Tag: landscape
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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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Across the Estuarial Periphery exhibition opens
Exploring the urbanisation process of London’s rural-urban fringe in Tilbury and East Tilbury. What is periphery in the context of urbanisation? Tilbury sits at the intersection of the estuary, agricultural land, Green Belt, industrial zones, suburban settlements, and port development, forming a global city edge that carries a complexity exacerbated by the dynamic urbanisation process. ACROSS
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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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Collective Landscape Futures symposium
Register for the Collective Landscape Futures symposium on 18-19 May 2023 will explore the “collective” nature of landscapes. It will investigate the common, shared, and public endeavours that produce the world of which we are part.
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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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