Abstract

Reflecting on the myriad practices involved in the production of landscapes and the ways these can result both in local metabolic rifts and aggregate in a planetary carbon rift, this essay offers a model for the interaction of spatial practices on the land, and asks how these confluences of practices might be tuned towards a flourishing planet. In the contemporary Western context, these practices can be broadly organized into manifestations of either modern or counter-modern sensibilities. Linked with these sensibilities, two categories of planet-minded practices are identified that are argued to reflect these two sensibilities, geoengineering and planetary gardening, respectively. The latter, it is argued, is a more imaginative, pluralistic and effective approach to governing climate action. The work of planetary gardening affords landscape architects new opportunities and challenges, but also new allies, human and nonhuman, and techniques for landscape care, old and new.

摘要

反思景观生产中涉及的无数实践，以及这些实践如何导致局部代谢裂痕和行星碳裂谷中的聚集，本文提供了陆地上空间实践相互作用的模型，并询问这些汇合如何实践可能会调整到一个繁荣的星球。在当代西方语境中，这些实践可以被广泛地组织成现代或反现代情感的表现形式。与这些敏感性相关联，确定了两类具有地球意识的实践，它们被认为分别反映了这两种敏感性，即地球工程和行星园艺。有人认为，后者是一种更具想象力、多元化和有效的气候行动治理方法。