ART PAPERS 47.01 - Fall 2023

ART PAPERS 47.01

COUNTER ECOLOGIES

This issue of ART PAPERS—Counter Ecologies—is guest edited by Carson Chan and staff of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at MoMA. The special issue digs into cultural contexts behind ecological visions being presented in the exhibition Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism (on view at MoMA September 17, 2023–January 20, 2024)—the first comprehensive survey of environmental architecture at a major museum.

Edited to accompany the exhibition and its catalogue, this issue of ART PAPERS foregrounds the always-political dimension of any environmental project. In claiming to speak for the earth, this issue asks: Whose voices have been foregrounded, and whose have been silenced? What are the counter ecologies that run against the mainstream dictates of environmental discourse? Whether shining a light on the pioneering but unsung work of environmental architects, or tracing the continuing impact of past environmental justice movements on the activism of today, Counter Ecologies presents many conflicting political projects launched under the sign of the ecological.

Table of Contents

EDITOR’S LETTER

Carson Chan + Ambasz Institute

FEATURES

Eva Lavranou On Coconuts and Earthships: An— Interview with Mae-ling Lokko

Daniel Barber Architecture and Sufficiency: A Case Study in Applied History

Karina Teichert Protests - Warren County, Uma Dam, Cop City, etc

Dalal Musaed Alsayer Constructing the Environmental Imaginary

Omeasoo Wahpasiw Letters to my Friends: Indigenous Land as Monument

Matthew Wagstaffe An Architectural Nature—Interview with Glen Small

Emilio Ambasz Fables

ARTIST PROJECT

Eugene Tssui NATURE’S INTELLIGENCE

CLOSE READINGS

Samantha Muka Flipper, Cousteau, and Homo aquaticus

Rami Kanafani The Last Frontier Left to Conquer: Brief Reflections on Silent Running (1972)

Emily Klancher Merchant The Population Bomb in the Rearview Mirror

Meredith Gaglio Bioshelter Toilet

Nicholas Risteen Arata Isozaki, Re-Ruined Hiroshima, photomontage, 1968

ARTIST PROJECT

Phyllis Birkby Images

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

GLOSSARY