Edition 30—2022

Power: Resistance and Surrender. Agency in a Landscape of Uncertainty

Edited and Produced by

—Jinhan Wang, —Kim Bounds, —Sam Cannon, —Weilu Chenn, —Coco Xinyu Zhao

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We are immersed in power, seen and unseen, explicit and implicit, felt and feared. It is tightly held, seldom deserved and often misplaced. Landscape architects play a vital role in expressing human and non-human centred stories in our environment. In doing so, they address, navigate, and ultimately influence the power dynamics intrinsic to our living world—for better or worse.

Kerb 30 is an exploration of the powers that make and unmake us. How does power manifest in the built environment? How do we address existing ecologies of power? Where are the opportunities to shift the centres of power inherent in our landscapes?

Following a conceptual framework of Surrender, Agency and Resistance, the authors of Kerb 30 examine the discourse that provides landscape architects with a social license to practice, the business models that underpin that practice, and those practitioners working to resist and reveal the profession’s complicity with authority.

Edition 30—2022

Power: Resistance and Surrender. Agency in a Landscape of Uncertainty

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Contents

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Editorial for Kerb 30—

—Jinhan Wang, —Kim Bounds, —Sam Cannon, —Weilu Chenn, —Coco Xinyu Zhao

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Re-assessing The Assessment—

Impacts of Green Colonialism in Sápmi

—Caitlin Jakusz Paridy, —Aniella Sophie Goldinger

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Burial Of A River—

Mapping Hydrological Integrity Surrendered to Anthropogenic Forces

—Ben Gitai

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Toxic Custodians—

New Post-extractivism Economies

—AHORA

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Running Interference In Landscapes Of Extraction—

—Kyle Bush

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Deterritorialisation, Hybridity And Conflict—

The Dialectics of the Gardens To Go

—Efrat Hildesheim

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Crowdsourced Power—

Collective Action, Politics and Design in the Age of the Smart City

— rich Wolff

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From Landscape To Commons—

A Case for Re-imagining the Medium of Landscape Architecture

—Jen Lynch

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Just—

—Molly Rose Coulter

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Mind The Gap—

Why We Need to Address Inequality in our Workplaces

—Ricky Ricardo

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Design With Real People—

People Should Be Free to See Unseen in Public Space

—Albert Rex

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The Power Of The Face—

An Ecology of the Selfie.

—Bonnie Lester

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Power Nʼ Care. Guns Nʼ Roses—

Negotiating Power and Care that Privileges Nature in an Era of Climate Change

—Ata Tara, —Yazid Ninsalam

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Material Migrations—

Accessible, Experimental and Regenerative Tectonics in the Landscape

—Matt Caldar

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Uncovering The Agency And Dynamics Of Power—

Micro-ecologies

—Hugo Faulkner, —Patrick Smith

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Puurinya Is A Barnkandji Word—

It means the spirit lingers, alive, living; the spirit continues on. Literally – the spirit continuing, and the exaltation when I look out over my country

—Jock Gilbert, —Barry Pearce, —Sophia Pearce

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Site As Power—

Retelling Site Histories for Lively Futures

—Sara Jacobs

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Mudscape Microcosm—

The Past, Present and Future Mud Islands of Port Phillip Bay

—Ben Hardy-Clements, —Josh Gowers, —Simon Kilbane

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Field Notes Toward An Internationalist Green New Deal—

—A L McCullough, —Yixin (April) Wei, —Palak Agarwal, —Selina Cheah, —Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, —Ian Dillon, —Billy Fleming

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Re-enacting The Past In The Service Of A New Present—

On the Russian Night Wolves’ Motorcade Rides as Sovereignty Markers in Contested Domains

—Lukas Pauer