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01 Organic food and plant productionby David Fitzpatrick

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02 Breathing Spacesby James Richer

1 landscape in progress2 water: london3 water: london projects4 guzzle: vauxhall5 sanctuary: east india dock6 agrican.unity: regent’s canal7 water: wider + deeper8 collaboration9 collaboration + exchange10 landscape abroad11 landscape scope12 landscape local13 landscape futures14 landscape interface studio15 courses + contacts

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Landscape is by its very nature always ‘in progress’: in flux, evolving, eroding, transform-ing and growing.

Landscape is measured in millimetres, metres, kilometres and continents, through moments and days, seasons and cycles. It is made of city and field, air and water. Landscape is about people and places, use and perception, owner-ship and speculation, resource and potential.

03 Airplotby Joe Sanders

04 Study visit on Wey and Arun Canal

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05 Edgar Road Playby Harry Bix

water: london

Our current focus is water, in particular the Thames and the Thames Catchment Area.London’s canals, tributaries, lost rivers, aqui-fers, sewers, the Port of London, the Thames Estuary and the tidal Thames are some of the fundamental structures of the city and its territory.

This booklet and Thames data capture frag-ments of work in progress from the Landscape Interface Studio, Kingston University.

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Projects promote increased engagement with London’s water; they extend the ‘reach of the river’ for design practice and research, identity and access, navigation and orientation, food production, biodiversity, transport, flood miti-gation and alleviation, health and well-being. Sites are located from the suburbs to the city including the tributaries of the Wandle and the Lea, the Regents and Grand Union canals and the flood plain of the estuary.

Study visits in Paris, looking at the Seine and its tributaries, canals and associated projects, and at the waterfront in Barcelona have pro-vided precedent and inspiration.

water: london projects

06 Inspiration at Antony Gormley’s Another Place

07 Le Jardin Centralby Molly Stroyman

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08 Kings Cross mappingby Judy Pryor


biodiversity:brentford

“There are many benefits to a floating habitat. The plants above water provide shelter, resting and feeding habitat for birds, frogs and aquatic inver-tebrates. The roots under water take up pollution from the water and improve the water quality. The roots also provide a food source and a habitat for fish and other aquatic animals.”

Canal Biodiversity for Brentford by Hanna Williamson

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09 Canal Biodiversityby Hanna Williamson

10 Paris by Brian Lung

guzzle: vauxhall

“Guzzles come and go. As transient features in barrier beach topography, they exist at the whim of storms, especially winter storms.”

Shallow Water Dictionary, John R. Stilgoe

“Water in the urban environment should be celebrated, not channelized, buried, piped and hidden. Guzzle aims to highlight the benefits: the explicit connection of the tidal Thames within the site in the guzzling field; the connection of people and water within the swimming field; the connection of estuarine habitat to the site within the wild field.”

Guzzle by James Richer

£535m cost of the Thames Barrier

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11 agrican.unityby Tom Ginnett

“East India Dock is an Historic 19th century Dock in East London. Today it acts as an impor-tant bird sanctuary and public open space. The project explores the themes of ‘carpets’ vegetative and pictorial as a way of supporting both wildlife and human activity on the site.”

Bird Sanctuary by Josefin Arneskog

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12 Continuing the Palimpsest by Harry Bix

13 Peninsula Parklandsby James Harris

14 Flick book photosby James Harris

“The Regent’s Canal could provide a frame-work for thriving micro communities, cultures and economies through an informal, considerate appropriation of local spaces by local people. The forthcoming Olympics could be utilised as a cata-lyst to develop an urban agricultural model that provides a platform for a cyclical, self perpetuat-ing urban habitation at a local neighbourhood scale.”

agrican.unity by Tom Ginnett

agrican.unity: regent’s canal

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15 Camley Street conceptby Lucy Harris

water: wider + deeper

International research and practice in environ-mental futures, ‘water and urbanism’, ‘making room for the river’ and the bigger picture nec-essarily transcends local, regional and national boundaries.

Our current consultancy with British Waterways and EU partners across Europe, addresses governance and environments of inland waterways and will stimulate widen-ing discourse, collaboration and informed research.

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16 Thames Beachby Iain Glover

17 Guzzleby James Richer

18 Promenade Plantéeby Jason Lupton

collaboration

Collaboration and exchange are fundamental to the Landscape Interface Studio. This is important within and outside of the university, reflecting the scope and reach of our interest.

University exchange includes dialogue with colleagues in built environment professions in Architecture and Surveying, in the faculty context of Art and Design and in the wider university including Health Care, Social Sci-ences and Environmental Sciences.

Outside of the university we have a network of academic and professional practice contacts within and beyond the profession of Land-scape Architecture.

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19 Agrican Unityby Tom Ginnett

Landscape graduate student James Richer worked in a team for the Wey and Arun Canal Trust developing spatial scenarios for the Wey and Arun Navigation: ‘London’s Lost Link to the Sea’.

As an undergraduate student, James designed a proposal for the College Roundabout Com-petition that was short-listed by the Royal Borough of Kingston Arts Committee. The proposal was developed alongside tutors and students from Product Design and Fine Art, in the project led by the Landscape IS.

James returned to the Graduate Diploma course following work with Townshend Land-scape Architects (www.townshendla.com).

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20 East India Dockby Josefin Arneskog

21 Camley Street Modelby Hyeonji Jang

22 Edgar Road Playby Harry Bix

James contributed to the Landscape Interface Studio presentation in the Hague, for the launch conference of the EU funded project, Waterways Forward. This is a collaborative partnership between 17 partner agencies representing waterways across Europe.

“I was drafted into Landscape Interface Studio the Hague team, to record partner interaction.. Our mission: to realize, digest, communicate and disseminate the potential of European inland waterways to the project partners as well as the rest of the world.”

James Richer Graduate Diploma 2010

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23 Den Ibrahimin Barcelona

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Recent workshops: King’s Cross with the London Wildlife Trust; Brentford with British Waterways, Isis and the Thames Landscape Strategy; Paris, with the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage de Versailles; and Cadiz with the Politecnico di Milano.

These experiences have generated study visits and projects in Paris, Barcelona and London.There have also been presentations for the EU Interregional Innovation and Environ-ment programme, in the Hague and a series of lectures with the Politecnico di Milano.

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24 Thames Edge Walkby Scarlett Towse

25 Living on narrow boats on the Wey and Arun canal

26 DARE projectby Usa Pittayayon

“The Landscape IS trip to Paris for me was a really amazing experience, obviously travelling around Paris with friends visiting landmarks such as the, ‘La Paserelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor’, ‘Mémorial de la Déportation’ or ‘Les Frigos’ all while enjoying the culture was great! But for me the part of the trip that marked me the most was the gradual understanding that I gathered of another culture’s perception of Landscape Architecture. This was helped greatly by the close relationship we had with L’Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage de Versailles, and the chances we had to discuss how they felt about the city. I came away from the trip with an immense sense of self discovery in terms of what it means to be a Landscape Architect and the opportunities we have.”

Iain Glover 2010 graduate

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27 Project visit toBarcelona

“The workshop at ENSP and the week was a great experience working with French and German students, learning new landscape vocabularies and trying to understand one another was the most fun. We learnt a lot about our site in Rungis, on the rural outskirts of Paris and our proposals made a point of ‘staging’ the agricultural land and integrating local communities in the large open space...

...I have since been back and seen students I made particularly good friendships with. I am really happy that I made these connections and would encourage anyone to grasp opportunities made available to them at university. The workshop made me aware that design is just as much about social exchange as it is about the production of work.”

Harry Bix 2010 graduate

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28 Landform and gradingby Lucy Harris and Lucy Costall

29 Levelling the river bankby Lucy Costall

Landscape Architecture is increasingly involved with large scale strategic and policy informing activity - not just at the regional but also at the national and international level of thinking and action.

This relates to environmental policy, politi-cal knowledge exchange, sustainable land use management and development, infrastructure engineering, sustainable energy generation, wide communication on issues of climate change, food production, ‘big-picture’ net-works, material identity and experience of place across scales of space and time - from the immediate and the local to the long term and the global.

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30 London analysisby David Hammond

The Landscape Interface Studio has cur-rency, vitality and durability working in the context of local heritage and knowledge-rich environments of KU, the Thames, Hampton Court, Royal Parks: Richmond and Bushy, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the London creative economy.

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31 Study tour observationsby Landscape Interface Studio

32 Thames analysisby third year

Landscape Interface Studio, students, staff and graduates, develop projects that capture timely initiative and personal potential.

Mark Job, a Senior Landscape Architect with multidisciplinary Arup Environmental Consulting (www.arup.com), was a guest LIS tutor, discussing ‘Detail in Landscape Architecture’:

“My enthusiasm for the profession is entirely based upon my experience at Kingston University where I feel students are encouraged to explore diversity within the wider subject, pursuing their individual interests. This led to two key develop-ments which have maintained my interest in Landscape Architecture. Firstly, being encouraged...”

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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE + URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE

“Infrastructural systems works like artificial ecologies. They manage the flows of energy & resources on site, and they direct the density and distribution of habitats.” Stan Allen

DETAIL PROJECT-EAST INDIA DOCKS

33 Detail Projectby Josefin Arneskog

34 Measuring the beachin Barcelona

35 Thames sketchby Yesol Park

“...to find areas of the subject which were of particular interest, I have now developed special-isms in river restoration and habitat creation, which have been realised through projects, at Arup, for the Environment Agency . Secondly, through gaining experience of the diversity of the subject, I firmly believe that Landscape Architects perform an essential role in coordinating technical information from a multitude of disciplines into a coherent whole.”

Mark Job Graduate 2005

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36 Interface Camley Streetby David Fitzpatrick

The Landscape Interface Studio brings together professional education, practice and research that is able to draw in expertise and engage with collaborative action that extends individual reach and collective impact. Students are active in collective projects with the challenges of real time requirements and the benefits of immediacy of client contact.

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37 Canal boats on the Wey and Arun canal

38 Blurring the boundariesby Denizer Ibrahim

39 Chrysalis Londonby Morgan Layton

Staff team practice and research:

Landscape is intrinsically ‘multi-’ and ‘trans-disciplinary’ and project-based; research and practice is necessarily cross-cutting.

The staff team has diverse professional prac-tice, academic and research expertise: urban design, architecture, planning, sustainable practice, digital media, communication and making.

Staff team includes: Pat Brown, Ed Wall, Michael Herrmann, Matt Parker, Helena Rivera, Bridget Snaith, Lucy Tauber, Leo Thom and Carine Brannan



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40 Camley Streetby James Garis

BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture students:

Josephin Arneskog, Harry Bix, Bo-Kyung Chang, Lucy Costall, Asha Farah, James Garis, Jad Ghaziri, Iain Glover, Lucy Harris, Denizer Ibrahim, Debra Israel, Samuel Jjingo, Zofia Mrowka, Judith Prior, Donald Roberts, Seo Minju, James Stearn, Scarlett Towse, HyeonJi Jang

Graduate Diploma (one year) Landscape Architecture students:

Kemi Atiba, Paul Bratton, Spencer Darg, Daniele Croquet-Lavin, David Fitzpatrick, Tom Ginnett, David Hammond, James Harris, Ellie Johnson, Chris Kirk, Alenka Kostiviarova, Simon Lapinski, Brian Leung, Jason Lupton, Hanna Williamson, James Richer, Youkang Seo, Nicholas Willmore

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41 Basin de l ’Arsenalby Ellie Johnson

42 Deptford Creek edgesby Chris Kirk

43 Detail projectby Joe Sanders and Aaron Carpenter

Landscape Interface Studio courses at Kingston University:

BA(Hons) Landscape ArchitectureGraduate Diploma Landscape ArchitectureMA Landscape + UrbanismMFA Landscape Architecture Urbanism*MA Landscape Urbanism + Creative EconomyMA by ResearchMPhil/PhD

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