29/04/2025
Was great to talk to ʟᴀɴᴅᴢɪɴᴇ about our new book, T͎h͎i͎n͎k͎i͎n͎g͎ ͎T͎h͎r͎o͎u͎g͎h͎ ͎S͎o͎i͎l͎ (link in bio).
Thanks so much to Urška Škerl for setting this up. As writes:
This case study from the Mezquital Valley, in Mexico, represents a possible wastewater urbanism scenario that researchers grasp through soil. By singling out a series of “characters,” from a cow to metformin, who each tell a story of the soil’s horizon, they compose a wider picture of contributing relations to the soil formation, 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘶𝘱. By identifying participants, their contingencies and processes, the designers propose future scenarios for a new soil horizon, taking into account complex socio-economic, political, agricultural, ecological, and health issues. The research cross-sects geographical and urban analysis, toxicology studies, cultural studies, diet, ethnocide, technological investments, botanical research, water quality, sewer, drainage, … that are inherently embedded in the soil’s identity. By this, as the authors write, understanding the soil as “inseparable from its unrealized possibilities and potential future”, the emerging soil is “inherently capable of change”.
