Soil Lab: A Built Experiment - Brossura

Bruun, Maria; Martin, James Albert; Chathasaigh, Eibhlin Ni; Vester, Anne Dorthe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1638401063 ISBN 13: 9781638401063

Casa editrice: Actar, 2023

Riassunto

This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

The pages give space to a conversation that stretches far outside both the confines of the Soil Lab’s site in North Lawndale and the short duration of the biennial. The book is a meeting place for the voices which contributed to the Soil Lab project, and maps their constellation of disciplines—across architecture, art, anthropology, ecology, craft and community work—and global geographies, including the US, Denmark, Ireland, Puerto Rico and Austria. The story of the project, and the many lives and threads that it brushed up against, is told through histories, criticism, photographic essays, instruction manuals, soil recipes and interviews.

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We realized early on in this process that to try to tell the story with our own words would be futile, as the project was made by more than our own hands (and heads): neighbors, high school students, carpenters, bricklayers, ecologists, ceramicists, archaeologists, a mathematician, retirees, artists, architects and bicycle mechanics. People working night shifts joined us after breakfast. People who were skilled or unskilled, but all enthusiastic and eager to make. While it has not been possible to identify and give credit to everyone who has contributed to the development of the project, it is important to us to acknowledge that they exist. We present this book as the product of the sustained and diligent work of a network of intersecting and overlapping communities, which we are fortunate enough to be learning from and with. In these pages are some of the people we met in the process, the people with which we built the structure, and those who helped us navigate and make sense of it. This is as much their story as it is ours, and this book is dedicated to them, to the Soil Lab community we made during the summer of 2021. 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Actar
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1638401063
• ISBN 13: 9781638401063
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 165
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile