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Budd, Connor

As climate change accelerates ecological upheaval, humanity faces the profound grief and loss of familiar landscapes that give us sense of place. Landsape architecture often responds to the challenges of climate change with ambitious, sweeping schemes, with no real course of action due their scale. These ideas rarely reckon with the long-term, tangible legacies left on the land by these decisions. Residual Ecologies proposes a future in which the climate change-exacerbated “Dissolution” in the 21st century eroded borders and centralized governance in nWorthwestern North America. From this societal and ecological chaos, four cult-like groups emerged, each acting on distinct understandings of how best to steward ecology and landscapes and embodying four broad climate change response philosphies common in landscape architecture - adaptation, preservation, restoration and relocation - each shaped by the ecosystems they inhabited. This project looks backward from 300 years in the future, speculating on their formation, successes, challenges and legacies. In doing so, Residual Ecologies serves not only as climate imaginary, but as a tool for the speculation of other climate change reactions and the long-term consequences of the decisions we make about landscape.

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University of British Columbia. LARC 598

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448813

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/