14. Lubricity

Description: Lubricity was one of five proposals commissioned by the Architecture Foundation and Royal Academy to explore London As It Could Be Now: New Visions for the Thames. Responding to a project and exhibition of works by the architect Richard Rogers titled London As It Could Be, Lubricity imagines a contrasting future that questions future work, architectural forms, and urban centres. >>>

Ed speaks at Polimi Summer School

In September Ed was invited to give a presentation of his design practice work at the International Summer School of the Politecnico di Milano.

Lubricity / Lubrication

Lubricity is a utopian speculation for London developed over several workshops with Helena Rivera, George Wade, Alex Malaescu, Kate Priestman and Ed Wall. The team formed was selected by the Architecture Foundation and the project was presented and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2013, London as it could be now. >>>

Royal Academy Summer Show 2013

The model for the Machinist Landscape design proposal is featured in the Royal Academy Summer Show 2013.

New post at Greenwich

Ed has been appointed Academic Leader for Landscape at the University of Greenwich, in London. He will lead a portfolio of landscape and urbanism programmes including, BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture, MA Landscape Architecture and the new MSc Advanced Landscape and Urbanism programme that will commence in 2014. Do get in touch to know more about the porgrammes and potential collaborations. >>>

Sneaking into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2013

Mike’s model for the Machinist Landscape design proposal has been accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition this year. >>>

Paisajes críticos / Critical Landscapes

A Landscape Conversation: Design, Representation, Process is a paper co-written by Tim Waterman and Ed Wall, recently published in the latest Critical Landscapes issue of Urban. The paper was first presented in 2010 at the Emerging Landscapes conference at the University of Westminster.

Image credit: DIRT Studio, 2001

Paper abstract: >>>

Incomplete Cartographies

Antonia Dawes and Ed Wall led a workshop for the 2013 NYLON Conference held jointly at the London School of Economics and Goldsmiths. The workshop, Cartographies and Itineraries: Walking through the Elephant and Castle Market, provided partial maps and incomplete information as an introduction for participants to explore further. >>>

Van Alen Workshop

Thanks to all of those who joined and made Friday’s workshop at the Van Alen Institute, in New York, possible. Contact Ed if you want to join any of the coming events or simply follow the Liverpool New York blog and occasional Tweets.

DESIGNING NATURE AS INFRASTRUCTURE

In November Ed and Mike Dring presented a paper, Landscape of variance: working the gap between design and nature, at the Designing Nature as Infrastructure conference at the Technical University in Munich (TUM).

The paper describes >>>