CONTENT AGENDA - TERRITORY AS DESIGN PRAXIS p.4-5 WHAT IS AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM p.6-7 TERRITORY OF ENGAGEMENT p.10-11 APPLICATIONS p.8-9 PROGRAM CONTENT p.12-13 FIELD WORKSHOPS p.14-15 EXHIBITIONS p.16-17 PUBLICATIONS & READING LIST p.18-19 RESEARCH PROJECTS Aeolian Sand Odyssey p.20-21 Coastal Futures p.22-23 The Riparian Land-Shaping Machine p.24-25 Flooding Mechanisms p. 26-27 Littoral Negotiations p. 28-29 Projective Sandscapes p. 30-31 Forver Aur p.32-33 Shifting Arctic Boundaries p.34-35 Reclaiming Agrarian Sandscapes p.36-37 Fish Match p.38-39 CREDITS p.40-43
AGENDA Territory as Design Praxis
Landscape Urbanism at the Architectural Association explores the emergence of ‘territory’ as a field of design praxis. Through this lense the programme operates within contemporary conditions whereby urban environments are understood not as discrete independent collections of objects but rather as interconnected and related landscapes with far reaching implications at local and global scales. Their implications are best reflected in current environmental concerns such as climate change, energy crisis and widespread pollution but less apparent in their social and political implications, currently being disguised by ecological and sustainable design driven agendas for the ‘urbanised world’. The production of Treaties (i.e. European Landscape Convention), Networks (Delta-Net), governmental plans (Room for the river Netherlands) and other local policies and agreements with potential impact on specific geographies is symptomatic of the demands for implementation of synchronized responses and projects at the scale of territory. However, they have rarely been seen as a space for research-led projects by design practices, given their potential impact on the production and/or reconfiguration of their space. Territory, understood in Elden’s terms as a ‘political technology’, has the capacity to involve designers in complex processes, - social, political, economic - that are the engines - historically, geographically, conceptually - behind these contemporary conditions, but most importantly it allows them to intervene in those realities in alternative ways via the
production and development of innovative yet critical design projects of territories. Thinking practice through the concept of territory, the agency of the designer can be extended beyond its current disciplinary confinements: those of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture, engineering, etc. as well as those of the various (un)-disciplinary re-alignments and hybrids in which these are currently configured. In the process, geographic knowledge and practices, such as cartography and geomorphology, are reappropriated and mobilised as the means to ask and respond to these fundamental questions. In doing so, the programme explores the types of project, forms of documentation, theories, technologies and techniques required to rethink and redefine the temporal production of territorial spaces through the praxis of design. It engages critically with a range of social and material formations in given territories, and with the conflicts that resonate at geographical scales of the local, the regional and the continental.
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Projective Sandscapes - Atlas 2014/15 - Elena Longhin, Chris Lo and Chan Howe
What is AA Landscape Urbanism?
The AA Landscape Urbanism (AALU) model is distinctive. Some have envisaged Landscape Urbanism as a means to decamp the depopulated western post-industrial city; to use landscape as the medium through which the urban can be reprogrammed for its post-fordist fate. Others have adopted a critical regionalist position in which landscape is mobilised in the conservation of site and tradition against the encroachments of globalisation and its supposedly universalising technology. The position developed, within the AALU programme has eschewed both the strategies of dispersal and the politics of conservative resistance, largely as a result of the locations with which we have been engaging. The ever expanding metropolises of Mexico, Sri Lanka, Dubai and China, Europe for example, have rendered any straightforward adoption of conventional models incongruous to its concerns. On the other hand, the programme’s theoretical orientation, drawing at its outset upon the poststructuralist thought of figures such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and FÊlix Guattari, has placed it directly at odds with the phenomenological and humanist orientation of regionalist positions. Rather than operate under the dictates of a post-fordist teleology, or be guided by a phenomenological/humanist agenda, AALU has forged a distinctive framework of practical knowledge, responsive design instruments and theoretical perspectives developed in an ongoing dialogue with the conditions it has addressed over the course of its existence. In this sense
the programme has developed through a logic of PRAXIS. The concept of Territory underpins our current Praxis, engaging the programme with wider conversations and disciplines, in particular Geography and Geomorphology. The programme has been constantly evolving, integrating practices such as cartography and new applications of technologies such as scripted simulations and GIS mapping, all of which are widely available in geographical disciplines but relatively untapped within disciplines engaged with large scale territories. Following a research by design methodology, students develop the ability to abstract complex territorial formations and landscape-based models to generate a set of novel guidelines that can potentially be deployed in comparable territories. These guidelines for new socio-spatial outcomes provide an alternative to conventional planning projects, challenging how urban territories are designed and ultimately reconfigured.
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Aeolian Sand Odyssey- Atlas- 2013/14 -Anastasia Kotenko, Niki Kakali
TERRITORY OF ENGAGEMENT Who designs Britain?
AALU will continue exploring UK and similar territories in partnership with the British Geological Survey and the New Economic Foundation. As a case study, UK landscapes and cities reflect best the disorienting conditions of the contemporary world. Political uncertainty is part of the daily life, whether part of a European framework or outside of it, whilst existing socio-economic structures affect directly the built and natural environment, and its relationship with people. For example, agricultural and land ownership policies have exacerbated flooding in the lower cities and, London central power have depressed development in coastal towns which are unable to transform their economies and tackle the threat of rising water levels and climate change. These and other instances have prompt us to question the potential role a landscape urbanist can play in contemporary UK.
Implementing latest technologies to simulate the behaviour of cities, landscapes, and territories, using software, scripts, to foresee possible future scenarios with the help of partner scientists and researchers. Understanding the use of space, from a UK and other territories perspective, by diagramming and proposing new spatial configuration of public space in accordance to 21st century challenges. “The AA is a Partner Institution and Affiliated Research Centre of The Open University (OU), UK. All taught graduate degrees at the AA are validated by the OU. The OU is the awarding body for research degrees at the AA.�
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Using design as the main skill, the Landscape Urbanist from the AA will speculate and imagine potential designed policies, tools and scenarios that could offer UK alternatives to navigate and negotiate current spatial problems into potential futures by: Exploring cartographic practices with the capacity to influence the public sphere and decisionmaking processes, such as interactive and participatory maps built by local people with data gathered on site. Revisiting concepts such as commons, public participation, platform cooperativism, etc. through the lens of design, and their implications to build collecting design frameworks and management of shared resources that are neither public nor private.
Sheepwreck - Interactive Tool 2018/19 - Rafael Caldera Martinez - Swadheet Chaturvedi
Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the Graduate Admissions Team on +44 (0)20 7887 4007/4067/4094 or graduateadmission@aaschool. ac.uk
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Graduate Bursaries The AA is committed to giving as many talented students as possible the opportunity to study. Approximately one in six AA students receives financial assistance through our Scholarship, Bursary and Assistantship programme. Awards range from one to oneand-a-half terms, covering a proportion of student fees for the year.
I saw that a lot of the studio work done seems to require knowledge of computing software like GIS, Rhino, Grasshopper, etc. Are these taught as part of the programme or is prior knowledge necessary? Students aren’t expected to have any prior experiencing using the software. Throughout the year, the computational support is provided by the technical tutors. In Term 1, workshops will be undertaken with the intent of bringing everyone to an equal base level. Of course, prior knowledge of the software is beneficial. Throughout term 1, on the weekends, the AA runs seminars in a variety of different software which are open to the whole school.
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Application Procedure Entry to the Landscape Urbanism Programme is made by completing an online Graduate School Application Form and submitting a design portfolio showing previous professional and academic experience (no larger than A4, and between ten and 30 pages, CDs are also accepted but must be accompanied by a printed hard copy). Please refer to the AA Graduate Prospectus for more information.
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APPLICATIONS How to apply and entry requirements
MArch Landscape Urbanism (16 month course) Five-year professional degree or diploma in architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism or other relevant discipline (BArch/Diploma equivalent).
What are some of the computer programs used within the course? Students are encouraged to explore a range of different tools relevant to their project. Alongside some of the more common 3D modelling and drafting software such as Rhinoceros or CAD, we explore the potentials of GIS mapping techniques in addition to some scripted simulations using firstly Grasshopper and later moving into the Python programming language. We also explore the potential of videos, online maps and websites. Another central part of the course is the use of physical modelling and fabrication techniques, making use of the AA’s excellent Digital Prototyping Lab.
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MSc Landscape Urbanism (12 month course) Professional degree or diploma in architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, urban planning, geography or other relevant discipline.
Fees Fees for 2018/19* academic year: MA/MSc (New students, full Programme) £25,575 MArch - 16 months (New students, full Programme) £35,507 All graduate students are required to pay an additional £95 AA Membership and Student Forum fee per year. This amount will be added to the Term 1 tuition fees.
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architecture, civil engineering, spatial analysis and structural engineering. As a result, while the course is specifically geared towards advanced level research students in architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism, we encourage students from any related discipline such as engineering or geography. What happens after Landscape Urbanism? Where do graduates typically find jobs? The Landscape Urbanism studio is an internationally regarded laboratory for tools and ideas useful for landscape and territorial research. You will learn relevant technical skills along with an approach which fosters critical thinking, collaboration and the ability to consider issues through time, something fundamental to the contemporary urban condition. Landscape Urbanism graduates have found employment around the world. Some have worked in practices such as Groundlab, Plasma Studio, ARUP, AECOM, Heatherwick Studio, Foster and Partners, Gustafson and Porter, Marth Schwartz Partners, others have become involved in academia, and some have started their own practices.
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The MSc in Landscape Urbanism will develop the ability to comparatively analyse, interpret and generalise large-scale and complex territorial formations in order to generate a set of design guidelines (i.e. Manual) that can potentially be deployed and transferred into comparable territories (i.e. Atlas). These design documents will be the outcome of a research by design methodology based on analytical and design tools and techniques (its development and refinement) such as digital geomorphological simulations, GIS mapping and cartographic concepts and practices. This technical and scientific methodology will be used to facilitate the reappropriation of landscape-based models into the production of alternative and novel design guidelines, as opposed to traditional and conventional planning projects, for the design of large-scale territories. The MArch in Landscape Urbanism will produce site specific projects that will work as an operative test bed of territorial design guidelines. As such the projects will be understood as the critical application and on site implementation of techniques
and theories into concrete designed scenarios. The MArch degree will foster a way of thinking in which the overarching questions developed in territorial design guidelines and the specificity of particular site conditions will mutually feed back. The students will have an opportunity to additionally develop an in-depth research on the given site, in collaboration with local universities and institutions, over the summer months. This investigation will contribute to reflect critically on the theoretical aspects of the course, and discuss the relevancy of the discipline in the given specific context.
Course Structure & Lecture Series
PROGRAM CONTENT Bifurcation model
The Landscape Urbanism programme is offered according to a Bifurcation Model, whereby two degrees are offered, MArch and MSc. Students from both degrees will share a substantial proportion of their course, developing their projects in groups. The MArch and the MSc students will be firstly mixed together, allowing them to share each others skillsets before later separating and developing their specific design proposals.
Energy Landscapes 2013/14 - Eugenio Da Rin and Josine Lambert
Term 1: Territorial Formations • Workshop 1: Landscript • Workshop 2: Social Formations • Workshop 3: Manufactured Grounds • Seminar Series: Model, Methods and Histories • Lecture Series: Landform Dynamics Term 2 : Cartogenesis • Design Studio: Territory Research • Design Studio: Atlas of Transferable Grounds • Design Studio: Cartogenesis • Lecture Series: Cartographies; Genealogies and Practices • Seminar Series: The Rhetoric of Mapping Term 3 : Tectonic Grounds • Design Studio: Territorial Morphology • Design Studio: Tectonic Grounds • Workshop 4: Digitally Fabricated Territories • Lecture Series: Landscape Urbanism • Seminar Series: LU Core Seminar Term 4: Design Thesis • Final Design Thesis Preparation (MArch) • Seminar Series: Machining Landscapes • Final Design Thesis Preparation (MSc) The studio is supported by Seminar and Lecture Series that take place during Terms 1 and 2. In addition to mandatory attendance at these events, students are required to make presentations and to undertake 4 essays.
• Preparation (MSc) The studio is supported by Seminar and Lecture Series that take place during Terms 1 and 2. In addition to mandatory attendance at these events, students are required to make presentations and to undertake 4 essays. A series of weekly lectures, approximately an hour in length, are followed by an opportunity for students to discuss the issues raised. Appropriate reading for each lecture is indicated in advance, with a broader reading list provided for each course. Some notable past lecturers include: •
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Site Explorations & Consultations
A field trip to the location chosen for the studio project of each group takes place generally at the end of Term 2, in order for students to examine specific site conditions, access sources of information, and meet with local practitioners and researchers. Students select the site to be visited on a group basis according to the previous research and project location. Recent locations include the Rhondda Valleys, Swansea Bay, Lewisham Dacre Park, River Lea and Hamburg.
Dacre Park Allotments - Yuxi Tong
River Lea - Deng Liu
FIELD WORKSHOPS
Swansea Bay - Eunji Lee & Jianxin Liang
Hamburg - Daniel Kiss & Swadheet Chaturvedi
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Rhondda Valley [Treherbert] - Elena Luciano Suastegui & Rafael Caldera with Welcome to Our Woods’s Richard & Ceri
The AA Landscape Urbanism program exhibits every year at the AA Projects Review and regularly around the world in different venues. The exhibition spaces are collaboratively designed and installed by the current students.
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AALU Exhibition 2010
AALU Exhibition 2012
EXHIBITIONS
AALU Exhibition Video Screen 2015
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Brenner, N., 2013. Implosions/ explosions towards a study of planetary urbanization. Berlin: Jover.
Oloriz Sanjuan, C. (2019, Forthcoming) Landscape as Territory. New York and Barcelona: Actar.
Corner, J., 1999. The agency of mapping: speculation, critique and invention. In: D. Cosgrove, ed. Mappings. London: Reaktion, pp. 213-52.
Spencer, D. (2016) The Architecture of Neoliberalism. London and New York: Blomsbury.
Cosgrove, D., 1998. Social formation and symbolic landscape. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Castro, E. Ramirez, A. Rico, E. Spencer D. (2014) Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis. London, Actar/List
Cosgrove, D., 2008. Geography and vision. Seeing, imagining and representing the world. London: I.B.Tauris & Co.
Recent Journal Articles: Ramirez, A. Castro, (2014) Flowing Gardens. Xi’an International Horticultural Expo, Presterl Verlag, MunichLondon-New York
Suggested Reading List
PUBLICATIONS Theorisations & Deliverations
The following publications by the AA Landscape Urbanism staff document some of the key recent ideas which underpin the development of the research agenda within the program.
Spencer, D. (2014) “Nature is the Dummy”. New Geographies: Grounding Metabolism, 6 Ramirez, A. Oloriz, C. (2014) “Lost Landscapes, Reclaiming Remoteness Interview”. Journal of Landscape Architecture: Kerb, Issue 22 Ramirez, A. Castro E. (2014) Landscape Urbanism Interview. in: Jeannette Sordi (ed.) Beyond Urbanism. New York, Actar/List Ramírez, A. & Olóriz, C., 2016. Beyond land: towards a territorial praxis. Kerb: Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 24, pp. 84-89.
Elden, S., 2013. Secure the volume: vertical geopolitics and the depth of power. Political Geography, Volume 34, pp. 35-51. Elden, S., 2013. The birth of territory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. Elden, S., 2017. Legal terrain– the political materiality of territory. London Review of International Law, 5(2), pp. 199224. Hutton, J., 2013. Reciprocal landscapes: material portraits in New York City and elsewhere. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 24 May, 8(1), pp. 40-47. Malm, A., 2018. The progress of this storm: nature and society in a warming world [ebook reader], London and New York: Verso. Pointon, M., 1979. Geology and landscape painting in nineteenth-century England. In: L. Jordanova & R. Porter, eds. Images of the Earth. essays in the history of environmental sciences. Oxford: The Alden Press, pp. 84-108.
Littoral Negotiations - The Mediterranean - Liam Mouritz, Ting-Fu Chang, Xiabin Hu
Shane, G., 2003. The emergence of “Landscape Urbanism.”
Reflections on Stalking Detroit. Harvard Design Magazine, Fall, Issue 19, pp. 1-8. Sigler, T. J., 2014. Panama as palimpsest: the reformulation of the ‘transit corridor’ in a global economy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(3), pp. 886-902. Sloterdijk, P., 2013. In the world interior of capital: Towards a philosophical theory of globalization. Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA.: Polity. Spencer, D., 2016. The architecture of neoliberalism: How contemporary architecture became an instrument of control and compliance. London and Oxford: Bloosmbury Academic. Swyngedouw, E., 2015. Liquid power. Contested hydro-modernities in twentieth-century Spain. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Toscano, A. & Kinkle, J., 2015. Cartographies of the absolute. Hants: Zero Books. Waldheim, C., 2016. Landscape as urbanism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Wall, E. & Waterman, T., 2018. Landscape and agency. Critical essays. Oxon and New York: Routledge. Weizman, E., 2012. Hollow Land: Israel’s architecture of occupation. London: Verso Books. Williams, R., 2008. Excavations I: Digging down the truth. In: Notes on the underground. An essay on technology, society and the imagination. Cambridge, MA and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wood, D., 2010. Maps blossom in the springtime of the state. In: Rethinking the power of maps. New York: Guilford Publications, pp. 15-38.
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Control over Nature manifested itself in the concept of landscape preservation. The Curonian Spit – a 100km length strip of sands, is today under strict UNESCO protection, which actually results in the disappearing of territory. Current dune management approaches negate the dunes, while at the same time social and economic activities are in decay. Is there a degree of control that allows both territorial forces and human activity to coexist? This project proposes to open active sand areas – corridors of dunes, shifting according to time cycles of both dunes and forestry formations.
Aeolian Sand Odyssey_AALU 13/14
RESEARCH PROJECTS
By Niki Kakali and Anastasia Kotenko
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The British territorial crust is subsiding, facing increased flooding risks. The short-term flooding protection tends to act upon a centralized territorial framework. From Cameron’s speech, the Flood policy presents more capital distributed towards the centralized model, which might cause a huge loss in areas along the coastal communities. Our proposition seeks to revert the broken economic model using tidal force as an instrument for transformation. Here flooding acts as an agent to influence the regional disparities and provoke decentralization.
Coastal Futures_AALU 13/14
RESEARCH PROJECTS
By Valeria Garcia and Yunya Tang
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Mountain landscapes have been subjected to a relentless conflict between conservative picturesque attitudes ad economic exploitation approaches. The project is informed by an understanding of the river as a water-sediment management machine that choreographs newly manufactured riparian landscapes. The proposed series of small interventions engage with dynamic variation through multiple time scales, with significant consequences along the river, not relying on a mere ecological restoration but also involving various human activities and production processes. By Eugenio Da Rin and Josine Lambert
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Mountain landscapes have been subjected to a relentless conflict between conservativepicturesque attitudes and economic exploitation approaches. The project by Eugenio Da Rin and Josine Lambert proposes a strategy that understands the river as a watersediment management machine that choreographs newly manufactured riparian landscapes in order to put forward a decision-making mechanism to face the conflicting perspectives with existing social formations.
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turn the entire hydropower notion and enforcement, secondly, the role of national boundaries drastically limits a common European engagement.
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1 Maggia Valley (Above) The drawing illustrates the scale of mountain territories and how design interventions may have significant repercussions further downstream. Author: Eugenio Da Rin, Josine Lambert
More than others, the Alpine territory clearly states a conflictual condition in which seven different national policies read and deal with one single system. From a more local perspective the water management also deals with complex specific conditions. The primary security requirement against flooding hazards, the conservation of the traditional economical and social organizations within an infrastructural urbanization tendency, with the related consistent shifts in the amount of population, and the claims of mass tourism as the dominant economy portray the fascinating complexity of mountain territories. Furthermore these conflicts are inscribed in a framework whereas aestheticccategories of sublime and picturesque on one hand and technoinfrastructural efficiency on the other enhance opposite approaches to the territory.
2 Atlas of Mountain Rivers (Right) An important source of Europe’s riparian landscape are the mountain rivers. They provide for the major part of Europe’s hydro-power network. By exploiting mountain rivers for hydro-power purposes and intervening in the natural behaviorof these landforms, these rivers and their riparian landscapes are heavily affected. Author: Eugenio Da Rin, Josine Lambert 3 Sediments in the Northern Sea (pp.4 top) The drawing illustrates how not only on top of mountain territories, but also at the very bottom of the sea landforms are exploited for creating energy. The watercycle needs to be understood and considered in his whole development. Author: Eugenio Da Rin, Josine Lambert 4 Sediments in the Northern Sea (pp.4 bottom) The drawing shows the energy-related social formations and power networks in the Netherlands with regards to sandbar landforms. Author: Eugenio Da Rin, Josine Lambert
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The project proposes a new design approach towards ‘Water Management Policies’ in Europe and specifically the North of Spain. It intersects social and geomorphological formations to intervene and design new productive and political entities that could make use of micro-flooding in order to provoke scenarios of river and agricultural landscapes alternative to the current technocratic conditions.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Flooding Mechanisms_AALU 14/15
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This project explores the blurred interface between the land and the sea known as the littoral zone. The very matter from which this condition is constructed is wet sand or sediment. This is the material from which we begin to envision alternative design scenarios for the littoral zone of the Mediterranean Sea. Find out more about the project on http://littoralnegotiatio.wix.com/littroalnegotiation?fb_ ref=Default
Littoral Negotiations_AALU 14/15
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By Liam Mouritz, Ting Fu Chang and Xiabin Hu
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This project delves into questions of ongoing desertification processes in remote landscapes. Frequently we find claims about the overuse of land and unsuitable agricultural processes that provoke droughts and desertification, leading to increasing human conflicts. In this project we intervene within Nukus, part of the desiccated Aral Sea region, where shifting sands are moving over cities and productive grounds. We attempt to choreograph dune formations as a way to resow preserved urban clusters, transforming their morphological conditions with landscape spatial qualities.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Projective Sandscapes_AALU 14/15
By Elena Longhin Chris Lo and Chan Howe
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Forever Aur is a project that explores resulting scenarios from alternative methods of managing tailing waste from gold mining. It re-imagine the post-mining landscape as a co-mining territories to form a platform that generate alternative economies. It does so by exploring a case study in Rosia Montana, Romania, and its potential implications for the future of that territory.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Forever Aur_AALU 15/16
By Hao Wen Lin (MSc) and Shreya Save (MArch)
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Shifting Artic Boundaries is a thesis that deals with the conflict between reindeer economy in the arctic pole region and the booming growth of infrastructures and extraction industires linked to north pole routes open by climate change.
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Shifting Arcitc Boundaries_AALU 15/16
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Reclaiming agrarian sandscapes is a project that explores Lanzarote island and the landscape produced by the rising tourism industry and the abandonment of the former agrarian landscape. Through the understanding of the local conditions ( physical, social and economic aspects) the students produced a landscape that benefit inhabitants using local agrarian techniques and the booming agro-torusim industry. It produces a design territorial intervention that can work as an island policy to manage productive land. By Rimjhim Chauhan, Sun Tao and Majedeh Sayyedi
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6 Social Formations, (right) This cartography indicates the underutilised potential of the Jable corridor, due to its dettachment from the tourism circuit and its low agroproductivity despite the high visibility. This can be attributed to the obvious older demographic of the local towns as well as the disinterest of the government in the hinterland. These analyses give clues to allow us to reclaim the land into agricultural production while increasing opportunity for tourism activities.
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The project proposes a large-scale proposal to revitalise the UK coastal landscape through a combination of fisher association via digital technology (app design) and policy design to regulate activities and protect small fishing industry. Both will create the capacity of fishers to organise themselves and over time propose new harbor communal infrastructure (pictured) that will harness the natural currents to create sand spits and aggregative structure made of recycled material (disposed tires). Fishers will expand or decrease its size according to the success of the industry or its diversification in related activities (restaurants, markets. Museums, etc.).
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Directors: Jose Alfredo Ramirez is an architect and founding director of Groundlab where he has won and developed several competitions, workshops, exhibitions and projects. He is Director of the AA Visiting School in Mexico City and has lectured internationally on the topic of landscape urbanism and the work of Groundlab.
Technical Tutors: Gustavo Romanillos is an architect and researcher interested in the spatial analysis of urban and territorial dynamics. He completed his degree in Architecture at the ETSAM, and a Masters in Geographic Information Technologies at the UCM. His research and teaching activities are based in Spain, Nicaragua and the UK.
Eduardo Rico studied civil engineering in Spain and graduated from the AA’s Landscape Urbanism programme. He has been a consultant and researcher in the fields of infrastructure and landscape in Spain and the UK. Currently he is working within the Arup engineering team. He has also taught at Harvard GSD and the Berlage Institute.
Claudio Campanile is an engineer and computational designer. His main interest relies on developing computational tools and integrated pipelines to synthesise complexity within design problems. Namely, within the domain of complex geometries, structural systems and digital manufacturing to deliver innovative design technology models for the built environment.After having experienced jobs in China and the UK, Claudio obtained his MSc in the Emergent Technologies and Design programme at the AA School of Architecture.
Seminar Tutors: Teresa Stoppani is an architect and architecture theorist. She is the author of Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice (Routledge, 2010) and of Unorthodox Ways to Think the City (Routledge 2018), and co-editor of This Thing Called Theory (Routledge 2016). She is the instigator of the architecture research collective ThisThingCalledTheory, and an editor of The Journal of Architecture (RIBA).
Website (Programme): http:// landscapeurbanism.aaschool. ac.uk/ Facebook (Galleries): https:// www.facebook.com/pages/ Twitter (News): https://twitter. com/AALandscapeUrb Blog (Articles): http://aalandscape-urbanism.blogspot. co.uk/ Issuu (Completed Design Thesis): http://issuu.com/ aalandscapeurbanism Graduate School Administrator, Clement Chung clement@aaschool.ac.uk Directors, José Alfredo Ramirez alfredo@aaschool.ac.uk
AALU Brochure: The AA Landscape Urbanism class of 2018/19
Eduardo Rico Eduardo.Rico@arup.com
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Studio Master: Clara Oloriz Sanjuan is a practising architect and received her PhD from the eTsA Universidad de Navarra. She has worked for FOA, Cerouno, Plasma Studio and Groundlab. She teaches at the University of Navarra and is co-director of the AA Visiting School in Bilbao. She co-directs an AA research cluster titled Urban Prototypes.
MSc / MArch in Landscape Urbanism 2015-16, Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES
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