Through the semester several people joined, including: Shannon Mattern (University of Pennsylvania), Helena Rivera (A Small Studio), Deborah Helaine Morris (Columbia Climate School / NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation), Anthony Engi-Meacock (Assemble), Sam Naylor (Utile), Jane Wolff (University of Toronto), Kristin Baja, Rosetta Elkin (Pratt), Martí Franch Batllori (EMF), Larry Botchway (PoOR Collective), Tawkiyah Jordan (Habitat for Humanity / Loeb Fellow), David Luberoff (Joint Center for Housing), Steve Koller (Joint Center for Housing), and Rosalea Monacella (Harvard University GSD). While in New York City, others supported the project, including: Nani Kauz Apolo (WXY), Sam Stein (Community Service Society), Jeanne DuPont (RISE), RISE staff, Rockaway residents, Tanya Gallo and Andrew Meyers (Living City Project), Doug McPherson (Real Edgemere CLT), and Sofia Zuberbuhler-Yafar (Sustainability & Urban Design NYC DDC).

Project Studio was founded by Ed Wall as a platform for design and research collaborations focused on landscapes, cities and territories. Works, such as Lubricity, Park Works, Roaming Forest, and the Valley Project, have been published in The Guardian, Architects’ Journal, Architectural Design (AD), Building Design, Abitare, and Arch Daily and exhibited at the Van Alen Institute, Royal Academy, Building Centre, Garden Museum, Des Moines Art Center, Landscape Urbanism Biennial, and the Stephen Lawrence Gallery.

Ed Wall is Professor of Cities and Landscapes at the University of Greenwich and a Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is also a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, and in 2017, was the City of Vienna Visiting Professor for urban culture, public space and the future–urban equity and the global agenda (SKuOR/TU Wien). He holds a PhD from the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ed explores public practices and landscape processes through concerns for spatial justice. His published work includes Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London (2022) and ‘The Landscapists: Redefining Landscape Relations’, an edited special issue of Architectural Design (2020). He also co-edited Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays (2017), Landscape Citizenships (2019), and Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations (2023). He is co-editor of the forthcoming Collective Landscape Futures (2025).

Ed directed Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich for 10-years, developing a critical and interdisciplinary design focus. During this time, he co-founded Testing-Ground: Journal of Landscapes, Cities and Territories. He also established the Un/der/represented Summer School aiming to widen participation for teenagers in designing their own city and initiated the Field Office, a research and knowledge exchange collaboration to support new forms of situated practices. His pedagogical research and work of students has been published widely.

Ed is on the Board of Experts for the European Prize for Public Space and was a Design Council Specialist Expert (2021-2024). He leads the Spatial and Digital Ecologies research group where his work has been supported by the Graham Foundation and Landscape Research Group.

Email: ed@projectstudio.co.uk
Twitter: @eddwall
Instagram: @eddwall

In 2014 the Architecture and Landscape programmes move into a new £76 million building designed by Heneghan Peng. The building includes leading design studios, workshops, computer labs and a public gallery. There are also 14 green landscape roofs which have been awarded a BREEAM Innovation Credit for teaching and research.

Image: Fein, A. (1972) Fredrick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition. New York: George Braziller

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