Matter in Place. Geographies of Trash
- UrbanNext, May 9, 2017.
- 2632 words.
El Hadi Jazairy, Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, Geographies of Trash, No Density, Politics and economics, Rania Ghosn
Built environment, Carbon footprint, Carbon-emissions, CO2 emissions, Cultural agitator, Designer’s role, Ecological researches, Economics, Environment, Essay, Future generations, Future projections, Future tendencies, Geographical scale, Geography, Global Awareness, Health, Health crisis, Interdisciplinary design, Mapping, Network, New Statements on Nature, Political ecology, Sanitation, Sustainability, Urban exploration, Urban infrastructure, Urban Paradigms, Urban political ecology, Waste management
Excerpt from "Geographies of Trash" published by Actar Publishers -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2015939645
In August 1966, LIFE Magazine published “Planet Earth by Dawn’s Early Light,” a photo-essay from the Gemini 10 shuttle flight. Capturing the earth from the most remote perspective to date, the final photograph of the series showed a single trash bag floating in space, a bag which contained objects that NASA intended to leave behind before the mission’s return to Earth.