Construct : Matter-in-place ; Trash at the boundaries -- Represent : Scales of trash ; Airspace: filling land ; Grid: siting landfills ; Networks: managing waste streams -- Project : Cap ; Collect ; Contain ; Preserve ; Form -- Assemble : Things
Summary
In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of new aesthetics and politics of urbanism. Honored with a 2014 ACSA Faculty Design Award, the book charts the geographies of trash in Michigan across scales to propose five speculative projects that bring to visibility disciplinary controversies on the relations of technology, space and politics
