Infrastructural Urbanism
DOM publishers have recently released their book, “Infrastructural Urbanism. Addressing the In – Between”. This book features an essay by Ed exploring the relationship between large infrastructure and the public realm of the city.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Infrastructural-Urbanism-Peripheries-Thomas-Hauck/dp/3869221313 / www.dom-publishers.com
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.
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.
infrastructural urban design
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. >>>
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.
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.
Roaming Forest
The Roaming Forest is moved around the city by individuals, groups and the municipality in preparation for the opening of the Biennale of Landscape Urbanism.
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 >>>