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 […]

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