Abstract
This article focuses on Leave Catalytic Traces, a design entry for the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) Fly Ranch 2020 Design Competition, located in Fly Ranch, Nevada, USA. Co-hosted by LAGI, an organization that develops artistic renewable energy infrastructure, and the Burning Man Project, which organizes the annual nine-day art festival Burning Man nearby, the programmatic requirements of the competition included the mitigation of the festival’s environmental impact, ecological restoration and a demonstration of renewable energy generation through infrastructural sculpture at Fly Ranch. In response, this research through design case study investigates: (1) Land-based Infrastructures (LBI) as resilient infrastructure and a flexible process-driven framework for site design; (2) a temporary event harnessing participatory processes as a generative strategy; and (3) acupunctural land-based interventions as dynamic ‘sculptures’. The article argues that the work proposes a new design and research process that combines speculative futures and projective imaginaries, which are tested through the development of a process-driven design approach by deploying sitespecific land-based interventions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 30-43 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Landscape Architecture |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS).
Keywords
- Burning Man Festival
- ecological mitigation
- land-based infrastructure
- participatory processes
- resilient design strategies
- temporary events