FINALIST FOR DESIGN OF 1500 ACRE WATER WORKS PARK
The finalists for the Water Works Parkitecture competition were announced last week. Ed’s Project Studio led a team that has been shortlisted. Other finalists include Sasaki Associates, Martha Schwartz Partners, AECOM and Nomad Studio.
The project, titled Park Works, is a collaboration across landscape, engineering, infrastructure and architectural disciplines. >>>
PROJECT FEATURED IN LONDON EXHIBITION
The latest exhibition at the Garden Museum, From Garden City to Green City, features work across art, architecture, horticulture, landscape and urbanism. The exhibition ”explores the many visions, designs and projects that have inspired the ‘green city’ movement over the last 150 years.” The Roaming Forest project by Ed Wall, Yael Bar Maor and Mike Dring was selected to be included as part of the exhibition.
LANDSCAPE AND CRITICAL AGENCY: CALL FOR PAPERS
Landscape and Critical Agency announces a 1-day interdisciplinary symposium on contemporary landscape thinking.
Landscape and Critical Agency will be a 1-day interdisciplinary symposium to explore contemporary thinking about landscape. The symposium has been jointly conceived and organised by staff from four London-based universities and will be held at University College London on Friday, 17th February 2012. >>>
PUBLIC SPACE LONDON
The 6th International Conference of Critical Geography was held in Frankfurt in August. Ed presented in-progress research into the complexity of London’s public space.
7. Park Works
Description: Park Works is a shortlisted design proposal for the Parkitecture international competition >>>
INFRASTRUCTURAL FORM, INTERSTITIAL SPACES AND INFORMAL ACTS
‘As we drive across a motorway intersection, through the elaborately signalled landscape that seems to anticipate every possible hazard, we glimpse triangles of waste ground screened off by steep embankments.’
Concrete Island, J.G. Ballard
Ed submitted a book chapter for a forthcoming book on infrastructural urban design. The essay explores the interstitial spaces of the Westway in London through literature, planning and its use. The book follows the INFRASTRUKTURURBANISMUS conference organised by Thomas Hauck and Volker Kleinekort at TU Munich, www.infrastruktururbanismus.de, and is due to be published by DOM Publishers in the Autumn 2011. >>>
FUTURE LANDSCAPE
Ed has been invited to speak at the BIG LANDSCAPE 2020 CONFERENCE organised by SLIC (Student Landscape Institute Council). On Saturday 2nd July Ed will present a paper on the future of urbanism and landscape. >>>
KINGSTON
Check out the end of year show coming up at Kingston on June 4th.
II CICLO DE CONFERENCIAS AREA DE URBANISMO: CAÑADA REAL GALIANA, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALÁ
Ed was invited by Prof. Daniel Zarza and his colleagues at Universidad de Alcalá to discuss concepts of informality in relation to the production of public space.
The conference series also included lectures: “Infraestructuras y naturaleza” by Ignacio Bisbal, Profesor Urbanismo UAH, “After the Crisis” by Jose Juan Barba,Profesor Urbanismo UAH, “Detroit Ghettos” by Camilo Vergara, Fotografo NYC, “Habitat Madrid” by Emilio Ontiveros, Profesor Urbanismo UAH, “Madrid Verde” by Manuel Aymerich, Profesor Urbanismo UAH, “Lynch`s form of the city” by Roger Simmonds, Profesor Urbanismo Oxford/Brookes
TOPOS 73
Ed has written an article for Topos 73: City Regeneration. The article reports on the Landscape Urbanism Biennale in 2010 and the many diverse projects that take an alternative view on landscape urbanism process.