José Alfredo Ramírez has been invited to lecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture as part of the lecture series, Landscapes in Dialogue. José will lecture on Landscape Practices in the Capitalocene.

Whether you live in a city, small town, rural or agricultural area or on Indigenous land, today’s world landscapes have been shaped by the implementation of a system commonly known as policies. Policies con­figure landscapes, and define the way we organise our lives and our relations with nature. Policies ultimately organise how we produce the products we consume, the material we need for those products, and the labour we require to manage our relations with other humans and nonhumans alike.

Within landscape oriented design professions, policies de­fine the types of projects we develop, the way we get involved, the materials we specify, the steps we follow to build environments. Landscape Practices in the Capitalocene explores the landscape impact of speci­fic policies and calls for designers to acknowledge, understand and rethink how they are actively shaping the world we are living in today.

The lecture is open to the public and will be held on the 5 December, from 1–2pm GMT.

Further information can be found here.

Image: AA Groundlab Visualisation of the Birmingham EV (Electric Vehicles) Future Production. The image reimagines not only the fabrication of electric buses, rather than electric private cars, but also working conditions, such as training, union spaces and areas to rest for workers in the industry.