Increasingly knotty social and environmental challenges, and more sophisticated and powerful digital tools, are putting pressure on traditional landscape architecture practice. In the face of these challenges, this edition of the journal celebrates landscape architecture’s limitations, as a counterintuitive way of both understanding and expanding its potential.

Contributors include renowned landscape architect Teresa Moller, who discusses the limits she has experienced in her professional career, and Mike Hewson, who delves into how the limits of construction standards affected his design of Melbourne’s ‘risky’ new playground, ‘Rocks on Wheels’, among many others.