Taisuke L. Wakabayashi

E-Mail: twakaba2@illinois.edu

Taisuke L. Wakabayashi is a PhD student in Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research explores the role of modern and contemporary design thinking in the emergence of nuclear landscapes. Drawing on New Materialism, he examines these landscapes as sites of co-production and negotiation between humans and nuclear technology, shaped by military experiments, infrastructural projects, atomic disasters, and radioactive waste disposal. His doctoral thesis delineates four forms of nuclear landscapes in Japan and the U.S., theorizing how we have been, are, and will be forming relationships with nuclear matters, material agencies, and technological complexities.