The fictional soils of a ‘sustainable’ Anthropocene: A new materialist story of the soils of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

IF 0.4 4区艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE

Journal of Landscape Architecture Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1080/18626033.2022.2156104

Eric Guibert, Alec Tostevin

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Abstract The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London has been celebrated as an exemplar of sustainable landscape architecture and regeneration. Yet tracing the new materialist histories of its enmeshed soils reveals how complex sustainable landscape architecture is. On the one hand, the park has expertly recycled and locally sourced its materials. On the other, the socio-ecosystems of its soil assemblages have been pulverized, treated and mixed to create a new profile of synthetic geological strata. Their history and life have been erased. The subterranean sections through this park are caricatures of a ‘sustainable Anthropocene’. Here, the anthropogenic geology supporting the vision of idealized future ecosystems is used for the global marketing of a nation and property developments. This project indicates a destructive systemic blindness in sustainable approaches and the need for truly regenerative design processes, based on working with a place, including the various (other-than) human inhabitants, instead of solely mining its materials to create a perfect vision anew.

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伦敦伊丽莎白女王奥林匹克公园被誉为可持续景观建筑和再生的典范。然而，追踪其缠绕土壤的新唯物主义历史揭示了可持续景观建筑的复杂性。一方面，该公园熟练地回收并在当地采购材料。另一方面，其土壤组合的社会生态系统已被粉碎，处理和混合，以创造一个新的合成地质地层剖面。他们的历史和生活都被抹去了。这个公园的地下部分是“可持续人类世”的漫画。在这里，支持理想化的未来生态系统愿景的人为地质学被用于国家和房地产开发的全球营销。该项目表明，在可持续方法方面存在破坏性的系统性盲目性，需要真正的再生设计过程，基于与一个地方的合作，包括各种(除了)人类居民，而不是仅仅挖掘其材料来重新创造一个完美的愿景。

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期刊介绍： JoLA is the academic Journal of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), established in 2006. It is published three times a year. JoLA aims to support, stimulate, and extend scholarly debate in Landscape Architecture and related fields. It also gives space to the reflective practitioner and to design research. The journal welcomes articles addressing any aspect of Landscape Architecture, to cultivate the diverse identity of the discipline. JoLA is internationally oriented and seeks to both draw in and contribute to global perspectives through its four key sections: the ‘Articles’ section features both academic scholarship and research related to professional practice; the ‘Under the Sky’ section fosters research based on critical analysis and interpretation of built projects; the ‘Thinking Eye’ section presents research based on thoughtful experimentation in visual methodologies and media; the ‘Review’ section presents critical reflection on recent literature, conferences and/or exhibitions relevant to Landscape Architecture.