New Geographies 10: Fallow

Editors
Michael Chieffalo
Julia Smachylo
Publisher
Copublished by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Actar
Designed By
Sean Yendrys
Details
Softcover, 158 pages, 8.03 x 10.04 inches / 20.4 x 25.5 cm
Issue
10
ISBN
978-1-948765-09-1
Cover Price
$29.95 / €25,00

New Geographies 10 borrows the term fallow as a metaphor to critically examine cycles of devaluing and revaluing built and unbuilt environments. In agriculture, fallowing is understood as a process of restoring latent ecological capacity through periodic idleness. “Fallow” extends this concept to a much broader spectrum of conditions, including many that are not immediately associated with crop rotation, but which are inscribed in diverse forms of devalorization and revalorization associated with geographies of industrial capitalism. Rather than assume a strict binary of fecund or barren, the texts assembled in this volume critically reflect on the sites, strategies, scales, and imaginaries of the devalued, the dormant, and the wasted, and explore revalorization in all its forms: cultural, ecological, economic, and social.