Category: Reblogged
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African Landscape Architectures Conference
The African Landscape Architectures conference, organised by Gareth Doherty at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent. This two-day hybrid event highlights the transformative potential of decolonizing design to address social injustices and prepare African cities for the impacts of climate change. Speakers will
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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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Play what you can: Ruby Allison reviews Assemble’s latest exhibition
Ruby Allison, a Landscape Architecture student from University of Greenwich, visited the Nottingham Contemporary for recessed.space to review of Assemble’s latest exhibition . Read the full article on recessed.space here. recessed.space is edited by Will Jennings, a London based writer, visual artist, and educator interested in cities, architecture, and culture. [Image: Assemble and Schools of Tomorrow: The Place
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Urban Forests, Forest Urbanisms & Global Warming
Urban Forests, Forest Urbanisms & Global Warming call for papers
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Conversations with Olmsted: Reimagining Public Spaces
Highlighting the collaboration of Frederick Law Olmsted, architect Henry Hobson Richardson, and horticulturist Charles Sprague Sargent January 25, 2022 on Zoom 2022 is here— and so is the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted! Olmsted 200 invites you to ring in the Year of Olmsted by attending the fifth webinar in our Conversations
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Landscape Citizenships event
Join Tim Waterman (UCL), Jane Wolff (University of Toronto) and Ed Wall (University of Greenwich) on 30 November 2021, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm (UK time), for a discussion their latest book, Landscape Citizenships. Register here. The book Landscape Citizenships, edited by Tim Waterman, Jane Wolff, and Ed Wall, challenges assumptions that landscape and citizenship belong in different intellectual arenas. Its fourteen
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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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ECLAS Landscape Architecture Conference Opens Today
ECLAS Online Conference, September 13-15, 2021 So, landscape architect, eighteenth months in, what have you learned about our shared emergency? It is bigger than this pandemic, and the one to follow.It is bigger than me, than you, than our children.It is bigger than last week’s flood and next week’s fire.It is bigger than any place,
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Monsoon Assemblages at the 2021 Venice Biennale
The Venice Architecture Biennale has published a sneak peek of the Monsoon Assemblages (MONASS) and Office of Experiments’ (OoE) installation at the biennale, which is taking place between May and November 2021. MONASS and OoE’s installation, titled ‘Between the Dragon Fly and the Barometer’, examines the Indian Ocean monsoon from the perspective of the Globe Skimmer dragonfly
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