Queer

Queer names identities, practices, and perspectives that resist heteronormativity and patriarchal structures. In design fields, it also gestures toward openness, refusal of fixed categories, and imagining other futures. The word carries both political urgency and fragility: it belongs first to queer lives and struggles, not as a metaphor to be freely borrowed. Yet it can also describe projects that resist classification, that trouble norms of use, form, or identity in space. To queer is to destabilize what is assumed natural or proper. Queer points both to the work of queer designers and to spaces that resist being boxed—projects that disrupt patriarchal orders and open space for other ways of being together. It asks literally and metaphorically: what might landscapes become when decolonized from centuries of cis-hetero structures?

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It is with sadness that we learned about the passing of renowned Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier. In 1995, he established Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes in Montreal and, in nearly three decades, received a plethora of awards for his work, both in Canada and internationally. At Landezine, we featured a selection of projects by his […]

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