The broader impact is to tell the story of communality and rural well-being. The Ranch is slow and incremental, maintained with care and respect attempting to develop a re-use of its land. We are part of the land’s continuity. It is non-hierarchical.
Those who join in this continuity locate comfort in this quasi domestic landscape. It is a young space/practice in the geological sense, exploring this minutiae through making, its food, craft, mediating failure, weather, flora and fauna of the everyday. The experimental nature of the architectural gesture arises from this land.
We would bring these various tacit and non-tacit events and projects into a collection of landscape narratives in the form of a publication. We have received numerous generous contributions from participants and visitors in the past year.
We think it’s climatically relevant moment to expose these processes in the X Ranch book.