Lys Villalba . Lluís Alexandre Casanovas . photos: © José Hevia
Three Landscape Essays is a pilot project that tests strategies to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis in Southern-european public space. Different phenomena–including recent heat waves and prolonged droughts, alongside the normalization of extreme weather phenomena such as snowfall or torrential rains–, highlight the lack of preparedness of southern European cities for the evolving climate crisis. These new conditions compel us to rethink our public space. In urban areas, a widespread lack of shade and an increase in temperatures due to impermeable surfaces and a scarcity of plant species softening the effects of heat, urge us to resort to new imaginaries. Far from a limitation, this crisis offers the opportunity to reconsider public space as a meeting place for diversity, a site of comfort for individuals from the same or different species, a node of convergence for different worldviews beyond the human. Continue reading Villalba . Casanovas
