Category: Publications
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Call for papers: Collective Landscape Futures symposium
Abstracts are invited for the Collective Landscape Futures symposium on 18-19th May 2023. A 2-day interdisciplinary symposium to be held online and at University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street, London SE10 9BD, UK Symposium rationale: Landscapes have always been defined through their collective relationships – between people and other living things, material objects and ephemeral entities,…
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Landscape Urbanism in France published by A+U
The latest issue of A+U Magazine explores the development of Landscape Urbanism in France. The issue includes a rich collection of articles by leading Landscape Architecture practices like Agence Ter as well as founding theorists like Charles Waldheim. Considering the significant role that French landscape practices continues to play around the world – and the…
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Contesting Public Spaces published
Contesting Public Spaces, a new book by Ed Wall, has been published. The book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities. It exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups, market…
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Launch of Testing-Ground 03
TESTING-GROUND, Issue 03 Youthhood, will be launched on Thursday 20 January [from 5:00pm] in London’s Stephen Lawrence Gallery. Join the contributors to discuss the articles that examine worlds through youthful eyes, make evident young ambitions, and aim to empower young people to design their cities and landscapes. Youthhood includes contributions by Ed Wall, Carmel Keren,…
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Landscape Citizenships: A Roundtable (Yale Environmental History)
Event time: Friday, October 29, 2021 – 1:30pm (ET) Location: Online via Zoom see map Please register here if you would like to attend. What would it mean to fully embrace the concept of landscape as a milieu of situated, everyday practices, encompassing the mutually constitutive relations between people and place? Might understanding key topics such as marginalization, indigeneity, globalization,…
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Climate Activism issue of the Journal of the British Academy published
Local climate emergency declarations, innovative approaches to public art and the collective experience of loss during the COVID-19 pandemic can transform attitudes towards the climate crisis, according to new research published in the open-access Journal of the British Academy. Contributors to the latest special issue of the Journal – on climate activism – draw on multi-disciplinary research from across…
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Youthhood – Call for Submissions
TESTING-GROUND invites submissions for the third issue, Youthhood. Young people are founding movements against injustices. Teenagers are lobbying their politicians to add climate change to the curriculum. Children are walking out on classes to participate in demonstrations and strikes. There is increasing concern that global elders have failed to address – and in many cases…
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URBAN DEVELOPMENT DIETS
March 18 (5-7pm) /// URBAN DEVELOPMENT DIETS is a roundtable to discuss practices of urban change that can advance rather than undermine social and environmental justice. Speakers include: Ben Campkin / Helena Rivera / Henry Day / Toya Peal / Will Sandy. Register here. COLLECTIVE LANDSCAPE FUTURES is a series of roundtable conversations – with students,…
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Collective landscape futures
During March, the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism programmes at University of Greenwich are organising a series of events to explore future landscape and urban practice. COLLECTIVE LANDSCAPE FUTURES will be three roundtable conversations – with students, graduates, tutors, and guests – discussing prevailing challenges in the design of landscapes and cities and how our collective…
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Landscape Citizenships
Landscape Citizenships, edited by Tim Waterman, Jane Wolff, and Ed Wall, is to be published by Routledge in June 2021. The edited book has been developed from the Landscape Citizenships symposium, a collaboration between University of Greenwich, University of Toronto, UCL, and NMBU Centre for Landscape Democracy, funded by the Landscape Research Group and University…
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