Duarte Santo and Maria Goula 2025. Entangled openness. Revisiting Open Space through Landscape and Design Agency. Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture. 23 (1), pp. 74-89. https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-17990
| Title | Entangled openness. Revisiting Open Space through Landscape and Design Agency |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Duarte Santo and Maria Goula |
| Abstract | This article reclaims open space as a critical category for landscape architecture, challenging its reduction to a void to be programmed amid socioecological crisis. It theorises open space as a contested dynamic assemblage where ecological processes, colonial histories and more-than-human agencies intersect with design’s technocratic impulses. Drawing on relational spatiality, we argue for a pluriversal theoretical framework that is attentive to overlaps, tensions, and entanglements, interrogating how this construct supports design agency amid complexity and inequality. Using the Puente Hills Landfill as a case study and boundary object, we examine how openness manifests across temporal, material and social registers, predicating open space as a generative, open-ended system and performative terrain where ecological subjectivities, cultural inscriptions, and socio-political claims converge, demanding a radical reorientation of design agency and landscape architecture’s epistemic boundaries. |
| Journal | Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture |
| Journal citation | 23 (1), pp. 74-89 |
| ISSN | 1724-6768 |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publisher | Firenze University Press |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-17990 |
| Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-17990 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 28 Oct 2025 |