In Mexico City, below layers of asphalt and steel, lie the remnants of a vast lake, drained of its water, now desiccated. El Lago de Texcoco. A small, dry portion of the lake remains, constantly trying to rehydrate. Lakes are not something we consider living yet it acts with intention, the land responds to its conditions as though alive. In our wake of control and abuse others have come to inhabit this dry lakebed, making it their own, in someways helping the lake to regain it’s water and in others cleaning the messes we’ve left. Similair scenes have risen around the world begging the question: Have we forgotten what our role in the world is? Today, as we work towards sustainability we must ask ourselves what sustainable really means? This project doesn’t seek to provide a definitive answer but present ideas on how ruderal landscapes - home to life seen as undesirable - holds important knowledge on how we might imagine novel, sustainable futures. By learning to work with more-than-humans and considering natural systems as living beings we can begin to re-imagine what sustainable futures might look like though a hybrid lens. Using care, connection, and co-existence we can start to reframe our role in the world not as superiors but as co-constituents.
Diego Lozano (Thu,) studied this question.