Green New Deal Landscapes

Jose Alfredo Ramirez is an architect co-founder and director of Groundlab (recently placed as a design laboratory within the AA) and Co-Director of the Landscape Urbanism MArch/MSc Graduate Programme at the Architectural Association. He studied Architecture with honours in Mexico City and a Landscape Urbanism MA at the Architectural Association. Over the course of his AA Landscape Urbanism directorship, the programme has been transformed from a master in arts into two degrees: masters in science and in architecture, adding a number of research areas and degrees of resolution. In terms of research areas, the programme has expanded into contemporary cartographic practices (projective, remote sensing and participatory cartographies), digital and physical simulations of landscape dynamics (numerical models in riverine, arid and coastal landscapes), and European landscape policies and its impact in the built environment (cities, metropolitan, areas and productive landscapes). The master has also delved into the concept of territory to understand the social, legal, economic, and political aspects of Landscape Urbanism as a discipline, proposing unique design thesis that deal with large territorial scales through to architectural and landscape proposals. At Groundlab, At Groundlab, he leads research design projects on how the built environment impacts climate change, landscape design and urbanisation in the global south and has led the development of projects at the junction of architecture, landscape and urbanism in a variety of contexts such as Argentina, Chile, China, Mexico, Spain, Russia, Chile, UK among others. He has experience working in large-scale urban projects such as the redevelopment of a 12km distance of Santiago de Chile's main avenue, Alameda/Providencia into an integral transport and urban corridor, envisioning how a Green New Deal will impact in Glasgow UK. Alfredo has published and lectured worldwide on landscape urbanism as well as the work of Groundlab.Jose Alfredo is a dual Mexican and British citizen and has published several articles in English and Spanish, including the book Critical Territories as well as given lectures on the topic of Landscape Urbanism and the work of Groundlab worldwide.

About the Guest-Editor 5 Jose Alfredo Ramirez Introduction 6 Designing Landscapes How Policies Shape the World Jose Alfredo Ramirez Visualising a 12 Transformative Space that Puts People and Climate First Miriam Brett Crises and 20 Contestations The Promise and Peril of Designing a Green New Deal Billy Fleming 'Raising the Stakes 28 for Landscape' in the Climate Crisis Clara Oloriz Sanjuan Just Transition 36 Rewiring Carbon-Pollutant Landscapes and Labour into a Community Forestry Framework Elena Luciano Suastegui, Rafael Martinez Caldera and Yasmina Yehia Dynamic Domains of 44 Antarctica A Design Model of Global Commons in Sync with Planetary Metabolism Daniel Kiss and Swadheet Chaturvedi Take Back the Land 54 Godofredo Enes Pereira, Christina Leigh Geros and Jon Goodbun Making Space for 62 Green Work Julian Siravo Taking Apart 70 Buildings and Systems In Converstaion with Mae Bowley of Re:Purpose Savannah Jane Mah Hutton and Alison Creba The Red Deal 78 Decolonising Climate Action Manuel Shvartzberg Carrio and Danika Cooper Design Perspectives 86 from the Global South The Case of Mexico Jose Alfredo Ramirez Country-Led 96 Approaches in Land Management and Design Liam Mouritz and Alex Breedon Monsoonal Solidarity 104 A Global Approach to Climate Justice Lindsay Bremner Town, Country and Wilderness 112 Planning the Half-Earth Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass and Filip Mesko Towards the Abolition of the Hinterlands 120 Kai Heron and Alex Heffron From Another Perspective 128 A Rapturous Delight in the Natural World Laurie Chetwood Neil Spiller