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Lecture by Jane Mah Hutton: "Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements"
Drawing from the book project, Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements, this talk explores how the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from are related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed. Following the movement of common construction materials in their many contexts and forms offers a chance to see them as more than fixed commodities and rather as continuous with other landscapes, people, and species elsewhere. The talk will touch on methods of following materials in motion, and the questions that arise while doing so.
Jane Mah Hutton teaches landscape architecture at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Her research focuses on the expanded social-ecological relationships of the act of building – from material flows to extractive and regenerative land practices to labour movements. Recent books include Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements, Landscript 5: Material Culture-Assembling and Disassembling Landscapes, and Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial, co-edited with Daniel Ibanez and Kiel Moe.
Moderated by Fabrizio Furiassi