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Unit 10: Grow

TUTOR: LISA HARMEY

It is possible to say that our perceptions of the significance of natural environments seem to be changing.. as well as our style of interacting with them. This is partly due to the precarity of life and increasing awareness of contingency in the face of destabilising forces and a variety of crises, economic and others. However, ours is also now a preference for very direct individual engagement with natural phenomena which are increasingly accepted to convey a wide range of well-being effects. On a practical level, continuous linear habitats favour wildlife.
As infrastructure, potentially self-sufficient but also strategically active –as a movement space, North Londons Regents’ Canal can be characterised as a “slow” space. The phrase “quietway” is part of the language used to characterise some stretches. Mobility is an uneven phenomenon, as is globalisation and there is recognition now of the value of stillness, or of interruptions in urban situations.
As we have embraced a scale shift we considered how to design for groups in an urban context with reference to the ideas of townscape & the picturesque in order to achieve a key aim, the gratifying whole that is more than the sum of the parts…

ERNA KUGINYTE

Fresh Air Market The Fresh Air + Food Market proposes both public and…

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Spencer Nicholls

Centre for Medical Wellness / St. Mary’s Regeneration Location: Paddington Basin, Paddington, London…

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

IRINI ATHANASIADOU

Cultural Warehouses A cultural centre that stems from the past but looks beyond…

5 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Flory Dao

Vertical Co-Living Looking toward the future, I envision a stronger sense of unity…

4 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

DEREK KONG

Limehouse Exchange The nowadays scenic bay of Limehouse Basin hides a intriguing past….

4 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Yuan Yuan Zeng

Community Fort The chosen site is a fallow public green space next to…

4 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Anna Pavlou

Youth Art Center in Camden The proposal is a cultural and architectural regeneration…

3 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

TOM RIMMINGTON

Grow Street The project challenges the methods of 21st century food production and…

2 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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