Origin Stories: The Migration of Material Practices

Harvard GSD

Landscape regions are conventionally defined through a set of interrelated logics: deterministic (geology, biogeography, climate), administrative (governance, policy), functional (markets, logistics), and projective (planning, development, colonization). Together, these logics stabilize landscapes into discipline specific, coherent, and generally contiguous—if contested—regions. This seminar examines a more elusive register: the ways modern landscape regions are defined through a…