DICHOTOMY 25: SOIL
Soil is the foundation of the Earth which we all inhabit. We grow from it, prosper from it, build upon it, pollute it, and dichotomize it. Soil is an organic material providing a sustainable base for life. Yet, polarized as degrading and dirty. How is it that soil can unite nations yet divide people?
What power does it have in cultivating the built environment and defining its boundaries? This issue of Dichotomy considers soil as a response to the growth, prosperous, developable, polluted, and divided Earth that is the foundation of our built environment, as well as its relation to the discourse of architecture, urbanism, design, and the arts.
Contributors
Andreas Körner: UNEARTHED CAVERNOUS STRATA
Andrea Alberto Dutto: THE LOGIC OF DEPTH
Ashley Ball: EARTH STRUCTURES OF A PORTUGUESE FARM
Brian Kelly: SOIL / SILO
Ceara O'Leary: SHARED, OFFSITE AND GREEN
Eric Wong: A NEW CAPITAL: A CASE FOR BRITAIN
Galen Pardee & William Jamieson: ACTUARIAL TERRITORY
AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIE BARGMANN OF D.I.R.T. STUDIO
Gautam Palav: NEO-AGRARIANISM
Dana Matouk: SOIL OF DESTINY
Georgia Klefti: THE LINE
Manuel Garza: FAMILIAR TERRITORIES – INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURES
Nwabisa Madyibi: ROOTS OR ROUTES
Sadie Imae: THEATER OF DUST
Tyler Gaeth: TERRA FIRMA
Zbignew Oksiuta: NEW SOIL
Dan Pitera: UDM SACD NEWS
'The tradition of Dichotomy is to set a theme with a short synopsis, then letting each contributor have a free interpretation. 'This year's issue, Dichotomy 25: SOIL, is comprised of a large variety of subjects and narratives from unearthed caverns and artifacts, subterranean structures, soil recliming human intervention, and the United States' Government missile silos, to personal accounts of soil displacement from wars in the middle east, Detroit's stormwater infrastructure and post-industrial soil reconstruction, and soil's relationship to the global pandemic, COVID-19.
Team
Editor: Logan Flowers
Business Manager: Kayla DiSchiavo
Team: Nathalie Begin, Amanda Gatto, Maria Jose, Dallas Mahaney, Sara Mitrakovic, Bilqees Salie, Duncan Schildgen, John Turner
Faculty Advisors: Tadd Heidgerken, Noah Resnick