Biennale of Landscape Urbanism 2010
The Biennale of Landscape Urbanism opened on Saturday 25 September. Ed joined the opening event in Bat-Yam, Israel following several days of finalizing the Roaming Forest project with Yael Bar Maor.
Timing 2010, the Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, explores the tension between the temporary and the permanent and between the planned and the experienced. This municipal-led initiative, curated by Yael Moria-Klain and Sigal Barnir, offers the city of Bat-Yam as a laboratory for examining alternative uses for urban space. Landscape architects, artists and architects were invited to reinvent the spaces, processes and conditions that give rise to conditions of temporality in the city.
This project is a collaboration with Yael Bar Maor and Mike Dring. Selected and built for the Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, the Roaming Forest is an exploration of adaptation and temporality in the public realm of the city.
An alternative vision to offshore exploration
A unique collaboration, with Helena Rivera, Dickon Hayward and James Richer to design a new city in Colombia. The aim was to propose a framework for an adaptable city infrastructure that could expand and contract as the population fluctuates. This project was led by Helena Rivera, A Small Studio Ltd, and was commissioned by a public limited company in Colombia. For more information >>>
Dare Terra
Ed was invited by Prof. Contin and Prof. D’Alfonso, of the Politecnico di Milano, to present a paper at the Dare Terra Symposium at the Urban Center in Milan.
A Landscape Conversation: design, representation, process
Tim Waterman and Ed Wall presented the paper Landscape: design, representation, process – a conversation, at the University of Westminster Emerging Landscapes Conference.
Image: Berger 1979
Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design
The book, Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design, was published by AVA Publishing in December 2009. This collaboration between Tim Waterman and Ed Wall is an introductory text examining the relationships between landscape and urban design. There were many generous contributions from colleagues and friends to realize this work – and, of course, the patient editing of Renee Last.
www.avabooks.ch / www.amazon.co.uk / www.timwaterman.wordpress.com
Informality in Derelict Public Spaces of the Contemporary City
Ed Wall and Sam Johnston presented the paper, Informality in Derelict Public Spaces of the Contemporary City, at the ECLAS (European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools) 2009. This presentation was generously supported by the School of Architecture and Landscape, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Kingston University.
Informal Public: London Festival of Architecture 2008
This research project, with Sam Johnston, explores the informal activities of public space in global cities. The project was conceived for the London Festival of Architecture 2008 and continues as an ongoing research investigation.
This project involves the presentation of the paper “Informality in the derelict spaces of the contemporary city” at the ECLAS conference in September 2009.
www.informalpublic.org / www.samueljohnston.net / www.eclas.org