected with thought and with creative, far-sighted action able to combine the visionary... Read more

Introduction

1. Liquid, Solid, and Gas: Axioms for Aqueous Landscapes in Transition

Laura Cipriani

Part I: Liquid | Water

2. Sponsland: A Collective Design Manifesto

Peter Veenstra

3. Let the River Run: The Aire Waterway as a (Co)Designer

Georges Decombes

4. Designing Alternatives to Megaprojects: Traditional Knowledge as Hope Against Seawalls in Japan

Annaclaudia Martini

5. Imaginaries of Resilience: Rhetorics and Realities of Climate Change Adaptation in Four Southeast Asian Megacities

Lizzie Yarina

6. Water Communities in the 21st Century: The Case of Het Lankheet Estate

Inge Bokkink and Amina Chouairi

7. Resilient Design for an Altered Planet: Living Breakwaters for a More-Than-Human (Co)Design

Pippa Brashear

8. Underwater Living Landscapes: A Landscape Plan for Calanques National Park

Miguel Georgieff

Part II: Solid | Ice

9. (Co)Designing With Time: A Tempo-Material Approach Along Arctic Island Coasts

Eimear Tynan

10. Building Up Water: Artificial Glaciers in Ladakh

Carey Clouse

11. The Sounds of Melting Landscapes: Facing the Climate Crisis with Sonic Intimacy in the Alps

Ludwig Berger

Part III: Gas | Fog and Clouds

12. The Cloud Gardeners: Water for a Thirsty Planet

Laura Cipriani and Gilles Clement

13. Cultivating Water: From the Dew to the Sky Vault

Catherine Mosbach

14. Cloudscapes: Transcending Climatic Boundaries

Nadir Abdessemed and Christine von Raven

Conclusions

15. Choreography in Landscape Practice: Agency, Intention, and the Beauty of a World in Motion

Emily Knox and Rob Holmes

Biography

Laura Cipriani is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Delft University of Technology. Her current research addresses climate change issues, starting from the materiality of water and soil, and adopting (co)design approaches. Over the last decade, she has taught at Venice University IUAV, Politecnico di Milano, National University Singapore, Venice International University, and the University of Padua. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Architecture (Hons) from IUAV, a Master’s in Design Studies (Hons) from Harvard Design School (2004), and a Ph.D. in Landscape Urbanism from IUAV. In 2008, Laura founded Superlandscape, a landscape and urban design firm.

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