We are a chair in transition, which enables us to work with the deep grounds, the so-called ‘composts’ of the Anthropocene that Prof Undine Giseke et al. piled up and to which we add further perspectives.

We understand landscapes from a posthumanist, new-materialist perspective. This means that landscapes are everywhere—they are not passive backgrounds or stages for human action on which inanimate ‘things’ can be fixed and managed. Landscape is not ‘out there’.

Landscapes are active, richer-than-human worlds that humans are part of—‘entangled’ (DH) in myriad dependencies with ‘other’ actors. In this more-than-human setting, we work in the dialogue and friction between matter and perception. Landscapes can be understood as critical zones (BL) where all this vibrant, constantly changing togetherness happens. 

We design. And we investigate. Design is not merely ‘solutions’ but means intervening in these more-than-human entanglements. The effects are partly open. Design is not about control but merging, stitching and overlaying perspectives, situated knowledge and fabulating (DH) meaningful narratives! We are experimenting and searching for platforms for exchange about and with a common (!) material world.

The current epoch—or event—of the so-called Anthropocene is offering exciting and challenging times for Landscape Architecture. Expanding our knowledge, working with complexity, and finding new solidarity are required. These are times of deep rethinking.  

We invite everybody interested to join us in sharing their individual experiences and perspectives.

Let’s stay with the trouble! (DH)