Category: Issue-5-2025

Artificial natures exemplify how human desires, technological innovation, and environmental considerations intersect, creating hybrid landscapes that encapsulate both dreams, ideas, ideologies and anxieties of our era. As such, investigating these spaces may provide critical insights into contemporary cultural narratives, urban planning practices, ecological ethics, and social dynamics.

Over the past seven years, fuse* has undertaken a continuous exploration of botany, ecology, and artificial intelligence. Through three distinct but interconnected series – Artificial Botany, Unseen Flora, and Mimicry – the studio’s practice investigates how algorithmic tools can be used not only to simulate but also to reimagine natural systems, species, and evolutionary trajectories.…

This essay is an experiment emerging from a long-term photographic project. For over six years, we have done a photo documentation of the structures that children build in the forest. A small selection taken from this substantial archive will be presented here, alongside this essay. With this text we want to demonstrate, that these ‘dens’…

This essay critically examines the proposition of whether a damaged landscape can serve as a generative starting point for design outcomes. Focusing on extractive landscapes, it explores the evolving narratives across Germany, India, and the United States. These contexts provide contrasting yet interconnected material with their inherent possibilities and narratives. By engaging with these geographies,…

This study explores the possibility of applying serious games to increase citizen participation and foster spatial justice in urban decision-making processes. Drawing on theories of spatial justice, social innovation, and participatory spatial planning, it investigates how game-based approaches can smooth dialogue between citizens, experts, and other stakeholders. The focus is to bridge the gap between…