DESIGN EARTH

In five geostories, The Planet After Geoengineering makes climate engineering and its controversies visible and public in a speculative planetary section that cuts from the deep underground to the surface, atmosphere, and into outer space. Each geostory— Petrified Carbon, Arctic Albedo, Sky River, Sulfur Storm, and Dust Cloud—portrays the Earth following the deployment of a specific technique and situates such promisory visions within a genealogy of climate-control projects ranging from nineteenth-century rainmaking machines to Cold War military plans. These cautionary tales for the Anthropocene unsettle geopolitics to present a new politics of the Earth that brings forth questions regarding which lifeforms are in need of being safeguarded, from what threat, by which actors and means, to which ends, and at which costs. The premise of this work is that the architectural project, as a narrative speculative practice, can galvanize such an essential shift toward public communication that explains the climate crisis as it anticipates other possible worlds.