Geographies of Trash
Published on 15. January 2016
128 pages
978-1-945150-33-3 (ISBN)
Description
In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of new aesthetics and politics of urbanism. Honored with a 2014 ACSA Faculty Design Award, the book charts the geographies of trash in Michigan across scales to propose five speculative projects that bring to visibility disciplinary controversies on the relations of technology, space and politics.
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Rania Ghosn | El Hadi Jazairy
Geographies of Trash
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05/2016
Actar Publishers
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Persons
Rania Ghosn is an architect, geographer and partner of Design Earth. She is currently assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture + Planning. Her work critically frames the urban condition at the intersection of politics, aesthetics and technological systems - be they energy, trash, or farming. Rania holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a Master in Geography from University College London, and a Bachelor of Architecture from American University of Beirut. Prior to joining University of Michigan, she was an Assistant Professor at University of Michigan. Rania is founding editor of the journal New Geographies and editor-in-chief of NG2: Landscapes of Energy. Some of her recent writings have been published in San Rocco, Journal of Architectural Education, MONU, Thresholds, Bracket, and Perspecta.
Content
- Intro
- Construct
- Matter-in-place
- Trash at the Boundaries
- Represent
- Scales of Trash
- Airspace: Filling Land
- Grid: Siting Landfills
- Networks: Managing Waste Streams
- Project
- Cap
- Collect
- Contain
- Preserve
- Form
- Assemble
- Things
