Making In A Landscape Of Making

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Cover makers hand: Altan R. Dervish

University of Greenwich School of Design Landscape Architecture 2020

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What is the Landscape of Making?

The Landscape of Making is an urban park alongside the new Canada Water Development by British Land and Townshend.

The 4.4 acre park is built using the tremendous amount of excavation material taken from the development. The Landscape of Making is unusual in that it is a production space. Using timber from trees removed by the development and clay refined form the soil, various types of kilns are used to make material that is feed back into the development.

The goal of the project is to

get the public involved in this process of making on the land, and encourage the expressive freedom of creating things in this adventure playground.

To sustain this process, tree farms and coppicing techniques are used to harvest timber as a material and as a fuel, while some trees remain protected to help nurture the ecology.

Who is this manual for?

This manual is made for the Generators between the ages of 7 and 15, from and around the new Canada Water Development.

Generators are part of Global Generation, an educational charity, which works together with children and young people, to create healthy, integrated and environmentally responsible communities.

Using land-based activities, they support building community between each other and the natural world, while helping co-create the public realm. Most known by their involvement in the moveable Skip Garden in King’s Cross.

What is the manual for?

This manual is to guide young ‘Generators’ through the Landscape of Making with instructions on working on the land. It will go through the processes of: harvesting different types of wood to be stored and seasoned in the workshop, working the extractor to refine clay from dirt, and help design, build and fire a kiln to turn the clay into ceramics.

Through out the manual there are pages to add new ideas and contribute. Also some pages are to be coloured in, to help engage readers with the activities described in the images.

What is a D.E.D.E.?

Inspired by all the hardworking elders making a loving and enjoyable space for their grandchildren in the back garden. D.E.D.E. stands

for: dedicated, education and development, elder. It is a position held in the park by trusted members of the community to help facilitate a safe and educational environment for the young ‘Generators’. They can be recognisable by the hand print symbol on their back.

A D.E.D.E. would have responsibility over the workshop, ecology and act as the guardians of the park; one should always be present during and timber harvesting or fire lighting process.

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The Landscape of Making

Harvesting Poplar

Firing a Kiln

Harvesting Bamboo

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Refining Soil

Coppicing Eucalyptus Gathering Clay

Building a Kiln

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The process of safely collecting timber to season, for future use as fuel or building material.

You will need...

D.E.D.E.* Duck Tape Gloves Hand Axe Hard Hat Loppers Pruning Shears Rope Saw String Tree Survey (In Manual p12-13) *Dedicated, educational development, elder

Pruning Shears

Hard Hat

Saw Hand Axe

Duck Tape

Rope

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String

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Tree Survey D.E.D.E.

On the map below, you will mark all the trees you find under the following categories: X Poplar mark with an ‘X’ and write the girth of the trunk O Bamboo mark cluster with bubble Eucalyptus mark with an ‘0’ and write the number of shoots O Other these are trees that we do not harvest, when you find a new tree you get to name it!

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Populus nigra Singe steam Harvest cycle 4 years

Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. spectabilis Single steam Harvest when needed

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Eucalyptus dalrympleana Multi steam coppice Harvest cycle 4 years

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Colour Me In !!!

Bowline Knot

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felling notch

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bridge

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clean

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tie

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coppice

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elbow length

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node cut

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clean

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bundle

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The workshop was inspired by the great work at The Shed in Stave Hill Park

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Processing soil into clay for making things and firing in a kiln.

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Blanket Boots Bucket Hard Hat Head Torch Shovel Waterproof Overalls

Head Torch

Shovel

Hard Hat

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Blanket Waterproof Overalls

Bucket

Boots

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clockwise = up anticlockwise = down

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soil

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hang

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collect

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PRINCIPLE 1: Work on a clean, smooth surface.

PRINCIPLE 2: Keep hands moist.

PRINCIPLE 3: Use minimal amount of water.

PRINCIPLE 4: When you are done, wait a few weeks to dry properly.

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Constructing a kiln for firing greenware into ceramics, and use fire as a tool for making.

You will need...

Bucket Chisel Gloves Mallet Shovel String Trowel Tub

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Tub

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Select a location that 1 ... won’t cause discomfort to people downwind.

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2,5m ... can support a 2,5m clearing in front of the fire.

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... doesn’t obscure the chimney smoke.

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4 ... is in rage of an emergency water tank.

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Clay bricks, tiles and funnels can be found pre-made inside the bottleneck kilns!

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dig foundation

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split

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set frame

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10 soft sand

cement

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mix wash

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thumb thickness

chimney

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chamber firebox

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lay bricks

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fit chimney & bury

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PRINCIPLE 1: Longer kilns are more efficient than taller ones.

PRINCIPLE 2: The chamber shape should follow heat direction and allow flame to flow.

PRINCIPLE 3: Fire box (combustion area) should be 10 times greater than the horizontal section of the chimney.

PRINCIPLE 4: Add 3ft to the chimney length for each 1ft of kiln hight, and 1ft for each 3ft kiln length.

PRINCIPLE 5: Chimney diameter should be onefourth of the chamber diameter.

PRINCIPLE 6: If smoke is escaping from the front, make the chimney taller.

Name of your kiln:

Description of kiln:

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Learning how stock a kiln, then successfully light a fire and feed it to make ceramics.

You will need...

Bucket D.E.D.E.* Flint and Steel Hand Axe Insulation Gloves *Dedicated, educational development, elder

Flint and Steel

Hand Axe

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D.E.D.E. Insulation Gloves

Bucket

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dry grass

ignition

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teepee fire lay

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add kindling

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sealing the firebox

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the magic...

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the experience together!

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Bringing people together.

An important consideration of this process was how the new population pressure of the Canada Water Development would effect existing residence, and how to strengthen the feeling of community. A big part of this is providing a space for young people to work and play together, becoming the glue that binds the future of Canada Water.

A new home for Global Generation.

During the construction period of the Canada Water Development, Global

Generation was temporarily given a space in the Paper Factory by the developers to promote community relations, but their future was uncertain.

Due to the heavy influence of Global Generation on this project, the park offers facilities and outdoor spaces designed for their needs, establishing a new home for the community building organisation, and a place to share their magic.

What it is to be a changing landscape.

The nature of the park is to be open forum, a community garden of ideas that take shape on the land. There is always a

dialogue between the parks public spaces and the activity of people within those spaces both subtle and direct.

The freedom to mark the land opens new possibilities for public discourse and expression, the Landscape of Making is a landscape as a process.

The future of sustainable urban parks.

As more and more value is placed in environmentalism and sustainable design, developers are investigating better ways to meet the new environmental challenges. This park proposes a way to recycle the waste materials of urban development, valuing the local resources of the site.

The landscape establishes a relationship with the architecture, processing these materials produced by redevelopment, then feeding it back in as a useful resource, just like how the Generators recycle old newspaper into solid bricks.

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