Season Creep

the gradual changing in the length of the seasons, as demonstrated by earlier flowering of plants, thought by many to be caused by climate change.1

As seasons shift in response to climate change, the rhythms that once structured landscapes, bodies, and built environments begin to destabilize. Season Creep invites reflections on phenological change, ecological precarity, and the uneven, often imperceptible pace of irreversible transformation.

This issue brings together researchers and practitioners across architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and the arts to examine how seasonal knowledge—once grounded in cycles of cultivation, migration, and celebration—is being reconfigured across disciplines and geographies. Through writing, drawing, and documentation, contributors are invited to trace what it means to inhabit a world in which seasons no longer arrive as expected.

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DELUS began in 2021, initiated by former LUS doctoral fellows Sara Frikech and Johanna Just as a platform to engage with pressing questions in landscape and urban studies. Emerging from the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zürich, DELUS is a research-driven journal fostering dialogue across disciplines and institutions. Situated at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban studies, it gives visibility to new topics, concepts, and perspectives shaping contemporary discourse.

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Issue 2, Season Creep, is part of "DELUS: Dialogues on Changing Landscapes" (2026–2029), funded by SNSF.