Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions is now on view now at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevanda. One of 14 exhibitions featured during the Museum‘s 2011 Art + Environment Conference, Landscape Futures introduces visitors to the visceral powers of architectural technology, spatial invention, and perceptual design. The interdisciplinary work by a diverse group of individuals aims to redefine boundaries between art, architecture, science, and design.

The exhibition boasts an extraordinary mix of new commissions and preexisting work—including a room-sized kinetic mechanism, speculative prototypes, large-scale prints, and portable devices—by Mark Smout & Laura Allen (Smout Allen), David Benjamin & Soo-in Yang (The Living), David Gissen, Mason White & Lola Sheppard (Lateral Office & InfraNet Lab), Chris Woebken & Kenichi Okada, and Liam Young. From philosophical toys to ironic provocations, the devices are not merely diagnostic but creative, deploying fiction as a means of exploring alternative futures. The speculative machines reveal the multitude of ways through which landscapes can be read, interpreted, augmented, and understood, while also proposing a larger question: what has yet to be measured—and what do those measurements tell us about ourselves?

Guest curated by Geoff Manaugh—the imaginative futurist behind BLDGBLOG, and a writer praised by novelist Bruce Sterling as the world‘s greatest living practitioner of "architecture fiction"—the exhibition is on view through February 12, 2012.