Publisher's Synopsis
TESTING-GROUND is focused on research, experimentation, and design of landscapes, cities, and territories. It provides a platform for critiquing established theories and exploring emerging ideas across politics, ecology, and design. Each issue addresses challenges faced by our inhabited landscapes, calling on all who interact with our shared spaces to examine how theories and practices may be realised through new approaches and methods. Contributors to TESTING-GROUND have included: Eyal Weizman [Forensic Architecture], Daze Aghaji, Léopold Lambert [The Funambulist], Carmel Keren, Matthew Skjonsberg, Suzanne O'Connell [The Decorators], Thomas Mical, Jude Daniel Smith [Teach the Future], Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Tim Waterman, and Ed Wall.
TESTING-GROUND issue 03, Youthhood, examines worlds through youthful eyes, makes evident young ambitions, and questions how we can better empower young people to design cities, landscapes, and a planet that works for them. The issue includes contributions from: Carmel Keren, Jude Daniel Smith, Claire Edwards, Kazeem Kuteyi, Emmanuel Adarkwah, Reza Nik, Dan Cui, Kristofer Cullum-Fernandez, Fida Sassi, Simeon Shtebunaev, Daze Aghaji, Averill Dimabuyu, Sarri Elfaitouri, Rebecca McDonald-Balfour, and Ed Wall.
