In response to increasing levels of pollution, waste, injustice, and environmental degradation, Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet (Routledge 2022) develops a philosophy of design and value that, refusing to consign powers to the extraction or availability of raw materials—or to consider materials as separable from the landscapes, knowledges and practices from which they emerge—promotes reuse, repurposing, and radical forms of co-authorship and care as design paradigms for the 21st century.
ISBN: 9780367858766; 400 pages, 162 B&W Illustrations. Featuring projects by Raumlabor, Richard Greaves, Everitt Clark, Helen Kirkum, Greg Lynn FORM, Catie Newell (Alibi Studio), Superuse Studios, Todd McLellan, AA Hooke Park, Lacaton & Vassal, Heatherwick Studio, Rural Studio, Flores & Prats, Rotor, James Henkel, Pianodrome, Lucas Muñoz, Radical Coauthorship Unit (ESALA), Ernesto Oroza, John Habraken, Thomas Zummer, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, Kisho Kurokawa, Refunc, BakerBrown Studio, Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Teresa Moller Landscape Studio, Anupama Kundoo Architects, Alvaro Catalán de Ocón, Alessandro Poli, Bellastock, Ants of the Prairie, Dan Parker and Stanislav Roudavski, Rachel Armstrong, Arakawa & Gins, Mark Foster Gage Architects, Ang Li, Alisa Andrasek and Jose Sanchez (Plethora Project), Gilles Retsin, and Thomas Thwaites.
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Superuse Studios, Wikado Playground, Rotterdam, 2007. Cover photograph by (©) Denis Guzzo.