Sam Shui, MLA ‘17, Qiran Zhang, MLA ‘17, and Lin Zhu MLA ‘17, Migration Farm, 2016.
Logistical Futures
Date: 2016-Ongoing
Location: North America
Funding: Department of Landscape Architecture Wadsworth Endowment Grant; Design Research Initiative, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Logistical Futures research area develops ‘alter-urbanization’ strategies. [1]
By hypothetically suspending the economic and legal realities that inform the production of contemporary logistics landscapes, these speculative scenarios can help inform current decisions about the built environment.
1. Neil Brenner, “The Hinterland, Urbanised?” AD / Architectural Design July, August (2016): 127.