"I find the push towards design organizing, towards co-design, and towards engagement exciting.
There has always been this false divide between designs that appeal to designers and those that provide social and ecological benefit, and that false divide is slowly disappearing.
I am excited by the range of efforts to address our warming and fracturing world, and by the recognition that we need collective and interdisciplinary approaches to make any difference." - Jill Desimini (
@fromfallow )
Hear from Jill Desimini at this year's
@livingcitiesforum .
Tickets via the 🔗 link in bio.
Jill is a landscape architect, program director, and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Connecticut. Desmini’s work focuses the critical intersection of social and climatic threats over time, to identify potentials for land reform to spread wealth and enable reciprocal human and non-human relationships .
Her projects address abandoned landscapes and devalued property, land banking, wildness in cities, climate adaptation, non-linear models of time, cartographic methods, alternative narratives, and data generation.
She is the author of Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation (UVA Press, 2022), From Fallow: 100 Ideas for Abandoned Urban Landscapes, (ORO 2019) and co-author of Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary (PAP 2016). Previously, Desmini was an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and worked at Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, Wallace, Roberts, and Todd, KieranTimberlake, and the City of New York.
Images:
1. Illustration 'Robinia pseudocacia (black locust): a drawing of the material nature and growth patterns of the species' from 'Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation' (UVA Press, 2022).
2. Page from 'From Fallow: 100 Ideas for Abandoned Urban Landscapes', (ORO 2019).
3. Page from 'From Fallow'.
4. Illustration, 'Sequencing the cyclical city, Philadelphia, 1999-2019: a hypothetical drive over, under, and around the Betsy Ross Bridge' from 'Cyclical City'.
5. Supplied portrait of
@fromfallow .
