Tag: Greenwich
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Sam Elstub at the Design Museum
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…
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Claire Takacs and Giacomo Guzzon launch new book
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…
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Sounding Futures
Collective Landscape Futures presents Sounding Futures 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,…
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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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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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Students shortlisted in Landscape Institute Awards
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!
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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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Greenwich Landscape student wins Architects for Health award
Landscape Architecture student, Cleo Lewington, received the Judges Prize at the Architects for Health (AfH) awards on Thursday 6th July. The Architects for Health Student Design Awards is an annual design competition that aims to challenge students of architecture and design to explore innovative and compassionate design for health and social care settings. As well…
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