The climate imaginary / edited by Leire Asensio Villoria & David Mah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Asensio Villoria, Leire, editor.

Mah, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and climate.

Sustainable architecture--Environmental aspects.

Sustainable architecture.

Climatic changes.

Sustainable design.

climate change.

sustainable architecture.

Physical Description:

199 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm

illustration

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Barcelona, Spain : Actar Publishers, [2025]

Summary:

The Climate Imaginary reflects on a global collection of design works that are engaged with the social, political and cultural transformations anticipated with climate change.With the climate emergency dominating our collective consciousness, the design field has mobilized to engage with the social, political and cultural transformations anticipated with the effects of this crisis. There has also been a corresponding widening to the spectrum of climate-informed design explorations, going beyond the technical imperatives of sustainability

Contents:

Introduction : the climate imaginary / Leire Asensio Villoria & David Mah

Elephant in the room / Design Earth

Planet city / Liam Young

Hacking domestic machines / Lydia Kallipoliti (with Youngbin Shin)

Spheres & post-extraction assemblages / Asensio-Mah

Walumba Elders Centre / Iredale Pederson Hook architects

Ivam's augmented forest / Exosistema Urbano

New Agronon / OP/AL Jonathan A. Scelsa and Jennifer Birkeland

Climate change, all change / in conversation with Xavier De Kestelier and DaeWha Kang, interviewed by Yutong [Kelly] Jin

SITE=SYSTEM

Saline City / Ziyi Yang

Technoecosystematic assemblages / Laura Carrillo Acosta [and three others]

Regenerative hydroscope / Yutong [Kelly] Jin [and three others]

The beach / Yixuan Cao [and three others]

Resilient transection / Fadi Masoud

The swards of wrath : an agrarian triptych / Asensio-Mah

South lawn carpark masterplan / Wowowa

Yuecheng Courtyard Kindergarten / MAD Architects

CA'N TERRA / Ensamble Studio

Bushes / C+ arquitectas

Eternal ephemera / Alberto de Salvatierra

Urbanism of information : economic and political bypass through blockchain coordinated big data-AI space-environments / Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

Deep green / Ecologistudio

Adapted Manhattan / Asensio-Mah

Programming the perpetual unknows appareil / Edouard Cabay

Barcelona sol / Asensio-Mah

Agricultural modernization and collective memory / Charles Waldheim, the Harvard Office for Urbanization

Flux codes / Fadi Masoud

Melbourne ability / Asensio-Mah

Innovative design & fabrication methods for sustainable architecture in the new era of climatic change / Ding Wen 'Nic' Bao

Additive reduction / Laura Harper + Roland Snooks

Criket shelter / Terreform ONE

Intermodal station, urban design and Felipe VI Park / Abalos + Sentkiewicz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Under Modernity, the influence of the climate and environment on creative practice and cultural expression receded due to an assumption that technology had tamed the environment's perils....Modernity also brought about a general shift of cultural interest away from being in the world....This book is a survey of practices and projects that have moved away from these tropes of modern creative practice towards an inventiveness driven by an environmental reawakening of the imagination. Most importantly, this survey helps us recognize the vital themes and concerns emerging from this creative engagement. This book examines a broader shift towards climate as a primary motivator of design practice. A close study of exemplary projects informs the articulation of broader themes associated with contemporary climate imaginary practices."--Page 4.

ISBN:

9781638400059

1638400059

OCLC:

1599580976

Publisher Number:

CIPO000400027