26 August, 2026
Landscape is in Everything
IFLA Europe Conference 2026, “Landscape in Transition”. Keynote lecture, 4 September.
Posts
26 August, 2026
The Landscape of Utopia
My most recent book is The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design.
1 January, 2026
New Year’s Resolutions for Universities
Here are a few resolutions for universities I posted before New Year 2026. They’re not perfect and they’re not comprehensive, and they don’t cover nearly as much ground as the wonderful Reclaiming Our University manifesto. They also fall short of utopianism, but they’re still far more radical than a lot of the tiny bandages being […]
19 September, 2024
Living and Studying in London
Here is a list of resources I worked to compile with the help of colleagues at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and which I have continued to update for the benefit of our landscape architecture students. There’s so much good information here I think it’s worthwhile to share here too! I’ve removed the Bartlett- and […]
9 February, 2024
Utopia ‘Down by the Power Lines’: Mojo Nixon’s Psychobilly Cockaigne
Pieter Bruegel’s 1567 painting of Luilekkerland (the land of Cockaigne), housed in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Note the pies as roof tiles and the roast pig walking around in the background. All these dudes need are some couches. Mojo Nixon has just died, aged 66, on 7 February 2024. I can’t help but imagine […]
26 August, 2026
Touching Buildings
When we touch buildings, do they touch us back? For answers, read “Touching Buildings”, an open access essay in the Cambridge architecture journal Scroope.
3 February, 2026
Open Access and Public Domain Imagery Online
Here is a list of excellent Internet sources for public domain/open access/copyleft images for art, architecture, and landscape. Remember that these images need to be referenced just the same as any copyrighted imagery. Many of these sites require registration or log in, and some mix open access images with images for which a fee must […]
29 November, 2025
Grace and the Poetics of Remediation
This piece was published in the 12th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture Barcelona Catalogue, and I will certainly be developing these themes and giving them the larger consideration they deserve in future. Poetics is the theory of the structure and form of poetry. As a study, it is concerned with how poetry is made and […]
9 March, 2024
Approaching Queer Island: Worlding and Imagining the Other
This is an odd (well, queer) little piece I wrote a couple of years ago. I’m not sure if it stands alone, but I’m not sure what else to do with it, so I’ll just leave it here. It begins with an attempt to imagine myself as an Indigenous ancestor in a part of the […]
4 May, 2023
Utopia as Method for Planetary Landscapes
This is a short commissioned piece I wrote for the Design Council’s ‘Design for Planet 2022’ zine, which was edited by the whip-smart, redoubtable Will Jennings. For seasoned utopian scholars this will be pretty basic stuff, but I aimed for this piece to make utopian methodology accessible to a broad range of designers. Utopias commonly […]