Ambiguous territory : architecture, landscape and the postnatural / Cathryn Dwyre and five others

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The Territory of Ambiguity -- Weird Worlds and Peculiar Practices: Imagining a Tentative Future -- How to Become a Landscape Writing Machine -- Architecture Without People -- Bubbles and the Problem of Voluntary Containment -- Tentacle Shapes -- Holes -- Unclouded -- Amy Balkin -- NaJa and deOstos -- Sean Lally -- Ursula Biemann -- Kallipoliti and Theodoridis -- smudge studio -- John Cook -- Lateral Office / LCLA Office -- amid.cero9 -- Mark Nystrom -- Scavengers and Other Creatures -- Practices of Receptivity -- Toxic Grotesque Landscapes -- Biologic Mediations -- Philip Beesley / PBAI / LASG -- Harrison Atelier -- Lindsey french -- Mark Dion -- The Bittertang Farm -- OFFPOLINN -- pneumastudio -- Michael Geffel -- Neil Spiller -- Cornelia Hesse-Honegger -- Perry Kulper -- OMG -- Marina Zurkow -- Terreform ONE -- FUTUREFORMS -- Ellie Abrons -- Cyborg Ecologies: Choreographing Landscape Resistance -- Of Oil and Ice -- Earthlight (Clair de Terre): fin-de-siècle cosmographies -- Ambiguous Territory, Complexity and Collaboration -- Unknown Fields -- NEMESTUDIO -- Bradley Cantrell -- Brian Davis -- The Open Workshop -- Edward Burtynsky -- Smout Allen -- DESIGN EARTH -- Gaetano Adi and Crembil -- formlessfinder -- LiquidFactory -- Adam Fure -- Lisa Hirmer -- oOR -- RVTR -- Miller and Moran -- Landing Studio -- Rachele Riley -- Archiagape.

The writers and designers in this collection are among the most thoughtful architects, artists, landscape architects, and theorists working today. The editors organized these essays and works of art and design around three territories: the atmospheric, the biologic, and the geologic. Each cluster of essays is further framed by forewords and afterwords, which draw individual points of view into a larger articulation of what an ambiguous territory might be and how it operates. Ambiguous Territory emerged from a symposium and exhibition held at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2017, and exhibitions at the University of Virginia and Pratt Manhattan Gallery in 2018, and at Ithaca College in 2019. The conversations that arise in this book are inquisitive and critically engaged. They pressure assumptions we routinely make about what constitutes meaningful and principled perspectives in architecture, landscape architecture, and art.