ABSTRACT
This introduction gives a glimpse of the content available in the chapters that follow. One of the chapters draws upon the open systems notions of boids to document the informal settlements and human life of Caracas. Another discusses and documents through various types of drawing of what they term the ‘practical-social space’ of a Chinese village. Yet another chapter explores or moves beyond the limits of designerly and academic documentation through their account of the social-spatial experiences of refugees arriving in Berlin through a series of events and performances where the refugees and other locals play an active role. An anthropologist who works with architects and architectural design educators, produces a manifesto for Actor-Network Theory. The author of this book has since the early-1990s been experimenting with what landscape architectural urbanism might be: with a distinct focus on the social, through what is called as ‘landscape assemblages.
