The World Landscape Architect World Blog plublished a series of articles on the latest AA Landscape Urbanism Graduates Thesis. You can find all, an introduction and 3 projects in the following links: Landscape architecture Insights | The next generation | Introduction Landscape architecture Insights | The next generation | Part 1 – New Coastal economies Landscape architecture Insights | The next generation | Part 2 – Urban Rewilding Landscape architecture Insights | The next generation | Part 3 – Our Future Woodlands Each part is a discussion between the AA Landscape Urbanism Graduating Student working group and Angus Bruce, HASSELL Head of Landscape Architecture. Thanks to Angus Bruce for supporting […]
24 May
18 Nov
How do we confront a world on fire? – Design and The Green New Deal on a Warming Planet
November 18, 2019
Series: Open Seminar – Plan the PlanetDate: Monday 18 November 2019Time: 18:30Venue: AA Lecture Hall Running time: 120 mins – Click HERE to check the full event in the AAschool You tube Channel – Given the climate and ecological emergency the world is facing, it is paramount to support a socially just re-structuration of the world we inhabit, intrinsically dependant on the health of the earth systems, and trigger, along the way, a radical transformation of the role designers can play in developing design proposals, mitigation strategies, advocacy initiatives and activism. One way to achieve this is by supporting a Green New Deal from those involved in designing landscapes (whether […]
09 May
Eric Rodenbeck on Data Visualization as a Creative Practice 15th May 2018
May 9, 2018
Eric Rodenbeck on Data Visualization as a Creative Practice at the Architectural Association 15th May 2018, 14:00 pm Landscape Urbanism Studio 4 Morwell Street. All welcome: It’s past time for those of us who do this work to realize that telling stories with data is not a subgenre of computer science, or of anything else for that matter, any more than movies are a subgenre of live theater or photography is a sub genre of painting. Computer science, on its own, has about as much to say about the medium of data visualization as photographic paper engineering has to say about Instagram. Computer science is the technical underpinnings of dataviz, sometimes. Dataviz is […]
28 Nov
TAKING CONTROL AND THE UK COAST by Fernanda Balata from NEF ( New Economics Foundation) 29th Nov 16
November 28, 2016
All Welcome to the second Landscape Urbanism Lecture of 2016-17 titled TAKING CONTROL AND THE UK COAST, details as follow: Title: TAKING CONTROL AND THE UK COAST Presenter: Fernanda Balata Series: Landscape Urbanism Open Lecture Date: 29th November 2016 Time: 12:00 Venue: 33 Bedford Square, First Floor Back Talk by Fernanda Balata, Senior Programme Lead, Coastal Economies, New Economics Foundation The New Economics Foundation is the UK’s only people-powered think tank, working to build a new economy where people really take control. Putting people in control means building their capabilities, and supporting them in taking ownership of their places, their local resources, and their working lives; helping […]
11 Dec
Projective Sandscapes is an AA Landscape Urbanism Design thesis
December 11, 2015
Projective Sandscapes is an AA Landscape Urbanism Design thesis by Elena Longhin, Chris Lo and Howe Chan which delves into questions related to ongoing desertification processes and remote landscape influences. The project attempts to negotiate and choreograph dunes formations as a way to re-sew preserved urban clusters and transforming their morphological conditions in landscape spatial qualities. This approach may be further applied to similar cases across Europe undergoing desertification proccess: http://issuu.com/aala…/…/aa_projectivesandscapes_aalandscape
15 Jan
07 Mar
Critical Cartographies Lecture by Teresa Stoppani 20th March 2014
March 7, 2014
Critical Cartographies Teresa Stoppani , 20th March 2014, Soft Room, 6 PM Architectural Association [M]apmaking conventions are based not only on a sensible view of the world but on themselves, on their own historical sense of what counts as a legitimate view of the world. As the geographer J. Wreford Watson writes, “The geography of the land is in the last resort the geography of the mind.” Catherine Ingraham, Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity, 1998. The use of the grid in mapmaking offers a rational instrument that is based on conventions in order to fix and to communicate information. At the same time the cartographic grid produces an intentional […]
04 Mar
On the Record – Lecture by Gabriela Garcia
March 4, 2014
Gabriela García de Cortázar On the Record Series: Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series Date: 6/3/2014 Time: 17:30:00 Venue: New Soft Room Catalogues, lists, inventories, indexes; atlases, models, maps, plans, diagrams, charts, graphs are all ways of recording what is out there, what cannot be seen with our insufficient vision, and what cannot be kept with our restricted memory. Maps are the preferred tool for recording things in space, and just as any other register, they act through selection, editions and naming – basically, description. This kind of linguistic capture necessarily encounters problems, and the talk will focus on three: issues of scope (what to capture, parts or wholes; what to describe, surfaces or structures), time […]