- Design Karel Martens, Aagje Martens
- January 2022
English/Dutch
Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
170 × 240 mm
Editors of this issue
David Peleman, Martina Barcelloni-Corte, Elsbeth Ronner, Paola Viganò
Editors
Justin Agyin, Tom Avermaete, Aslı Çiçek, Bart Decroos, Stefan Devoldere, Kornelia Dimitrova, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Maarten Liefooghe, Sereh Mandias, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey
Authors
Eduardo Abrantes, Alexandra Arenes, Tulay Atak, Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, Isabella Baranyk, Michele Bee, Cristina Bianchetti, Pascal Boivin, Livia Cahn, Pu Hsien Chan, Gilles Clement, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Michiel Dehaene, Romeo Dipura, Rosetta Elkin, Teresa Gali-Izar, Urtzi Grau, Claire Guenat, Atabile Gwagwa, Luke Harris, Ilmar Hurkxkens, Thierry Kandjee, Louisa King, Paul Landauer, Linda Lapiņa, Joanna Lombard, JulianMeier, Germain Meulemans, Stefano Munarin, Ruth Oldham, David Peleman, Chiara Pradel, Sara Protasoni, Elsbeth Ronner, Kristine Samson, Isabel Recubenis Sanchis, Michael Stas, Anais Tondeur, Maria Chiara Tosi, Susanne Trumpf, Cara Turett, Ivan Valin, Hans Vandermaelen, Carmen Van Maercke, Antoine Vialle, Paola Viganò, Bonnie-Kate Walker, Kevin Westerveld
This issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil connects to urban planning and urban design, and how it can adjust those practices in exploring new agendas.
For a long time, the theme of soil – as matter, not as territory – has been the quasi exclusive subject of agriculture, geography and soil science. Only in the last few decades, due to a rapidly growing awareness of climate change, has soil increasingly come into focus in urban design, in particular as a matter that can also provide ecosystem services in urban environments.
The editors of OASE 110 believe that soils, although degraded and fragmented, call to be looked upon with a new gaze. They should be rearticulated in a new project aimed at the construction of a shared, productive and inhabited nature, containing different elements of urbanity and offering – at the same time – a more resilient and sustainable environment for all.
Inspired by Bernardo Secchi’s 1986 text ‘Progetto di Suolo’, this issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil – as an intermediary package that connects surface and subsurface – can further connect to the practices of urbanism and urban design, and how it can guide those practices in exploring new agendas.
Editors of this issue
David Peleman, Martina Barcelloni-Corte, Elsbeth Ronner, Paola Viganò
Editors
Justin Agyin, Tom Avermaete, Aslı Çiçek, Bart Decroos, Stefan Devoldere, Kornelia Dimitrova, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Maarten Liefooghe, Sereh Mandias, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey
Authors
Eduardo Abrantes, Alexandra Arenes, Tulay Atak, Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, Isabella Baranyk, Michele Bee, Cristina Bianchetti, Pascal Boivin, Livia Cahn, Pu Hsien Chan, Gilles Clement, Martina Barcelloni Corte, Michiel Dehaene, Romeo Dipura, Rosetta Elkin, Teresa Gali-Izar, Urtzi Grau, Claire Guenat, Atabile Gwagwa, Luke Harris, Ilmar Hurkxkens, Thierry Kandjee, Louisa King, Paul Landauer, Linda Lapiņa, Joanna Lombard, JulianMeier, Germain Meulemans, Stefano Munarin, Ruth Oldham, David Peleman, Chiara Pradel, Sara Protasoni, Elsbeth Ronner, Kristine Samson, Isabel Recubenis Sanchis, Michael Stas, Anais Tondeur, Maria Chiara Tosi, Susanne Trumpf, Cara Turett, Ivan Valin, Hans Vandermaelen, Carmen Van Maercke, Antoine Vialle, Paola Viganò, Bonnie-Kate Walker, Kevin Westerveld
This issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil connects to urban planning and urban design, and how it can adjust those practices in exploring new agendas.
For a long time, the theme of soil – as matter, not as territory – has been the quasi exclusive subject of agriculture, geography and soil science. Only in the last few decades, due to a rapidly growing awareness of climate change, has soil increasingly come into focus in urban design, in particular as a matter that can also provide ecosystem services in urban environments.
The editors of OASE 110 believe that soils, although degraded and fragmented, call to be looked upon with a new gaze. They should be rearticulated in a new project aimed at the construction of a shared, productive and inhabited nature, containing different elements of urbanity and offering – at the same time – a more resilient and sustainable environment for all.
Inspired by Bernardo Secchi’s 1986 text ‘Progetto di Suolo’, this issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil – as an intermediary package that connects surface and subsurface – can further connect to the practices of urbanism and urban design, and how it can guide those practices in exploring new agendas.