Rob Holmes
Rob Holmes is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Auburn University and co-founder of the Dredge Research Collaborative. His research is most centrally concerned with how infrastructures constructed in support of urbanization relate to landscape change. Prior to joining Auburn, he practiced landscape architecture in Virginia and taught in Florida, Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio.
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This report describes the current state of affairs in the Bay-Delta with a summary of scientific research and maps, diagrams, and drawings that concisely visualize sediment in geographic context. Eleven key recommendations then outline the contours of new thinking that can meet the sedimentary challenges that the Bay-Delta faces and emphasize directions for additional research. The principles articulated in the report are based on the work of DredgeFest California, a week-long event held in the Bay Area in July 2016.
The theoretical work of this paper ties together three distinct but related strands of contemporary theory impacting the field of landscape architecture: emergence and indeterminacy, new materialist thinking in philosophy, and discourse related to the concept of the Anthropocene. Theoretical arguments that engage these strands and a selective environmental history of the Salton Sea work together to advance our case for the generative capacity of failure and entropy. This case develops concepts for understanding how failure and entropy operate, applying a discourse that, within landscape architectural theory, has primarily focused on ecological phenomena and discrete sites to the behavior of geological, hydrological, sedimentary, and infrastructural assemblages at very large scales. Ultimately, the paper argues that there will be an important role for landscape architectural design that understands how to operate within the context of very large scale landscapes experiencing failure and entropy.
This report describes the current state of affairs in the Bay-Delta with a summary of scientific research and maps, diagrams, and drawings that concisely visualize sediment in geographic context. Eleven key recommendations then outline the contours of new thinking that can meet the sedimentary challenges that the Bay-Delta faces and emphasize directions for additional research. The principles articulated in the report are based on the work of DredgeFest California, a week-long event held in the Bay Area in July 2016.
The theoretical work of this paper ties together three distinct but related strands of contemporary theory impacting the field of landscape architecture: emergence and indeterminacy, new materialist thinking in philosophy, and discourse related to the concept of the Anthropocene. Theoretical arguments that engage these strands and a selective environmental history of the Salton Sea work together to advance our case for the generative capacity of failure and entropy. This case develops concepts for understanding how failure and entropy operate, applying a discourse that, within landscape architectural theory, has primarily focused on ecological phenomena and discrete sites to the behavior of geological, hydrological, sedimentary, and infrastructural assemblages at very large scales. Ultimately, the paper argues that there will be an important role for landscape architectural design that understands how to operate within the context of very large scale landscapes experiencing failure and entropy.