Kerb is an annual cross-disciplinary design journal published via the Department of Landscape Architecture at the RMIT University School of Architecture and Urban Design in Melbourne, Australia.
Kerb 29: Wild examines how the systems we have established to civilise and control our environment have distanced us from our landscapes, their non-human inhabitants and each other, leading to unintended but deeply destructive consequences for all. Looking at these systems through the lens of the ‘wild’, it turns a critical eye to notions such as the human/wild binary, empty wilderness, ‘abandonment’ and ‘othering’, instead looking at emergent practices in designing with wildness.
Contributions include Dermot Foley on the notions of abandonment vs rewilding. Brent Greene and Alistair Kirkpatrick on queering Melbourne's urban ecology and the false dichotomy between human and wild. Alistair Gabb, Mark Foletta and Skye Traill on wildness in agriculture and Michael G. White on how digital simulations of growth could help mitigate negative impact when intervening in a wild system. Other contributors include Charles Massy, Salad Dressing, Carol Moukheiber and Martin Hogue.
Uro Publications, 128pp, illustrated, 21cm x 30cm, paperback
