Expanding Horizons Check the participation of AALU co-director Jose Alfredo Ramirez in this AA seminar HERE: Series: Global ForumsDate: Wednesday 22 April 2020Time: 18:00Venue: Global Forums Running time: 63 mins On the 50th anniversary of the Earth Day on April 22nd, the AA launches an open call for submissions of drawings that depict the earth today. At a time when the planet is united in the experience of combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, we are physically separated while digitally connected. How does this impact the way we visualise Earth as a whole? From the Cantino Planisphere to Buckminster Fuller’s dymaxion map to one of the oldest maps – the Bedolina Petroglyphs […]
22 Apr
AA Earth Day and AALU
April 22, 2020
20 Nov
Landscape as Territory Book Launch, 20th Nov 2019
November 20, 2019
Landscape as Territory Book was launched at @aaschool November 20th, collecting best @aalandscapeurbanism design thesis and contributions from Douglas Spencer, Stuart Elden, Mark Duffield, M. Perán & liam Mouritz. Supported by @grahamfoundation and published by @actar_publishers Buy the book at: https://aabookshop.net/?wpsc-product=landscape-as-territory
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 […]
10 Oct
Design Agency within Earth Systems/ 26th October 2018 @AAschool
October 10, 2018
Series: Conference Date: Friday 26 October 2018 Time: 10:00 Venue: AA Lecture Hall 8,000 meters above sea level exists what climbers call the ‘death zone’. This altitude marks the limit for human habitation, above which our species cannot survive. We thrive in the ‘life zone’ – the earth’s land surfaces and oceans, its geological layers beneath, the dynamic atmosphere above – all affected by gravitational and magnetic forces beyond. This living world is constantly being transformed by our social, economic and political interactions revealing our intricate dependencies on the the earth and its systems. Terms such as ‘Anthropocene’ and ‘Capitalocene’ have drawn attention to the role of political economy in transforming these earth systems […]
24 Jun
AALU Alumni meeting / Territorial Formats 23rd June 2018
June 24, 2018
The First AA Landscape Urbanism Alumni meeting happened last 23rd June 2018 with several AALU graduates presenting their professional work. Great to see how the AALU alumni develops their professional careers and we look forward to strengthening the links among alumni and the programme in the near future.
21 Mar
Emma McNally ‘mapping in the midst’ 22 March 2017 Architectural Association
March 21, 2017
Seminar: Mapping in the midst Location: 33 Bedford Square, First Floor Back time: 2 pm All welcome Emma McNally’s drawings suggest maps or charts of things as complex and various as seas, the night sky, military bases, computer circuit boards, data-flow, flight paths. They also evoke aerial photographs, radar screens and experimental musical scores. Yet though her drawings chime with both the real and the virtual world, they all come from the imagination. If they were charts, they could map a mindscape. McNally’s recent body of work ‘Choral Fields’ (exhibited at Hayward Gallery, London and Biennale of Sydney) were made in a studio by the river Thames at London’s West […]
28 Feb
Stephen Walter Lecture on Maps- 01March 2 pm Architectural Association
February 28, 2017
STEPHEN WALTER lecture – MAPS Architectural Association, 01 March, 33 First Floor Back, 2pm All welcome Stephen Walter: I will discuss the motivation, process and reasoning behind my making of maps and the way in which we all need to re-interpret our spiritual and physical relationship with Earth in order to survive. The maps, depicting both real and made up places, are a series of arrangements and constellations of natural, physical and artificial features. They are a tangle of words, symbols, graphic forms, concepts, histories, epithets and autobiographical references – where cultural residues inhabit certain locations. These in turn – make up a complex of hidden meanings, associations and wider […]
13 Jan
27th January is the deadline to apply to MArch & MSc degree in Landscape Urbanism at the AA
January 13, 2017
Interested to apply to AA Landscape Urbanism? Deadline to MArch & MSc degree in Landscape urbanism is next 27th January 2017. Do not miss this opportunity
05 Jan
AA Landscape Urbanism MArch Final presentation 9th january, AA 36 Rear Room 12-4 pm
January 5, 2017
The first ever AA Landscape Urbanism MArch students presentation will take place next 9th January in the AA Lecture Hall at 12pm-4pm The following project will be presented and all are welcomed: Cooperative Wetlands is an AA Landscape Urbanism project by Yan Sun MArch student with MSc Yanwen Wu and Conyue Wang . It develops a strategy for redirecting nutrient rich sediments in Vistula River towards the design of new wetland and productive landscapes managed by agricultural cooperatives. Dredging Artifice, is an AA landscape urbanism project by MArch student Kai Fan with MSc Students Shiqi Deng and Menglei Zhong. It develops an alternative approach to dredging and managing sediment in the […]
02 Mar
Kiruna 4-Ever, How to move a City? Monday 7th MARCH AA SOFT ROOM 2 PM
March 2, 2016
Kiruna 4-Ever, How to move a City? MONDAY 7th MARCH AA SOFT ROOM Presenters: Geoff Denton and Linda Thiel from White arkitekter AB Series: Landscape Urbanism Open Lecture Series Date: 7th March 2016 Time: 14:00 Venue: Soft room Abstract: Kiruna is an industrial town in the Arctic north of Sweden where the sun never sets in the height of summer and never rises in the depths of winter. A region with reindeer husbandry, snow, Sami people, and the Aurora Borealis overhead to further set the filmic scene. Kiruna, with 18,000 inhabitants, was created by the world’s largest underground iron ore mine, Kirunavaara, on the city’s western border. The […]