Sam Elstub at the Design Museum
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by The Landscape
1w ago
How Does Skateboarding Shape Cities? is an event hosted at the Design Museum next week. A panel of skaters, academics, designers and makers including Iain Borden, Charlie Davis, Sam Elstub, Charles Myatt and Esther Sayers, will discuss skate spaces, communities and culture. Skateboarding is everywhere: in urban streets and plazas, DIY constructions, multi-story projects, pop up ramps and bowls in retail spaces, parks and the Olympic games. How are skateboarders influencing urban politics and social enterprise? How does the design of skate spaces facilitate intergenerational connections? The sp ..read more
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Claire Takacs and Giacomo Guzzon launch new book
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by The Landscape
2w ago
The Garden Museum is hosting photographer Claire Takacs and landscape architect Giacomo Guzzon, to celebrate their new book, ‘Visionary: Gardens and Landscapes for Our Future’. In the new book, Visionary: Gardens and Landscapes for Our Future, Claire Takacs and Giacomo Guzzon introduce stunning private and public gardens from around the world that have addressed the need to be both sustainable and climate-conscious – with outstanding results. Details of the event are here. +++++ Giacomo Guzzon is a landscape architect and expert in planting design who graduated from the MA Landscape Archi ..read more
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Sounding Futures
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by The Landscape
2w ago
Collective Landscape Futures presents Sounding Futures Wednesday 27 March, 2024  (6-8pm)   Stephen Lawrence Gallery, 10 Stockwell Street, London SE10 9BD, UK Listening may foster gestures of compassion and care, enabling surprising forms of mutuality and empathy.  This roundtable will open a speculative space for exploring sound as a vibrant matter, one that can contribute to emergent strategies. We invite you to engage with sound and listening as methodologies, as practices, and as epistemological devices. Through presentation, discussion, sharing and listening together, we ..read more
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New Coasts Exhibition Opens
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by The Landscape
1M ago
New Coasts exhibition of student work opens today. Students from Unit C, Masters of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at University of Greenwich, have curated an exhibition of their in-progress designs. Projects explore the coastal landscapes of Landguard Point, Felixstowe, and they question what is lost and gained as these landscapes go through designed and unplanned change.  New Coasts, Project Space, 10 Stockwell Street, SE10 9BD from 28 February to 6 March, 2024 Helena Rivera and Ed Wall have worked with students over the last three years in Unit C, developing techn ..read more
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Forest Futures
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by The Landscape
1M ago
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design will host a two-day academic conference alongside its new exhibition, Forest Futures. Planetary survival in the Anthropocene crucially depends on the stewardship of resilient forest ecosystems worldwide—at the scales of wilderness, planted forests, metropolitan tracts, and the urban forest canopy of cities and towns everywhere. The Fifth National Climate Assessment (US, 2023) repeats now familiar claims that healthy forests provide essential ecological, economic, and social benefits and services.   But our forests today face extreme ri ..read more
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Crises, Conflicts, Contradictions
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by The Landscape
1M ago
Crises, Conflicts, Contradictions: (re)thinking the meaning of public space in cities Online from 14 February to 06 March 2024 The upcoming edition of the Planning Theory Lecture Series (TU Berlin) addresses the constantly renewing negotiations of the meaning of public space in cities. In the context of the current social change, we want to take a critical look at multiple challenges that can sometimes have contradictory implications for the diverse dimensions of public space. For example, the coronavirus pandemic has contributed to social isolation through lockdowns and social distancing poli ..read more
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No More I Love You’s / School of Design Spring Lecture Series
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by The Landscape
2M ago
No More I Love You’s Design, Media, Landscape, and Architecture at the End of the World Thursday 18 January – Thursday 4 April 7pm-8.30pm University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street Lecture Theatre 004 Our post-covid worlds are saturated with political disenchantment, often accompanied by a weariness and an exhaustion at it all. And to little surprise; the world is on fire, with climate catastrophes, crippling financial crises, crumbling infrastructure, war after war and war, and mass migrations. There is a sense of language leaving us, of changes shifting outside of the words. In the lecture se ..read more
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A-Z of landscape
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by The Landscape
4M ago
We have composed an A-Z of landscape projects, to inspire the coming weekend. Reflecting on landscapes visited, studied, and wishing to see, this highly personal list reveals some of the shifting trends in designed landscapes across places, cultures, materials, technologies, and times. Asphalt Spot (by R&Sie) Brixton Passageway (by Resolve Collective) Cap de Creus (by EMF) Donegal Quay (by Camlins/Camlin Lonsdale) Eerie Street Plaza (by Stoss) Fresh Kills Park (by Field Operations) Graffiti Pier (by Studio Zwede) Hoenheim-Nord Terminus and Car Park (by Zaha Hadid Architects) Iceland Avala ..read more
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Pilgrimage to Girona
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by The Landscape
4M ago
In January, a pilgrimage will be led to visit the projects of Martí Franch Batllori, a former student at Greenwich and director of awarding winning landscape architecture practice EMF. Students from across the school at Greenwich will be welcomed by Martí, visiting ground-breaking projects, and hearing how they were designed. Martí graduated from the University of Greenwich in 1999 and, after working for firms like Topotek1 in Berlin, set up his own studio in Girona. EMF has been recognised as one of the most innovative contemporary landscape studios, with Cap de Creus winning the Ro ..read more
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Students shortlisted in Landscape Institute Awards
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by The Landscape
5M ago
Two students from the BA and MA Landscape Architecture programmes at University of Greenwich have been shortlisted for the 2023 Landscape Institute Awards. Congratulations Ruby and Ben, wonderful achievement ..read more
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