ISSUE 04: HARD COPY / SOFT PALETTE
.this issue.
“real life” | real life | irl | soft copies | hard copies | speculative futures & & &
crazy paving
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PRACTICING FUTURES TOGETHER
As part of the AILA Cultivate committee we are facilitating an upcoming MPavilion event. The event brings together landscape architects, artists, writers, poets and researchers, with each bringing a short piece of speculative writing in an attempt to radicalise and reclaim our relationship to the future.
The event is free ~ register your interest here.
WHERE DOES THE SUN HIT?
~~ photo essay of two local projects ~~
Front garden ~ Gemma Leslie + Mike Chambers
Workshop garden ~ Fletcher Barns
SOFT COPIES OF HARD COPIES
Jessica Stockholder, Landscape Linoleum
I imagine the round earth, dark brown dirt and solid through. I am walking on the surface, the skin, shown to me.
Fischlii & Weiss, Flowers & Mushrooms
…over-laid petals, berries, weeds and mushrooms have an unreal quality – colours are intensified, forms are magnified, landscapes are merged with close-up details of plants.
Watanabe Koichi, Moving Plants
When I visited sites covered in hybridized itadori, suddenly I caught the odd feeling that I had come to the future world from which human beings had departed. Vegetation would be renewed year after year if people were gone and constructions were demolished. Hybridized itadori would be the main creature in the area. At that time, how would the ecological balance in this area be?
Out There acknowledges that we live and work on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, as well as to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Out There is a project by landscape architects and artists Olivia O’Donnell and Virginia Overell.