Fail Better

“Fail better” comes from Samuel Beckett’s line: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. It names the paradox that failure is not only inevitable but necessary for learning, invention, and design. In landscape architecture, projects are never final solutions but low-resolution attempts in complex, shifting conditions. Failure is built in—materials weather, ecologies change, publics resist. To acknowledge failure is not defeat but honesty: the profession matures when it reflects on its missteps.

At Landezine we applaud the excellence in failure and invite it to be shared rather than hide it. Write to fail@landezine.com and tell us about your landscape failures, so others can learn from it.

Fail again, fail better!

/ Urška Škerl

Landezine met with Taktyk at the XII Barcelona International Landscape Biennial in November 2023, at the same place where we made the first interview, seven years ago. Taktyk’s work is a collage of collaborations showing sensitivity to the site, tackling its most vulnerable spots. Sébastien Penfornis and Thierry Kandjee seek through prospective visions, on-site works […]

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