Ambiguous Territory

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Ambiguous Territory

Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural

Ellie Abrons, Paula Gaetano Adi, amid.cero9, Amy Balkin, Philip Beesley, Ursula Biemann, The Bittertang et al.

This book brings together the work of over forty architects, landscape architects, artists, and historians engaged in an exploration of art and design’s place in a time of environmental uncertainty and existential threat. Conceived in both environmental and disciplinary terms, the concept of “ambiguous territory” seeks to define conditions of uncertainty between nature and culture as well as architecture, art, and landscape. Ambiguous Territory advances the argument that it is through such forms of transdisciplinary practice that new opportunities emerge for creative thinking about our changing relationship to the Earth. Initially staged as an exhibition and related symposium at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan the work included in this volume can be seen to engage estrangement as a productive site of intellectual and creative potential. Resisting at once naive optimism and cynical pessimism about the place of art and design.

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