landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk
Project UK Based on the premise that architects and designers should play a role as decision-makers in how the world is shaped, the programme will work in the UK to design a collective project for the archipelago in partnership with the British Geological Survey and the New Economic Foundation. The UK’s landscape and cities reflect the disorienting conditions of the contemporary world. Political uncertainty is part of daily life, whether inside a European framework or outside it, and socio-economic structures directly affect the built and natural environment. What role can the landscape urbanist play? We will seek to offer alternatives for navigating these possible futures by: – Exploring cartographic practices with the capacity to influence the public sphere and decision-making processes, such as interactive and participatory maps built by local people with data gathered on-site. – Revisiting concepts such as ‘commons’ through the lens of design and the implications of these ideas within design frameworks and management of shared resources. – Implementing the latest technologies to simulate the behaviour of cities, landscapes and territories. – Understanding space from a cultural perspective by proposing new spatial configurations of public space that reflect twenty-first century challenges.
MSc 12 months MArch 16 months
Directors Alfredo Ramirez Eduardo Rico
Seminar Tutors Douglas Spencer Tom Smith
Design Tutor Clara Oloriz Sanjuan
Technical Tutors Giancarlo Torpiano Gustavo Romanillos
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Landscape Urbanism explores the emergence of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis. The programme operates within contemporary conditions to understand urban environments not as discrete independent collections of objects, but as interconnected landscapes with far-reaching implications both for the environment – ie, climate change, energy debates and widespread pollution – and for social and political spheres. The course combines material explorations of landscape evolution (facilitated by digital simulations) with the development of critical perspectives and studio work. It is aimed at professionals – architects, landscape architects, engineers, urban planners and geographers – who are engaged with territorial disciplines.
Francisca Salinas, Daniella Dibos Tramontana – cartography depicting the fluctuating conditions of the UK archipelago together with potential locations of sand-scaping projects by the Crown Estate and the New Blue Deal proposals by the New Economic Foundation, 2016–17
Landscape Urbanism