Like a Shell futurologist, one can imagine multiple disastrous futures for Miami. Will it become a southern Super Venice, a la Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York of 2140...Perhaps the hard realism of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife is more apt...Or imagine a super Katrina resulting in something a little more Odds Against Tomorrow: — the Brooklyn Rail
Stephanie Wakefield penned some Field Notes from the Anthropocene, inspired by a recent honeymoon in Miami Beach. In which she explores 'experimentation' as a mode of dwelling in the Anthropocene and the emancipatory possibilities offered by the concept of the 'back loop.'
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Backloops and novel ecologies. Living on the edge and learning on the fly.
it just clicked with me that Wakefield's essay is similar to Walter Hoods Urban diaries :improvisation in West Oakland, California creates a space for speculation at looking everyday habits of people and how environment impacts them. For Hood the possibilities are extrapolated directly, challenging how we adapt to these common events. Wakefield is questioning how the long, unfolding impacts of climate change will impact affect change.
Both these perspectives challenge designers to address real needs and problems with solutions that are responsive to daily needsand habits.
Need to read that Hood book. Based on this description, the focus on improvisation in particular seems to jive with the thrust of this essay.
I'm referring to his essay in
, but that is a good spacemaker.
In. everyday urbanism
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