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Operational vs. Logistical

The Bureau of Operational Landscapes explores overlooked spaces through photography, tours, and site-based encounters to help you read the land beyond its official story.

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Founded in 2024, the Bureau of Operational Landscapes is a non-disciplinarian initiative exploring industrial and infrastructural spaces through photography and beyond. With no fixed membership or permanent address, the Bureau is shaped by a rotating cast of collaborators, united by a shared commitment to remaking how landscapes are seen, experienced, and understood by the public.

Operational landscapes are vast, planetary-scale terrains reshaped for industrial activity—including agriculture, mining, energy, manufacturing, and waste processing. These landscapes are capital-intensive, technologically dense, and built to sustain large-scale industrial processes.

Logistical landscapes are a subset of the operational, concerned not with producing goods, but moving, storing, and distributing them—ports, railways, warehouses, and distribution hubs. If operational landscapes organize and sustain large-scale industrial systems, logistical landscapes ensure their circulation.

The Bureau of Operational Landscapes investigates these interwoven systems, beginning with Mission One: Park Maasvlakte, which focuses on the logistical landscape of the Port of Rotterdam—where logistics transforms space, visibility, and experience.

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