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Speculative Landscapes Symposium
November 10, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 5:45 pm
Join us for the Speculative Landscapes: Conversations on Future Thinking Symposium hosted by the School of Landscape Architecture on Friday, November 10. The symposium will include three panels on projective scenarios — technological speculations, fire as technology — storytellings, and an array of speculation. Register in advance.
Meet the presenting panelists.
Symposium Abstract
In an era where past is no longer prologue, how do (landscape) designers think about the future and their role as well as the implementation and evolution of the landscapes they conjure and construct?
Speculative Landscapes draws together a range of designers, thinkers, and practitioners to speculate on new contexts, technologies, and techniques that will influence the future of landscape architecture and design. Design speculation departs from a solutionist mindset by projecting possible futures through projective techniques of scenario building, storytelling, and (de)futuring. Speculation is informed with the use of novel technologies, enabling designers to envision, test, and critique desirable and undesirable futures.