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Waste Matters: Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes

Author/EditorBouchard, Nikole (University of Wisconsi (Author)
ISBN: 9781138592360
Pub Date02/12/2020
BindingPaperback
Pages256
Dimensions (mm)246(h) * 189(w)
Waste Matters presents a series of historical and contemporary design ideas that reimagine a range of repurposed materials at diverse scales and in various contexts by exploring methods of hacking, disassembly, reassembly, recycling, adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment.
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For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal-from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment. Habits of disposal are deeply ingrained in our daily lives, so casual and continual that we rarely ever stop to ponder the big-picture effects on social, spatial and ecological orders. Rethinking the ways in which we produce, collect, discard and reuse our waste, whether it's materials, spaces or places, is essential to ensure a more feasible future. Waste Matters: Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes presents a series of historical and contemporary design ideas that reimagine a range of repurposed materials at diverse scales and in various contexts by exploring methods of hacking, disassembly, reassembly, recycling, adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment. Waste Matters will inspire designers to sample and rearrange bits of artifacts from the past and present to produce culturally relevant and ecologically sensitive materials, objects, architecture and environments.

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal-from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment. Habits of disposal are deeply ingrained in our daily lives, so casual and continual that we rarely ever stop to ponder the big-picture effects on social, spatial and ecological orders. Rethinking the ways in which we produce, collect, discard and reuse our waste, whether it's materials, spaces or places, is essential to ensure a more feasible future. Waste Matters: Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes presents a series of historical and contemporary design ideas that reimagine a range of repurposed materials at diverse scales and in various contexts by exploring methods of hacking, disassembly, reassembly, recycling, adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment. Waste Matters will inspire designers to sample and rearrange bits of artifacts from the past and present to produce culturally relevant and ecologically sensitive materials, objects, architecture and environments.

Nikole Bouchard's interdisciplinary research and design work straddles the space between art, architecture and landscape to discover ideas that stimulate ecologically sensitive and culturally relevant design interventions. She is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a critic in the School of Architecture at Yale University.

Acknowledgements Syncretistic Speculations on WasteNikole Bouchard Introduction Taking on the Tabula Scripta Nikole Bouchard IntroductionPiece I: The Creative Process and Productive Destruction Nikole Bouchard Assembling the Real Imaginary City Dennis Maher This Time: The Vanishing Work of Alibi StudioCatie Newell Reuse and Reclamation in Artistic Practice and Production Olalekan Jeyifous Introduction Piece II: Anticipated Ruins and Latent PotentialsNikole Bouchard Green Infrastructure and Stranded Landscapes Fionn Byrne Landscape as Effect: Waste in Time Sean Burkholder Pre-Occupations: Building Foundations as Interchronic LandscapesSergio Lopez-Pineiro Introduction Piece III: Working with what Remains Nikole Bouchard Wandering Into and Wondering About (American) Spolia Contemporanei Aleksandr Mergold Generative Zoning: Mining the City Toward Novel EcologiesJoyce Hwang Collective Imagination: In Conversation with Maria Lisogorskaya of Assemble Nikole Bouchard Atlas of Afterlives: The Everlasting (Im)permanence of ThingsNikole Bouchard and Amanda Golemba A Passion for Slow Fashion: In Conversation with ace & jig Nikole Bouchard

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