“The hot button of climate change foregrounds the performance of designed landscapes in contributing—or not—to an expanded environmentalism of material and social change. Redevelopment projects employing landscape architects commonly perpetuate feminized representations of nature to spin utilitarian exploitation of a singular, objectified environment. This environmental sexploitation polarizes ‘the’ landscape as, alternately, a very beautiful or ugly outside Other. The design idiom hypernature re-presents otherness to negotiate different, more resilient, possibilities of change. Hypernature's exaggerated simulations of nature ideals stage aesthetic agencies of otherness comparable to drag's denaturalizing expansion of gender ideals. The hypernature/drag analogy applies Judith Butler's theorization of performativity to materializing performances that iteratively re-produce what we idealize as natural beauty. Like drag, hypernature demonstratively transfigures aestheticized fantasies behind utilitarian representations of nature, ironically negating exploitive negations of Others. Hypernature's provocative act of acting otherwise expands landscape architecture's conceptions of beauty in changing contexts of survival.”