28/10/2025
Applications to Metropolitan Landscapes online Programme are open. Click the link in the bio for more info.
Metropolitan Landscapes is a collaborative online programme offered by the Architectural Association and Tec de Monterrey. Through a series of 12 weekend seminars, the programme is open to students and professionals based in Latin America.
Ongoing and overlapping socio-environmental crises are exposing the limitations of our current socio-ecological metabolisms and systems. Traditional —and often artificially constructed— urban-rural epistemologies and core-periphery dependency models need to be interrogated and rearticulated urgently. How are these conditions reflected in current architectural, urban, and landscape debates? And what role can landscape-oriented design play in both imagining and transitioning towards environmental justice?
Imagining alternative post-capitalist futures requires us to think about alternative progressive policies and community led models, regenerating ecosystems and social relations. How can architectural tools unveil the connections between dense urban agglomerations and the landscapes that fuel them — with energy, food, materials, data and waste?
The Metropolitan Landscapes programme is a response to the revealing and rethinking of these urgent conditions. It calls for a metropolitan discipline conscious of its colonial origins and our ongoing dependency on extractive practices in remote territories and puts forward the re-imagining of democratic urban and landscape alternatives within design practices.
