Architecture, weeds and the chemical calculus of decay / Lindsay Bremner. Illustrated glossary of monsoonal terms / John Cook -- Chennai, city of airs / Lindsay Bremner -- Dhaka, a city woven from water / Beth Cullen -- Yangon, a city shaped by the geological monsoon / Lindsay Bremner and Beth Cullen -- Monsoonal cartographies / Tom Benson, John Cook and Christina Geros -- Drawing the monsoon into eco-critical conversations / Lindsay Bremner -- Intuiting a monsoonal ethnography / Beth Cullen -- Monsoonal thermodynamics / Lindsay Bremner -- Fieldwork encounters with monsoon time / Beth Cullen -- Design studio as method: un-grounding and re-grounding design pedagogy / Lindsay Bremner -- Monsoonal atmospheres / Christina Geros -- The air of the monsoon: in myth, pause and story / Harshavardhan Bhat -- The ocean and the monsoon / Christina Geros -- Thinking with groundwater from Chennai / Anthony Powis -- Salt, matter and mattering / Christina Geros -- Monsoonal sediments / Lindsay Bremner -- Plastic trails: tracing recalcitrant matter / Beth Cullen -- Bangla bricks: constellations of monsoonal mobilities / Beth Cullen -- Canals as infrastructure for constructing the indebted state / Christina Geros -- South Indian tanks as meteorological infrastructure / Beth Cullen -- Pipes and pots / Lindsay Bremner -- Atmospheric ecologies of the Pantala flavescens dragonfly / Beth Cullen -- The changing monsoonal waterworlds of the hilsa fish / Beth Cullen -- Stickiness of the Halasina Hannu / Harshavardhan Bhat -- Earth goddesses, snakes and the monsoon / Beth Cullen -- Architecture, weeds and the chemical calculus of decay / Lindsay Bremner.
Summary:
"The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a co-producer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. The book invites urban practitioners, from architects to policy makers, to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene"--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.