New Geographies #10: Fallow

126 · New Geographies #10: Fallow

Michael Chieffalo, Julia Smachylo

The term fallow is borrowed from agriculture as a metaphor to critically examine the role of strategic dormancy in cycles of valorization and devalorization of the built and unbuilt environment. Rather than a strict binary of fecund or barren, however, NG10 conceives of fallowness as a rich and complex terrain to provoke a critical examination of the sites, strategies, scales, and imaginaries of the unused, the devalued, and the dormant, and explore modes of revalorization in all its forms: economic, ecological, social, cultural. NG10 invites proposals from a multitude of approaches, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and diverse analytical toolkits, to explore the limits of fallow as a category of analysis, while also asking the question: what does design mean in such contexts? Ultimately, it is hoped that this compilation will provide a foundation on which designers—and other disciplines interested in spatial phenomena—can build new lines of questioning regarding processes of urbanization, while also demarcating points for cross-disciplinary study of the built and unbuilt environments.

Co-published with Eds. Size Format ISBN Printed · EN Price Harvard GSD Michael Chieffffalo, Julia Smachylo 8 x 10 in. / 20,3 x 25,4 cm Softcover · 224 pages 978-194876-509-1 $29.95 / €25 / £24

Related Titles New Geographies #11: Extraterrestrial ISBN 978-1-94876-550-3 New Geographies #9: Posthuman ISBN 978-1-94515-072-2