Planet Hope
Javier Arpa Fernández (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
The article closes the two-year Domus cycle of Emerging Territories and Urgent Territories as a global cartography of spatial emergency. Across 22 articles, it traced housing precarity, environmental collapse, displacement, inequality and extractive damage from Rosario to Riyadh, Tashkent, Lusail and the Aral Sea. The text argues that design is implicated in these crises, through action, absence or alternative proposals. Yet it ends with disciplined hope: architects, researchers and educators must name emergencies, make them visible, and use design to construct political narratives, collective strategies and possible ways out of ecological, social and territorial breakdown worldwide, with care, urgently.
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