Idea by
Xiaoyang Fang, Siqi Ding, Yuanpei Zhuang
UN-Office(Uncertainty Network Office)
Call for ideas 2021
Invisible Landscape
Invisible Landscape

- New alliances
The project reviews “invisible” extractivism in greenhouse urbanization under ecological masquerade. In a perspective of critical pragmatism rather than critical regionalism, the research explores the collaborative mechanism of global logistics, infrastructure, migration, and technology in ecological production. An online archive of photographs, cartographies, articles, and interviews aims to collect the images and stories of climate control, environmental transformation, and labor appropriation during the photosynthetic colonization.
The greenhouse has been rarely studied as an architectural typology, and greenhouse urbanization has been less mentioned as a form of urbanism. Yet this investigation of these “invisible landscapes” would provide us new perspectives of human interaction, intervention, and invasion into nature, and they also reflect the romanticized ecological conspiracy in political, economic, and anthropological realms.

CHESSBOARD OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC COLONIZATION; CONVEYOR BELTS OF ECO-COMMODITIES

ECO-MOBIUS PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE OF GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE

ZODIAC OF GREENHOUSE URBANIZATION

FLOATING PERPETUAL MOTION LOOP OF GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE

GREENHOUSE URBANIZATION-A NEW UTOPIA, OR NOT?
Invisible Landscape
Invisible Landscape

- New alliances
The project reviews “invisible” extractivism in greenhouse urbanization under ecological masquerade. In a perspective of critical pragmatism rather than critical regionalism, the research explores the collaborative mechanism of global logistics, infrastructure, migration, and technology in ecological production. An online archive of photographs, cartographies, articles, and interviews aims to collect the images and stories of climate control, environmental transformation, and labor appropriation during the photosynthetic colonization.
The greenhouse has been rarely studied as an architectural typology, and greenhouse urbanization has been less mentioned as a form of urbanism. Yet this investigation of these “invisible landscapes” would provide us new perspectives of human interaction, intervention, and invasion into nature, and they also reflect the romanticized ecological conspiracy in political, economic, and anthropological realms.

CHESSBOARD OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC COLONIZATION; CONVEYOR BELTS OF ECO-COMMODITIES

ECO-MOBIUS PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE OF GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE

ZODIAC OF GREENHOUSE URBANIZATION

FLOATING PERPETUAL MOTION LOOP OF GREENHOUSE AGRICULTURE

GREENHOUSE URBANIZATION-A NEW UTOPIA, OR NOT?