Geographies of trash / Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy ; graphic design Thumb/Luke Bulman with Camille Sacha Salvador original design schema by Hans Papke ; copyeditor Stephanie Tuerk.

By: Ghosn, Rania [author.]Contributor(s): Jazairy, El Hadi [author.] | Tuerk, Stephanie [editor.] | Bulman, Luke [graphic designer.] | Salvador, Sacha Camille [graphic designer.] | Papke, Hans [graphic designer.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: eng Publisher: New York : Barcelona : Actar Publishers, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 143 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781940291642 (paperback)Subject(s): Refuse and refuse disposal | Refuse and refuse disposal -- MichiganLOC classification: HD4482 .G46 2015Subject: In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of new aesthetics and politics of urbanism. Honored with a 2014 ACSA Faculty Design Award, the book charts the geographies of trash in Michigan across scales to propose five speculative projects that bring to visibility disciplinary controversies on the relations of technology, space and politics.

In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of new aesthetics and politics of urbanism. Honored with a 2014 ACSA Faculty Design Award, the book charts the geographies of trash in Michigan across scales to propose five speculative projects that bring to visibility disciplinary controversies on the relations of technology, space and politics.