ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the current ideas of technology in design of built environment and whether landscape can be considered technology through the concept of techne as it is used in the making of landscape architecture and landscape architectural form and processes. Landscape architecture is a living dynamic design process, with dead-ends, backtracking, leaps of imagination supported by periods of creative design synthesis and integration. The design strategy was concerned with practical technological matters: to reclaim waste landscape spaces along the rivers that currently run through Kibera for new community amenities. These spaces are public lands and if cleared of trash and fortified by basic flood control means, can form a new infrastructure. In the past decade different versions of landscape and infrastructural urbanism, digital landscape descriptions and critical theories have emerged. The sponge project radically re-imagines the traditional dyke by proposing a hybrid structure, a landscape technological infrastructure that both absorbs water and acts as a structural element for urbanization.
