Vol. 22 No. 2 (2024): On diversity and differences
Complessità. Riconoscere e favorire le diversità / Complexity. Acknowledging and promoting the diversity

The Timespace of Queer Ecology

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  • Tim Waterman
Tim Waterman
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-17912

Published 2025-07-02

Keywords

  • Queer ecology,
  • Timespace,
  • Landscape relations,
  • Futurity

How to Cite

Waterman, T. (2025). The Timespace of Queer Ecology. Ri-Vista. Research for Landscape Architecture, 22(2), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-17912

Copyright (c) 2025 Tim Waterman

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Abstract

Queerness is a human construct, fitted to human lives and timespaces, whereas the timespaces of ecologies are radically di!erent, often evolving over millions of years. Queerness also does not apply readily to animal sexualities, which are polymorphous, but which cannot be judged or pigeonholed as queer. This short essay seeks to reconcile the two and clarify the usefulness of the term ‘queer ecology’ by as referring to habitable landscapes and queer and/or trans landscape relations. These relations are seen as nonlinear and intransitive, and thus their orientations also describe a queer re-lation to the future.

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