New Geographies, 8

Island

Daniel Daou, Pablo Pérez-Ramos

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Harvard University Press
09 January 2017

Sociology & anthropology

Series: New Geographies

As a master metaphor, the island has been a fecund source of inspiration across many domains. From More's Utopia to Darwin's evolutionary theory to Ungers's archipelago, insights derived from ""island thinking"" are commonly extrapolated across diverse scales and fields. The appeal of the island metaphor lies in its capacity to simplify the complex and frame the apparently unbounded. Yet the concept seems to contradict current mainstream thought and practice in geographic and design fields. The globalization motifs of openness and interconnectedness, and ecology's privilege of environmental processes and flows over forms and boundaries, both challenge the pertinence of the island as a cognitive device for territorial description and intervention.

New Geographies, 8 proposes an epistemological pulse between, on the one hand, the ultimate loss of the exterior implied in planetary upscaling of territorial interpretations (toward an idea of the world as a whole) and, on the other hand, the need to rearrange new boundaries in an environment viewed through the process-oriented lens of ecology. An ""atlas"" of islands, New Geographies, 8 explores the new limits of islandness and gathers examples to reassert its relevance for design disciplines.

Edited by: Daniel Daou, Pablo Pérez-Ramos
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781934510452
ISBN 10: 1934510459
Series: New Geographies
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 09 January 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel Daou is a Doctor of Design candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Pablo Pérez-Ramos is a Doctor of Design candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Daniel Daou, Pablo Pérez-Ramos

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