In Adjacency: Architecture and the Waste Management Industry

This essay investigates how design speculation in the university can produce social accountability and change within the world of new forms of environmental management such as waste management. It considers the case of three design-based prototypes that were developed as provocations not only to industry, but to other groups such as advocacy-based organizations and government agencies. Reflecting on the limits and consequences of each protoype, the paper proposes an idea of adjacency as a mode of engaging industry, drawing on anthropologist Paul Rabinow’s understanding of researching scientific research as a groundwork for architecture’s disciplinary role as observers.

Volume Editors
David Ruy & Lola Sheppard

ISBN
978-0-935502-95-4