Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy, Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment | Fred Scharmen, Space Settlements

“Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?” Gerard O’Neill Geostories is a collection of fantastical proposals for a world run amok. The book posits proposals that harvest Antarctic ice, occupy emptied oil reserves, and make monuments of landfills...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dean, Sara
Format: Review
Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2020
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/563
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Summary:“Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?” Gerard O’Neill Geostories is a collection of fantastical proposals for a world run amok. The book posits proposals that harvest Antarctic ice, occupy emptied oil reserves, and make monuments of landfills. These interventions are developed through a blend of disciplinary representational mashups and meticulous craft in drawing, with Easter eggs and winks to past utopian projects, and imagining futu.