Aquaculture Landscapes gathers contemporary discourses, historical accounts, and evocative visual representations, and views this assemblage through the disciplinary lens of landscape architecture. In so doing, Aquaculture Landscapes aims to support and expand the roles that landscape architects play in convening the multispecies coalitions that coshape aquacultures for resilient coastlines, biodiverse urban ecologies, and a cohabited public realm.

“Ezban’s drawings, diagrams, and texts conspire to produce an exemplary portrayal of aquaculture landscapes, and the species they assemble, as extraordinary cultural constructs.”

—Charles Waldheim, John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, USA

Aquaculture Landscapes features essays, case studies, and representations that are organized into three parts—Situating, Surveying, and Depicting.

Part One

Situating Aquaculture Landscapes

Explores six contemporary projects in Asia, North America, and Europe by leading designers working at the nexus of aquaculture and urbanism. The essays in this section situate these landscape works relative to historical and contemporary aquaculture practices as well as contemporary landscape design and theory, and are arranged relative to the themes of resiliency, polyculture, and adaptive reuse.

Part Two

Surveying Aquaculture Landscapes

Presents fifteen aquaculture landscape case studies that describe a broad range of forms and practices of aquaculture located across five continents and ten countries. Each case study features key data, written descriptions, images, and a range of original analytical drawings. These drawings examine regional context, landscape form and pattern, multispecies interactions, and the performance of various topographic, vegetative, and hydrologic systems.

Part Three

Depicting Aquaculture Landscapes

Curates vivid contemporary drawings, models, maps, and paintings and places them into a long, transcultural tradition of aquaculture landscape representation. These depictions of real and imagined aquaculture landscapes reveal drawing and modeling as ongoing, fertile processes through which humans discover relationships to farmed fish.

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