Category: Events
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New Coasts Exhibition Opens
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…
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Forest Futures
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…
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Crises, Conflicts, Contradictions
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…
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No More I Love You’s / School of Design Spring Lecture Series
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;…
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Field Office invites applications for India workshop
The Field Office invites applications to the second workshop, in Ahmedabad, India. The workshop, that will be in March 2024, explores new site-specific practices and is open to university design studios and young/emerging individual professionals / practices. See more here. Places are limited. Apply here by January 7, 2024.
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Pilgrimage to Girona
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…
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Lecture /// Technical Lands: A Critical Primer
Technical Lands: A Critical Primer Tuesday 17 October 18:00 – 19:30 Lecture Theatre, 11_0004 Speakers Charles Waldheim, Harvard University Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Temple University Abstract Technical lands are spaces united by their “exceptional” status—their remote location, delimited boundary, secured accessibility, and hyper-vigilant management. Designating land as “technical” is thus a political act. Doing so entails dividing,…
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Call for Participants: Field Office Workshop
Field Office Workshop Location: Sayes Court, London Date: 13-14 October 2023 Summary: Field Office workshops are a collaboration for founding and supporting new site-specific practices. The workshops are for university design studios and emerging professional studios to explore new site-specific practices. Students and young practitioners, including architects, artists, ecologists, geographers, landscape architects, anthropologists, and urban designers, will…
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School of Design Show 2023 ::: 15 June ::: University of Greenwich
You are invited to the private view of the Landscape Architecture and Urban Design Students on 15 June at the University of Greenwich, School of Design
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Collective Landscape Futures symposium
Register for the Collective Landscape Futures symposium on 18-19 May 2023 will explore the “collective” nature of landscapes. It will investigate the common, shared, and public endeavours that produce the world of which we are part.
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