DELUS. The Journal of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies

The pilot issue of DELUS offers a range of diverse insights into landscape and urban questions. It introduces new methods to unpack multiple worlds and narrate manifold stories. The contributions range from unraveling histories of land-body relations through recipes with Luiza Prado de O. Martins, following living fossils and their mythical counterparts with Christina Gruber, working with communities to examine extractive environments with Karin Reisinger, exploring postnatural aesthetics with the Institute for Postnatural Studies, to recording wastelands with Sandra Jasper and developing speculative curricula engaging with overlooked forms of knowledge with Federico Pérez Villoro. As a collection, these contributions address the complex relations between humans, non-humans and their environment across time and space. DELUS is an annual publication that explores emerging themes, topics and methods from landscape and urban studies. Founded in 2022 by the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zurich, it brings academic knowledge to a broader audience and fosters exchange amongst designers, artists, scientists, scholars and students.

Front Cover Half Title Page Title Page A note from the editors Contents Salted Waters: Cooking, Land and Resistance Rivers, Sturgeons and Dragons Feminist Responses to the Prolonged Colonialities of Exploited Landscapes Melting Ecologies Speculative Ecologies: The Future of Urban Wastelands The Trap of Time: Protyping a Summer School Contributors Copyright Backmatter