Main entry:

Ghosn, Rania, author.

Title & Author:

Climate inheritance / Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, 2023.
©2023

Description:

151 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
World and heritage in the climate crisis / Rania Ghosn -- Galápagos Islands -- Sagarmatha National Park -- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani -- Statue of Liberty -- Venice and its lagoon -- Rapa Nui National Park -- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras -- Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and Forest of the Cedars of God -- East Rennell -- Ilulissat Icefjord -- The new inheritance paradigm: heritage in, of, and after the Anthropocene / Colin Sterling, Rodney Harrison -- The radical life of a landscape / David Gissen -- Disaster as experiment: Superstudio’s radical preservation / Lucia Allais.

Summary:

Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites--from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands--have garnered empathetic media attention in a landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis. In a strategic subversion of the media aura of heritage, DESIGN EARTH casts ten World Heritage sites as narrative figures to visualize pervasive climate risks--rising sea levels, extinction, droughts, air pollution, melting glaciers, material vulnerability, unchecked tourism, and the massive displacement of communities and cultural artifacts--all while situating the present emergency within the wreckages of other ends of world, replete with the salvages of extractivism, racism, and settler colonialism. The possibilities of such climate inheritances are narrated in drawing triptychs and mythologies that bequeath other worlds and values.

ISBN:

1638400997 hardback
9781638400998 hardback

Subject:

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture and climate.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Housing Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes.
Sustainable urban development.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture et climat.
Climat Changements.
Urbanisme durable.
climate change.

Added entries:

Jazairy, El Hadi, 1970- author.
Design Earth (Firm)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Art, Science & Technology, sponsoring body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318517
Call No.: 318517
Copy: 1
Status: Available