On Architecture and Greenwashing

The pilot issue of the new annual publication DELUS offersa range of diverse insights into landscape and urban questions.Founded in 2022 by the Institute for Landscape andUrban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zurich, it introduces new methodsto unpack multiple worlds and narrate manifold stories.
The contributions range from unraveling histories of land-body relations through recipes with Luiza Prado de O.Martins, following living fossils and their mythical counterpartswith Christina Gruber, working with communitiesto examine extractive environments with Karin Reisinger,exploring postnatural aesthetics with the Institute forPostnatural Studies, to recording wastelands with SandraJasper and developing speculative curricula engagingwith overlooked forms of knowledge alongside FedericoPérez Villoro. As a collection, these contributions addressthe complex relations between humans, non-humans andtheir environment across time and space.

RIOT-Research and Innovation On Territory-is a laboratory engaged in pedagogy and research within the Institute of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), lead by architect and urban designer CHARLOTTE MALTERRE-BARTHES. Believing that the construction sector and design disciplines must pivot and wholeheartedly engage in the current social and climatic urgencies by rewiring themselves to face and repair the harm, RIOT utilizes tactics and strategies to decarbonize, decolonize, and depatriarchalize space production-by design.