1st Edition

Design Studio Vol. 4: Working at the Intersection Architecture After the Anthropocene

Edited By Harriet Harriss, Naomi House Copyright 2022
144 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

144 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice. This volume sets the table for inclusive architectural engagement during a time circumscribed by pandemic, climate change and inequality. An esteemed group of international voices amplify interactions involving sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and environmental catastrophe, exploring how they inextricably linked.... Read more

Editor’s Introduction: Beyond the Spaces of Speciesism

An Architectural History of Intersectionality

V. Mitch McEwen

Architecture is Dysphoric and Wants to Transition

McKenzie Wark

Non-Binary Ecologies

Harriet Harriss and Naomi House

Loser Images: A Feminist Proposal for Post-Anthropocene Visuality

Joanna Zylinska

Planetary Portals in the Upside-Down World

Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Kerry Holden and Kathryn Yusoff

From Anthropocene to Biocene: Novel Bio-integrated Designs as a Means to Respond to the Current Biodiversity and Climate Crisis

Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker

Sitopia: A Landscape for Human and Non-Human Flourishing

Carolyn Steel

The Anthropocene Museum: A Troublesome Trail of Improvision Towards the Chthulucene

Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi

Ca’n Terra: For Landscapes of the Post-Anthropocene

Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa

Pollinators Pavilion: The Architecture of Analogous Habitats

Ariane Lourie Harrison

The Wilding of Mars

Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg

Bat Cloud

Joyce Hwang

In Between Landscape – Nvidia Headquarters

Walter Hood

Final Word

Timothy Morton

Biography

Professor Harriet Harriss is a qualified architect and Dean of the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to this, she led the Architecture Research Programs at the Royal college of Art in London. Dean Harriss has won various awards including a Brookes Teaching Fellowship, a Higher Education Academy Internationalisation Award and a Churchill Fellowship.

Naomi House is a Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Design, and Research Coordinator at Middlesex University, she is an experienced academic who taught for many years in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, and previously at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London Metropolitan University and University of the Arts, London.