Altered Landscapes as Meta-dimensional Entities: Unveiling Landscape Intelligences by Tracking Resilient Responses to Violent Disturbances and Disruptions Caused by Industrial Agents and Power Infrastructures. This research delves into the concept of landscapes from a post-Industrial perspective. Beyond a desire for a pristine state, it focuses on altered post-conditions to find clues in the social and biological responses as new forms of landscape intelligence: the signals of a world of survival and rejuvenation. It encompasses industrial historical backgrounds and case studies, shedding light on temporal and metadimensional conditions where technoscapes evolve and decay. The concepts of the death of a landscape, the rebirth of a landscape, and landscape reengineering accompany the reflections. The research aims to capture and measure the consequences of the mechanization of landscapes, highlighting the resiliency and adaptation of human and non-human societies. By tracking toxicities, mapping control networks and power infrastructure, and utilizing multimedia support, the research focuses on creating forms of display and spatialization to showcase cases of territorial violence and social and environmental injustice. It recognizes remarkable initiatives that rebalance forces across scales and time, while also highlighting the restorative efforts in today's natural, rural, and urban societies. The exploration of disturbances is accompanied by invisible forms of cooperation and coexistence, revealing new possibilities in spatial practices and regional design. To address the complexity of landscapes, transcalar and intersectional territorial methodologies are employed to portray the metadimensional condition of these hybrid environments. The research aims to develop mediums capable of unfolding the complex oscillations and fluctuations of the Earth system in real-time. It seeks to track historical violence through pattern analysis, displacement agents, and material inquiries across scales and time. Additionally, mapping the metabolism of synthetic nature aids in understanding the behavior of technocratic machines and the increasing synthetic world. The research contributes to recognizing and protecting the rights of natural bodies and imperceptible forms of life within disrupted landscapes. By revisiting landscape conditions altered by disturbances, the research aims to construct a meta-interpretation of cases and speculate on future scenarios based on historical narratives, data-based information, and terraforming patterns. Through multiscale, intersectional, and temporal approximations, the past, present, and future of injured, harmed, and exploited landscapes are unfolded, considering new jurisdictional scaffolds transcending national borders and geopolitical boundaries to address socio-environmental injustice and geo-spatial disturbance. Territorial analysis, complex modeling, collaborative living maps, 3D scanning and printing, AI iterations, intersectional mapping, and trans-scalar material investigations are employed as research methods. These tools aid in unpacking and documenting various forms of environmental transition and exhaustion across different sites and scales. The research unfolds social, cultural, technological, and biological patterns, presenting them in forms of embodiments and experiences, aiming to reframe and revalorize altered landscapes as augmented hybrid geographies. Through critical analysis, active communication, and engagement, the research explores transcalar and metatemporal dimensions of landscapes, opening new visions for research-based action on landscape ecologies. Keywords: landscapes, technoscapes, territorial violence, social and environmental injustice, resilience, spatial practices, transcalar methodologies, metatemporal analyses, hybrid geographies.

THE LANDSCAPE IS (NOT) A MACHINE: Geo.decoding altered landscapes from planetary to molecular. Transcalar and Metatemporal critical revision of man-made geographical forms towards future post-industrial Eden’s.

HAIEK COLL, TUFIC ALEJANDRO
2024-05-31

Abstract

Altered Landscapes as Meta-dimensional Entities: Unveiling Landscape Intelligences by Tracking Resilient Responses to Violent Disturbances and Disruptions Caused by Industrial Agents and Power Infrastructures. This research delves into the concept of landscapes from a post-Industrial perspective. Beyond a desire for a pristine state, it focuses on altered post-conditions to find clues in the social and biological responses as new forms of landscape intelligence: the signals of a world of survival and rejuvenation. It encompasses industrial historical backgrounds and case studies, shedding light on temporal and metadimensional conditions where technoscapes evolve and decay. The concepts of the death of a landscape, the rebirth of a landscape, and landscape reengineering accompany the reflections. The research aims to capture and measure the consequences of the mechanization of landscapes, highlighting the resiliency and adaptation of human and non-human societies. By tracking toxicities, mapping control networks and power infrastructure, and utilizing multimedia support, the research focuses on creating forms of display and spatialization to showcase cases of territorial violence and social and environmental injustice. It recognizes remarkable initiatives that rebalance forces across scales and time, while also highlighting the restorative efforts in today's natural, rural, and urban societies. The exploration of disturbances is accompanied by invisible forms of cooperation and coexistence, revealing new possibilities in spatial practices and regional design. To address the complexity of landscapes, transcalar and intersectional territorial methodologies are employed to portray the metadimensional condition of these hybrid environments. The research aims to develop mediums capable of unfolding the complex oscillations and fluctuations of the Earth system in real-time. It seeks to track historical violence through pattern analysis, displacement agents, and material inquiries across scales and time. Additionally, mapping the metabolism of synthetic nature aids in understanding the behavior of technocratic machines and the increasing synthetic world. The research contributes to recognizing and protecting the rights of natural bodies and imperceptible forms of life within disrupted landscapes. By revisiting landscape conditions altered by disturbances, the research aims to construct a meta-interpretation of cases and speculate on future scenarios based on historical narratives, data-based information, and terraforming patterns. Through multiscale, intersectional, and temporal approximations, the past, present, and future of injured, harmed, and exploited landscapes are unfolded, considering new jurisdictional scaffolds transcending national borders and geopolitical boundaries to address socio-environmental injustice and geo-spatial disturbance. Territorial analysis, complex modeling, collaborative living maps, 3D scanning and printing, AI iterations, intersectional mapping, and trans-scalar material investigations are employed as research methods. These tools aid in unpacking and documenting various forms of environmental transition and exhaustion across different sites and scales. The research unfolds social, cultural, technological, and biological patterns, presenting them in forms of embodiments and experiences, aiming to reframe and revalorize altered landscapes as augmented hybrid geographies. Through critical analysis, active communication, and engagement, the research explores transcalar and metatemporal dimensions of landscapes, opening new visions for research-based action on landscape ecologies. Keywords: landscapes, technoscapes, territorial violence, social and environmental injustice, resilience, spatial practices, transcalar methodologies, metatemporal analyses, hybrid geographies.
31-mag-2024
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