Climate Inheritance

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Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites-from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands-have garnered empathetic attention in a media landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis.  
In a strategic subversion of the media aura of heritage, DESIGN EARTH casts ten World Heritage sites as narrative figures to visualize pervasive climate risks-rising sea levels, extinction, droughts, air pollution, melting glaciers, material vulnerability, unchecked tourism, and the massive displacement of communities and cultural artifacts-all while situating the present emergency within the wreckages of other ends of world, replete with the salvages of extractivism, racism, and settler colonialism.  The possibilities of such climate inheritances are narrated in drawing triotvchs and mythologies that bequeath other worlds and values.
With Contributions of Lucia Allais, David Gissen, Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Actar
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 29, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1638400997
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1638400998
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.55 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.75 x 10 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #357,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #124 in Sustainability & Green Design #372 in Climatology #380 in Illustration and Graphic Design
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