Nikole Bouchard´s interdisciplinary research and design work straddles the space between art, architecture and landscape to discover ideas that stimulate ecologically sensitive and culturally relevant design interventions.
She is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a critic in the School of Architecture at Yale University.
For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal—from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment. Habits of disposal are deeply ingrained in our daily lives, so casual and continual that we rarely ever stop to ponder the big-picture effects on social, spatial and ecological orders. Rethinking the ways in which we produce, collect, discard and reuse our waste, whether it´s materials, spaces or places, is essential to ensure a more feasible future. Waste Matters: Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes presents a series of historical and contemporary design ideas that reimagine a range of repurposed materials at diverse scales and in various contexts by exploring methods of hacking, disassembly, reassembly, recycling, adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment. Waste Matters will inspire designers to sample and rearrange bits of artifacts from the past and present to produce culturally relevant and ecologically sensitive materials, objects, architecture and environments.
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- Presents a collection of visually appealing design essays, interventions and interviews to offer alternative designs for the production, collection, discarding and reuse of waste, including materials, spaces and places
- Includes contributions from a diverse group of established innovators and professionals from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, including artists, architects, landscape architects and urban designers
- Weaves together theory and practice through highly-illustrated case studies from the USA, UK, China, Spain, Australia, India, Brazil, Germany, Russia and Denmark, amongst others.
Acknowledgements
Syncretistic Speculations on WasteNikole Bouchard
Introduction
Taking on the Tabulaillegalscripta
Nikole Bouchard
IntroductionPiece I:
The Creative Process and Productive Destruction
Nikole Bouchard
Assembling the Real Imaginary City
Dennis Maher
This Time: The Vanishing Work of Alibi StudioCatie Newell
Reuse and Reclamation in Artistic Practice and Production
Olalekan Jeyifous
Introduction
Piece II:
Anticipated Ruins and Latent PotentialsNikole Bouchard
Green Infrastructure and Stranded Landscapes
Fionn Byrne
Landscape as Effect: Waste in Time
Sean Burkholder
Pre-Occupations: Building Foundations as Interchronic LandscapesSergio Lopez-Pineiro
Introduction
Piece III:
Working with what Remains
Nikole Bouchard
Wandering Into and Wondering About (American) Spolia Contemporanei Aleksandr Mergold
Generative Zoning: Mining the City Toward Novel EcologiesJoyce Hwang
Collective Imagination: In Conversation with Maria Lisogorskaya of Assemble
Nikole Bouchard
Atlas of Afterlives: The Everlasting (Im)permanence of ThingsNikole Bouchard and Amanda Golemba
A Passion for Slow Fashion: In Conversation with ace & jig
Nikole Bouchard
Waste Matters presents a series of historical and contemporary design ideas that reimagine a range of repurposed materials at diverse scales and in various contexts by exploring methods of hacking, disassembly, reassembly, recycling, adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment.
Waste Matters presents a series of historical and contemporary design ideas that reimagine a range of repurposed materials at diverse scales and in various contexts by exploring methods of hacking, disassembly, reassembly, recycling, adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment.
