A Manual for Bioregional Design - Future Observatory Journal
N°1 Bioregioning - Future Observatory Journal
Editors of this issue
Justin McGuirk, Cher Potter, George Kafka, Lila Boschet, Jennifer Cunningham, Aaron Juneau, Andrea Conde Pereira,
Contributors
Andrea Conde Pereira, Arturo Escobar, BC architects & studies, Calvin Po, Cher Potter, Dan Hill, Donella Meadows, Ella Hubbard, George Kafka, Jennifer Cunningham, Justin McGuirk, Justinien Tribillon, Lila Boschet, Sharon Prendeville & Shayari de Silva
Publishers
Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, delivered in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Design and art direction
Studio Airport
Editorial Board
Arturo Escobar, Dan Hill, Kristina Hill, Lydia Kallipoliti, Ramia Mazé, Timothy Morton, Osseo-Asare, Sarah Teasley, Thomas Weaver
Future Observatory Journal is a biannual online journal on design, ecology and futures. Our aim is to create a space for rethinking the frameworks within which design operates. Published by Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, the journal aims to expand the often narrow scope in which design and ‘sustainability’ are discussed. Each issue explores a theme through three lenses: 'Forecast' borrows the format of trend forecasting to offer a thematic overview of a key concept, 'strategy provides an analysis of the systemic implications of the theme and 'practice' substantiates that view with case studies, interviews and think pieces.
The first issue of Future Observatory Journal focuses on Bioregioning. Bioregioning redraws the boundaries of climate action, using the immediate landscape as a template for design, politics and regeneration. Zooming in is the new scaling up.
For each issue of the Future Observatory Journal a manual is commissioned. This is intended as a practical set of guidelines, precepts or pieces of advice from design and research practitioners who work in dialogue with the issue’s theme. The manual can be read online here, or printed out and stuck on your studio wall in the form of a bespoke poster designed by Studio Airport.
This issue BC architects & studies & materials was commissioned. BC has an explicitly bioregional practice, often experimenting with locally sourced materials and knowledge to make their projects, which include LOT 8, the new Atelier LUMA building in Arles, completed with Assemble in 2023.
