Tag: Landscape programs
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Landscape Architect awarded Design Innovator of 2013
Landscape Architect Thomas Woltz is awarded Wall Street Journal Magazine’s Design Innovator of the Year. Read all about it.
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Royal Docks Ideas competition
The Landscape Institute and Ecobuild, with support from the Mayor of London and London Borough of Newham, have launched ‘The Royal Docks Ideas Competition’ to find innovative design proposals that would transform the Royal Docks into a multi-functional ‘liveable’ space. Comprising three docks in East London – Royal Albert Dock, Royal Victoria Dock and King
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New Masters programme in Advanced Landscape and Urbanism
The University of Greenwich have launched a new Masters programme in Advanced Landscape and Urbanism. The programme encourages students to develop advanced and speculative approaches to the design of cities, landscape and territories. It promotes high design values and the integration of new and innovative technologies to address the challenges facing contemporary cities, such as: urban
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Imaginary Cartographies
ELN 52.1 Spring/Summer 2014 “Imaginary Cartographies” Call for Papers: ELN Special Issue, “Imaginary Cartographies.” In recent decades the map has emerged as a key site of cultural and imaginative reworking, and yet the history of such symbolic mediations between humans and their spatial environment is also ancient and complex. Volume 52.1 of ELN (Spring/Summer 2014)
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Design Your Future – Landscape and Architecture
The team from University of Greenwich will be presenting Future Cities / Future Landscapes at the UCAS Design Your Future event next week. Come join us at London’s Olympia on 14th and 15th November: https://www.ucasevents.com/UCAS/media/uploaded/EVUCAS/event_1117/DYF_2013_Visitor_Guide_WEB.pdf
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New Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape
Professor Neil Spiller has been appointed to the Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape. In this role he will continue to work with the Architecture and Landscape team to build the profile of Architecture and Landscape at Greenwich, and its move to the new Stockwell Street building. He will act as senior strategic lead in
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Maeder-York Family Fellowship Landscape Studies 2014
The biennial Maeder-York Family Fellowship in Landscape Studies recognizes an emerging designer whose work articulates the potential for landscape as a medium of design in the public realm. The residential Fellowship is awarded through a juried international portfolio competition and builds upon the Gardner’s Artist-in-Residence program that has fostered creativity and collaboration in the arts
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Job of the week
Education and Training Officer Responsible to: Head of Education and Membership Ultimate responsibility to: Chief Executive Job Purpose To organise and manage the LI’s CPD events To develop the LI’s CPD / training offer To organise and manage the LI’s Chartership examinations To manage the ‘Pathway to Chartership’ online process and other designated routes to
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Designing, farming and cooking
An urban farm in South Africa is incorporating aquaponic farming systems to raise fish and vegetables that are then served in the restaurant. The Coolist reports on this initiative that is situated on the V&A Waterfrontin Cape Town, South Africa: http://www.thecoolist.com/moyo-waterfront-restaurant-and-urban-farm/
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Rebuild by Design – proposals released
This is a critical moment for the Rebuild by Design project as we share the teams’ thoughtful and unique visions to make the NY/NJ region more resilient. These proposals follow three months of in-depth analysis and public outreach, including both one-on-one conversations with people living in affected areas and robust guided conversations with Design Teams and
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