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Fluid Geographies: Strategies For the Landscape Left Behind
Australia’s vast Wheatbelt is full of surveyed and cleared town-sites of which few were settled and even fewer remain. One hardscrabble town offers a chance to imagine new design strategies for controlled decline.
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The Continental Compact: Eastward Migration in a (New) New World
A manifesto for a radical retreat from the American mythology of westward expansion, proposing instead an eastward migration where we stop moving water to people, but instead start moving people to water.
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Introduction: Migration
Migration is an instinct shared across many species, an essential ingredient for survival. The design of our cities and landscapes can facilitate or inhibit migrations. Is promoting connectivity always the answer? Which flows do we want to facilitate, and which to block?
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Landscape and Displacement: a Practical Intervention on a Syrian Informal Settlement in Lebanon
Emergency landscapes suffer from a fractured sense of belonging. Here, several strategies for designing flexible spaces for refugees.
Featured Issue
Migration is an instinct shared across many species, and a fundamental process for communities’ survival. Today, all kinds of populations are on the move in unprecedented and dramatic ways. Some migrations bring threats, perceived or real. The design of cities, landscapes and infrastructure can support or inhibit migrations. Scenario 6 explores selected facets of this complex topic, told from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
Featured Project
What if the projected inundation of the urban edge by rising sea levels catalyzed a rethinking of the productive interplay between land and water? LTL addressed this question as one of five firms selected by the Museum of Modern Art to participate in the workshop and exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront.
Categories: Infrastructure, Waterfront
In the News
We are pleased to announce the open Call for Submissions for the next issue of Scenario Journal. This upcoming issue will explore the relationship between climate action, energy infrastructure, and social justice.
Topics: All, Call for Submissions
