Fernando Espeso
Stefano Dealessandri
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “rambunctious” as “uncontrollably exuberant” or “boisterous, wild, [and] unruly,” but notes that the term typically describes a person. Yet rambunctious is how environmental writer Emma Marris describes the likely future of our planet. On a globe irrevocably altered by human action and inaction, we must relinquish the myth of wilderness preservation and turn our attention to cultivating, at best, Earth as a “rambunctious garden.” Such a metaphor directs us toward a “pos
Following centuries of colonization, globalization, and never-ending economic extraction we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. In the storytelling performance Planet City and the Return of Global Wilderness we go on a science fiction safari through an imaginary city for the entire population of the earth, where 10 billion people surrender the rest of the world to a globally scaled wilderness and the return of stolen lands. Set against the consistent failure of nation-sta
In her role as Assistant Director of Research at Forensic Architecture, Samaneh Moafi guides projects and oversees the Centre for Contemporary Nature, focusing on innovative evidential methods for environmental violence. She holds a PhD from The Architectural Association (AA) and a BA and MA in Architecture from the University of Technology, Sydney, with her doctoral thesis exploring domestic struggles, particularly gender and class relations in Iran. Forensic Architecture (FA), based at Goldsmiths, Univers
Fernando Espeso
Stefano Dealessandri