Routledge - (Co)Designing Hope: Aqueous Landscapes in Transition

The climate crisis is primarily a water crisis. Extreme weather events, including droughts, floods, melting glaciers, and sea-level rise, serve as constant reminders of our changing environment. Beyond the physical shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, we face a crisis of imagination regarding how to respond with visionary and pragmatic action. (Co)Designing Hope: Aqueous Landscapes in Transition explores how the discipline of landscape architecture can address these urgent challenges. By utilizing a plural and collective approach, this work examines how design can navigate the complexities of the changing water cycle and water salinization. This book provides a foundation for understanding how creative, far-sighted action can meet the demands of a changing world through the lens of landscape architecture and aqueous landscape design.