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01 Organic food and plant production by David Fitzpatrick
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landscape in progress water: london water: london projects guzzle: vauxhall sanctuary: east india dock agrican.unity: regent’s canal water: wider + deeper collaboration collaboration + exchange landscape abroad landscape scope landscape local landscape futures landscape interface studio courses + contacts
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Landscape is by its very nature always ‘in progress’: in flux, evolving, eroding, transforming and growing. Landscape is measured in millimetres, metres, kilometres and continents, through moments and days, seasons and cycles. It is made of city and field, air and water. Landscape is about people and places, use and perception, ownership and speculation, resource and potential.
129km canals
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04 Study visit on Wey and Arun Canal
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water: london Our current focus is water, in particular the Thames and the Thames Catchment Area. London’s canals, tributaries, lost rivers, aquifers, sewers, the Port of London, the Thames Estuary and the tidal Thames are some of the fundamental structures of the city and its territory. This booklet and Thames data capture fragments of work in progress from the Landscape Interface Studio, Kingston University.
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05 Edgar Road Play by Harry Bix
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water: london projects
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Projects promote increased engagement with London’s water; they extend the ‘reach of the river’ for design practice and research, identity and access, navigation and orientation, food production, biodiversity, transport, flood mitigation and alleviation, health and well-being. Sites are located from the suburbs to the city including the tributaries of the Wandle and the Lea, the Regents and Grand Union canals and the flood plain of the estuary.
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Study visits in Paris, looking at the Seine and its tributaries, canals and associated projects, and at the waterfront in Barcelona have provided precedent and inspiration.
06 Inspiration at Antony Gormley’s Another Place
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07 Le Jardin Central by Molly Stroyman
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biodiversity: brentford for news and projects: www.landscapeis.org www.kingston.ac.uk
“There are many benefits to a floating habitat. The plants above water provide shelter, resting and feeding habitat for birds, frogs and aquatic invertebrates. The roots under water take up pollution from the water and improve the water quality. The roots also provide a food source and a habitat for fish and other aquatic animals.� Canal Biodiversity for Brentford by Hanna Williamson
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08 Kings Cross mapping by Judy Pryor
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guzzle: vauxhall
£535m cost of the Thames Barrier
“Guzzles come and go. As transient features in barrier beach topography, they exist at the whim of storms, especially winter storms.” Shallow Water Dictionary, John R. Stilgoe
“Water in the urban environment should be celebrated, not channelized, buried, piped and hidden. Guzzle aims to highlight the benefits: the explicit connection of the tidal Thames within the site in the guzzling field; the connection of people and water within the swimming field; the connection of estuarine habitat to the site within the wild field.”
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Guzzle by James Richer
09 Canal Biodiversity by Hanna Williamson
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10 Paris by Brian Lung
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sanctuary: east india dock “East India Dock is an Historic 19th century Dock in East London. Today it acts as an important bird sanctuary and public open space. The project explores the themes of ‘carpets’ vegetative and pictorial as a way of supporting both wildlife and human activity on the site.” Bird Sanctuary by Josefin Arneskog
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11 agrican.unity by Tom Ginnett
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agrican.unity: regent’s canal
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“The Regent’s Canal could provide a framework for thriving micro communities, cultures and economies through an informal, considerate appropriation of local spaces by local people. The forthcoming Olympics could be utilised as a catalyst to develop an urban agricultural model that provides a platform for a cyclical, self perpetuating urban habitation at a local neighbourhood scale.”
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agrican.unity by Tom Ginnett
296km thames path 12 Continuing the Palimpsest by Harry Bix 13 Peninsula Parklands by James Harris
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14 Flick book photos by James Harris
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water: wider + deeper International research and practice in environmental futures, ‘water and urbanism’, ‘making room for the river’ and the bigger picture necessarily transcends local, regional and national boundaries. Our current consultancy with British Waterways and EU partners across Europe, addresses governance and environments of inland waterways and will stimulate widening discourse, collaboration and informed research.
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collaboration
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Collaboration and exchange are fundamental to the Landscape Interface Studio. This is important within and outside of the university, reflecting the scope and reach of our interest. University exchange includes dialogue with colleagues in built environment professions in Architecture and Surveying, in the faculty context of Art and Design and in the wider university including Health Care, Social Sciences and Environmental Sciences.
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Outside of the university we have a network of academic and professional practice contacts within and beyond the profession of Landscape Architecture.
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18 Promenade PlantĂŠe by Jason Lupton
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collaboration + exchange Landscape graduate student James Richer worked in a team for the Wey and Arun Canal Trust developing spatial scenarios for the Wey and Arun Navigation: ‘London’s Lost Link to the Sea’. As an undergraduate student, James designed a proposal for the College Roundabout Competition that was short-listed by the Royal Borough of Kingston Arts Committee. The proposal was developed alongside tutors and students from Product Design and Fine Art, in the project led by the Landscape IS. James returned to the Graduate Diploma course following work with Townshend Landscape Architects (www.townshendla.com).
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19 Agrican Unity by Tom Ginnett
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38 main tributaries James contributed to the Landscape Interface Studio presentation in the Hague, for the launch conference of the EU funded project, Waterways Forward. This is a collaborative partnership between 17 partner agencies representing waterways across Europe. “I was drafted into Landscape Interface Studio the Hague team, to record partner interaction.. Our mission: to realize, digest, communicate and disseminate the potential of European inland waterways to the project partners as well as the rest of the world.�
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James Richer Graduate Diploma 2010
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landscape abroad Recent workshops: King’s Cross with the London Wildlife Trust; Brentford with British Waterways, Isis and the Thames Landscape Strategy; Paris, with the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage de Versailles; and Cadiz with the Politecnico di Milano. These experiences have generated study visits and projects in Paris, Barcelona and London. There have also been presentations for the EU Interregional Innovation and Environment programme, in the Hague and a series of lectures with the Politecnico di Milano.
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“The Landscape IS trip to Paris for me was a really amazing experience, obviously travelling around Paris with friends visiting landmarks such as the, ‘La Paserelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor’, ‘Mémorial de la Déportation’ or ‘Les Frigos’ all while enjoying the culture was great! But for me the part of the trip that marked me the most was the gradual understanding that I gathered of another culture’s perception of Landscape Architecture. This was helped greatly by the close relationship we had with L’Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage de Versailles, and the chances we had to discuss how they felt about the city. I came away from the trip with an immense sense of self discovery in terms of what it means to be a Landscape Architect and the opportunities we have.”
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Iain Glover 2010 graduate
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“The workshop at ENSP and the week was a great experience working with French and German students, learning new landscape vocabularies and trying to understand one another was the most fun. We learnt a lot about our site in Rungis, on the rural outskirts of Paris and our proposals made a point of ‘staging’ the agricultural land and integrating local communities in the large open space... ...I have since been back and seen students I made particularly good friendships with. I am really happy that I made these connections and would encourage anyone to grasp opportunities made available to them at university. The workshop made me aware that design is just as much about social exchange as it is about the production of work.” Harry Bix 2010 graduate
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landscape scope
7 counties
Landscape Architecture is increasingly involved with large scale strategic and policy informing activity - not just at the regional but also at the national and international level of thinking and action. This relates to environmental policy, political knowledge exchange, sustainable land use management and development, infrastructure engineering, sustainable energy generation, wide communication on issues of climate change, food production, ‘big-picture’ networks, material identity and experience of place across scales of space and time - from the immediate and the local to the long term and the global.
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landscape local The Landscape Interface Studio has currency, vitality and durability working in the context of local heritage and knowledge-rich environments of KU, the Thames, Hampton Court, Royal Parks: Richmond and Bushy, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the London creative economy.
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landscape futures
over 12m people live in the Thames catchment
Landscape Interface Studio, students, staff and graduates, develop projects that capture timely initiative and personal potential. Mark Job, a Senior Landscape Architect with multidisciplinary Arup Environmental Consulting (www.arup.com), was a guest LIS tutor, discussing ‘Detail in Landscape Architecture’:
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“My enthusiasm for the profession is entirely based upon my experience at Kingston University where I feel students are encouraged to explore diversity within the wider subject, pursuing their individual interests. This led to two key developments which have maintained my interest in Landscape Architecture. Firstly, being encouraged...”
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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE + URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
1 Tower Bridge “...to find areas of the subject which were of particular interest, I have now developed specialisms in river restoration and habitat creation, which have been realised through projects, at Arup, for the Environment Agency . Secondly, through gaining experience of the diversity of the subject, I firmly believe that Landscape Architects perform an essential role in coordinating technical information from a multitude of disciplines into a coherent whole.”
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“Infrastructural systems works like artificial ecologies. They manage the flows of energy & resources on site, and they direct the density and distribution of habitats.” Stan Allen
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landscape interface studio The Landscape Interface Studio brings together professional education, practice and research that is able to draw in expertise and engage with collaborative action that extends individual reach and collective impact. Students are active in collective projects with the challenges of real time requirements and the benefits of immediacy of client contact.
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Staff team practice and research: Landscape is intrinsically ‘multi-’ and ‘transdisciplinary’ and project-based; research and practice is necessarily cross-cutting. The staff team has diverse professional practice, academic and research expertise: urban design, architecture, planning, sustainable practice, digital media, communication and making. Staff team includes: Pat Brown, Ed Wall, Michael Herrmann, Matt Parker, Helena Rivera, Bridget Snaith, Lucy Tauber, Leo Thom and Carine Brannan
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BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture students: Josephin Arneskog, Harry Bix, Bo-Kyung Chang, Lucy Costall, Asha Farah, James Garis, Jad Ghaziri, Iain Glover, Lucy Harris, Denizer Ibrahim, Debra Israel, Samuel Jjingo, Zofia Mrowka, Judith Prior, Donald Roberts, Seo Minju, James Stearn, Scarlett Towse, HyeonJi Jang Graduate Diploma (one year) Landscape Architecture students: Kemi Atiba, Paul Bratton, Spencer Darg, Daniele Croquet-Lavin, David Fitzpatrick, Tom Ginnett, David Hammond, James Harris, Ellie Johnson, Chris Kirk, Alenka Kostiviarova, Simon Lapinski, Brian Leung, Jason Lupton, Hanna Williamson, James Richer, Youkang Seo, Nicholas Willmore Landscape Interface Studio June 2010
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