Donna Jeanne Haraway (born 1944, United States) is an American scholar whose work has unsettled the boundaries between science, technology, feminism, and ecology. Professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she was the first to hold tenure in feminist theory in the United States, shaping the field through her teaching and writing since the 1980s. Her texts, from Primate Visions to Modest_Witness and beyond, interrogate anthropocentrism, decenter the human, and foreground the generative agency of nonhuman processes—whether animals, machines, or ecologies. Haraway’s idiom is one of irony and world-making: cyborgs, companion species, and situated knowledges become figures through which new ethics of responsibility and kinship are imagined. Awarded numerous international prizes, she continues to stand as one of the most influential voices in ecofeminism and technoscience. Her thought insists that life on a damaged planet demands new stories, hybrid genealogies, and alliances across species and systems.
Landscape architecture should engage intensively with conviviality—it has the capacity to unify many issues in current theoretical debates and connect the discipline to the global network of the conviviality movement.
In the U.S., lawns cover nearly 2 percent of the land surface and, as researcher Cristina Milesi revealed using satellite data, “could be considered the single largest irrigated crop in America”—their total area is three times larger than that of irrigated cornfields. The infatuation with lawns runs so deep that, in some cases, failing to […]
The inaugural lecture, given by Joost Emmerik when he assumed his position as Head of Landscape at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2022. The text particularly excels in embedding doubt into the teaching process. It is the doubt about nature, our entanglement with it, and the values and politics that drive the design process. It is about passing knowledge to others and questioning it meanwhile – a much more pertinent and productive teaching paradigm for times of uncertainties and change.
When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]
Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory and Inter-Programme Collaboration Director at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is Chair of the Landscape Research Group (LRG), a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield, and an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is also […]
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