Description
Geostories is a manifesto for the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to the complexity of Earth systems in their vast scales of time and space. The series of architectural projects becomes a medium to synthesize different forms and scales of knowledge on technological externalities, such as oil extraction, deep-sea mining, ocean acidification, water shortage, air pollution, trash, space debris, and a host of other social-ecological issues.
The book is organized into three sections-terrarium, aquarium, planetarium, each of which revisits such devices of wonder that assemble publics around representations of the Earth. Through design research, Geostories brings together spatial history, geographic representation, projective design, and material public assemblies to speculate on ways of living with such legacy technologies on the planet.
Author: Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy
Publisher: Actar
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.70w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781945150791
ISBN10: 1945150793
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Sustainability & Green Design
- Architecture | Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation
- Architecture | Landscape