Tim Waterman
Planetarity and Design Imaginaries
Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His research addresses imaginaries: moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian. This forms the basis for explorations of power and democracy and their shaping of public space and public life; taste, manners, belief and ritual; and foodways in community and civic life and landscape. He is the author of The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design and editor of Landscape Citizenships with Ed Wall and Jane Wolff, Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall, and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert.
Earthliness, worldliness, and globality all provide different frames for thinking about life on our planet. They also provide different frames for ‘worlding’—the creation and maintenance of shared mental worlds that both arise from and result in earthly landscapes of everyday life. This talk will range from cartography and colonialism to utopianism and resistance to show how crucial it is to understand and remake ways in which worlds are made in the architectures. These are worlds not merely found in the built environment, but inside our heads.
