LSS1_Tiago Torres Campos

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Contemporary territories in the twenty-first century face increasingly adverse

Anthropogenic climate change. Landscape and architectural design practices

need to consider once again fluidity and instability as intrinsic conditions of these

territories, both locally and globally. They are always already an entanglement with

exponentially unstable planetary conditions in the Anthropocene.

Geologics advocate for landscape and architecture to become productive

mediations between city and geology. They propose a reconfiguration of urban

territories as resilient hybrid possibilities that forge existence among dissonance,

heterogeneity, and conflict. Geologics encourage architectural expansion towards

more fluid practices for thinking with and feeling through the contemporary city

as a forcefully unstable geologic becoming. They operate as a threshold between

resilience to exponentially accelerated change and large-scale geoengineering.

And they propose alternatives for ‘staying with the trouble.’

The lecture will discuss the island-city of Manhattan as an experimental and

conceptual laboratory of ideas. It will showcase interrelated experiments, the

stories that motivated them, and what they may instigate. The experiments are

an invitation to position architectural practice as a way of noticing and bearing

witness of territorial and landscape conditions through light and dust, rock and

water, stillness and vibration. They aim to disrupt conventional readings of the

city and forge a journey through which a new city emerges. With an intricate

connection between image, text, and installation, they are an open invitation to

radically interconnected imagination.