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American Disorientation is a panoramic viewfinder of the American landscape under climatic and political disorientation. If our disorientation is the one thing that remains reliable, then this publication takes the disorienting effects - and affects - of the American landscape as an opportunity for its reconfiguration.
American Disorientation pieces together a collective of views from activists, filmmakers, landscape architects, horticulturalists, curators, and academics from across the Americas, featuring: Abra Lee, Ben Balcom, DEGROWNYC, Dept, Marilyn Machado Mosquera, Mike Gibisser, Neyran Turan, Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana, Roberto Ransom Ruiz, Tania Tovar Torres, and Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Think Tank. Designed in collaboration with PROPS Supply and through funding from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
How do we make sense of the ground beneath us when it feels like it’s in free fall? American Disorientation compiles a collective panorama, presenting varied methodologies, strategies, and processes through which the contemporary American landscape is envisioned, engaged, and transformed.
Andy Lee (USA, 1993) is a Brooklyn, USA-based landscape architect whose practice integrates curatorial and filmic approaches to explore the cinematic body and film’s role in shaping alternative landscapes amid the climate crisis. He is currently the Emerging Curator Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellow 2024-2026, and was the 2023-2024 Fellow in Architectural Activism at the University of Wisconsin. Lee has been recognized with the prestigious 2020 Charles Eliot Traveling Prize from Harvard Graduate School of Design and the 2019 Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Lee’s work has been exhibited at the Harvard GSD, University of Wisconsin, and showcased at the Museum of Modern Art, the Icelandic University for the Arts, and the National Technical University in Athens. His writing has been featured in the Journal for Architectural Education (Tracking Across the American Desert: Filmic Translations of American Landscapes to the Helmand Valley and Back, 2023), the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at Pratt Institute.
PROPS Paper: American Disorientation Issue
Editor & Graphic Designer: Andy Lee
Book Design: PROPS Supply
Sound Design: Language Models
Flyer Design: Andy Lee