Tag: landscape
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Making Possible symposium
Title: Making Possible Date and time: Thursday 16 May, 2024 (10:00 – 17:00) Location: University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street, Lecture theatre 11_0004 Speakers: Anushka Athique (Spatial and Digital Ecologies, University of Greenwich), Elisa Cattaneo (Domus Academy / Politecnico di Milano), Kate Davies (Unknown Fields / Architectural Association), Stephen Kennedy (Sound and Image, University of Greenwich), Maria…
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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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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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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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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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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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