New Geographies 10 - Fallow

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, New Geographies #10 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.

Ultimately, it is hoped that this compilation will provide a foundation on which designers can build new lines of questioning regarding processes of urbanization that will illuminate new speculative horizons for the design disciplines, while also demarcating points for cross-disciplinary study of the built and unbuilt environments.

Co-published with Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Chieffalo (Editor), Julia Smachylo (Editor)
• Publisher: Actar D
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781948765091
• ISBN: 978-1-948765-09-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: New Geographies; New Geographies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture