Rob Holmes: 'Prosthetic Littoral'
Saturday 28 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Rob Holmes
With instruments such as turbidity curtains, slumping geotubes and confined disposal facilities, humans are radically reshaping the pedosphere, the thin skin of active soils that covers the Earth. These landscape prosthetics produce an anthropogenic counterpart to natural cycles like the rock and water cycles: the dredge cycle. Within this cyclic whirlwind of accelerated erosion and forced uplift, strange new landscapes are formed and reformed at an accelerating pace. This talk is a tour of such landscapes, the instruments that shape them, and the unexpected design opportunities that they may contain.
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Session 7: Landscape Transformation
Saturday 28 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Jananne Al-Ani & Rob Holmes & Michael Welland
Humans have built cities, physical infrastructures, roads and railways and electricity grids. Through agriculture humans have changed the face of the Earth dramatically. Humans have also created artificial islands from sand, turned lakes into polders, valleys into lakes, diverted the courses of rivers, and through irrigation made lakes into deserts.