With a combination of essays, memoirs, guided imagery, and speculative story-telling, this book reenacts Roadside Picnic, a sci-fi story addressing the problem of humanity’s contact with another intelligence through the environmental effects and wreckage left behind by the visitors. The bewildering nature of worldly Roadside Picnics pushes human and non-human beings across the planet to a similar situation. In the face of that shared condition, the book Roadside Picnics highlights the ways in which architecture and the built environment participate in and condition both our encounters with the unthinkable—How do we face trouble?—as well as the futures that are possible in the unintended landscapes of the Anthropocene—How do we stay with the trouble?
Title: Roadside Picnics. Encounters with the uncanny.
Editors: Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Alkistis Thomidou
Contributions by: Céline Baumann, Ana María Durán Calisto, Julian Charrière, Dehlia Hannah, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Alkistis Thomidou, and a foreword by Lucia Pietroiusti.
Design: Numa Merino Studio
Languague: English
Cover: Softcover
Date: Spring 2022
Size: 11 x 18 cm
ISBN: 978-84-124942-2-8
Publisher: dpr-barcelona