Re-Opening World Futures through Culture Landscapes. A Case in the Swiss Alps
Juli Osusky
Wedensday 27.5, 18.00 Patari Metaptychiakou

In times of climate crisis, we are witnessing the failures of modern planning and design in the diminishing of planetary futures. How, then, might we design otherwise? In this talk, I approach this question by examining culture landscapes in the Swiss Alps, where humans and non-humans together produce the conditions for mutual survival. By approaching landscapes as formed through water cycles, I speculate that designing cultural landscapes is a radically different practice from designing interventions; one that may open up alternative planetary futures in the Alps.

Juli Osusky is an Urbanist and Urban Designer based in Zurich, Switzerland, currently working at the Office for Urban Design of the city of Zurich. This talk is based on their master thesis in Architecture and Urbanism, which explores culture landscapes as a concept for dealing with water uncertainty in the alpine valley of Lumnezia, Switzerland, questioning the role of design. They hold degrees from TU Delft and ETH Zurich.

Within the framework of the course
PELION CHŌRA: Dissecting and Reweaving a Mountain
By The Observatory of the Countryside
Tutor: Metaxia Markaki

For online attendance contact  memarkaki@uth.gr