Landscapes of Retreat - Rosetta S. Elkin furniture design Today’s urban environments are layered

Today’s urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space

in old age

revealing aspects of the departure into modernity

The Otolith Group

moreThe Yiddish word “Kolbojnik” (Waste

Landscapes of Retreat - Rosetta S. Elkin furniture design Today’s urban environments are layeredLandscapes of Retreat are portraits of climate adaptation. Retreat is found in the land that is left behind as settlement patterns shift due to a changing climate. The term landscape refers to the earth animated by the aliveness of creatures and organisms, and the term retreat suggests that human patterns are not fixed but might also be enlivened. Featuring in depth field studies from Nijinomatsubara Forest, Japan; El Maule, Chile; Niugtaq, Alaska;