![]() In a strategic subversion of the media aura of heritage, DESIGN EARTH casts ten World Heritage sites as narrative figures to visualize pervasive climate risks-rising sea levels, extinction, droughts, air pollution, melting glaciers, material vulnerability, unchecked tourism, and the massive displacement of communities and cultural artifacts-all while situating the present emergency within the wreckages of other ends of world, replete with the salvages of extractivism, racism, and settler colonialism. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites-from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands-have garnered empathetic media attention in a landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis. Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy / DESIGN EARTHĬlimate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. ![]() Actar D also co-publishes and distributes books internationally from eVolo and from renowned schools of architecture including Harvard University GSD, Yale School of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell, and AA London. ![]() In addition to its own publications, Actar Distribution, “Actar D” represents these premier architecture publishers to the book trade in the Americas: AADR, Applied Research + Design, DOM Publishers, and ORO Editions. Through urbanNext, Actar is producing new tools for its global dissemination with new impulses, new proposals, and new goals to expand architecture publishing. Since 2015, Actar’s new digital platform has shaped and expanded architecture and design practices to rethink cities. Actar is focused on the works and research of established and emerging practitioners, professors, thinkers, and innovation centers. Actar Publishers is committed to investigating the culture of the architectural, urbanism and landscape disciplines through innovative design, theory, criticism and pedagogy.
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