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Eduardo Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15635089722457080106noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-60989035156392109142015-03-20T03:58:00.001-07:002015-03-20T03:58:43.546-07:00AA Landscape Urbanism projects on display at the AA and Cambridge<p>If you are interested to check latest AA Landscape Urbanism projects, Aeolian San Odyssey and Coastal Futures Projects (by Anastasia Kotenko/Niki Kakali and Yunya Tang/Valeria Garcia respectively) they are currently on display at the Architectural Association School of Architecture Graduate Gallery, 36 Bedford Square and at Cambridge University, Architecture Department, 1-5 Scroope Terrace Cambridge, as part of the Urban Emergencies Exhibition/Conferece. More info here:</p><br/><p>http://www.ueeu.co.uk/</p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/aa-landscape-urbanism-projects-on-display-at-the-aa-and-cambridge/'>AA Landscape Urbanism projects on display at the AA and Cambridge</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-54196542238596550372015-03-18T09:44:00.001-07:002015-03-18T09:44:56.224-07:00AA Landscape Urbanism contribution to the Venice Bienale 2014<div class='issuuembed' style='width: 1140px; height: 678px;' data-url='http://issuu.com/groundlab/docs/architectural_design_research_venic'/><br/> <br/><p>How does AA Landscape Urbanism perform Research through Design? What is the role of concepts such as Landscape and Territory in this regard? Read here Clara Oloriz and Jose Alfredo Ramirez essay ‘Land Formations/Tectonic Grounds’, part of the Architectural Design Research Symposium and forthcoming book originated last November at the Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina within the New Zealand pavilion, a collateral event of last year Venice Bienale 2014 .</p><br/><p>In the essay Clara Oloriz and Jose Alfredo Ramirez ( Studio Master and Co-Director)describes the praxis of AA Landscape Urbanism as a model for a Design by Research programme and the way in which Landscape and Territory are understood as fundamental concepts for its development.</p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/aa-landscape-urbanism-contribution-to-the-venice-bienale-2014/'>AA Landscape Urbanism contribution to the Venice Bienale 2014</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-10940734194972323982015-03-11T03:08:00.001-07:002015-03-11T03:08:43.865-07:00Making Maps by Martí Peran 19 MArch 2015 18:00<h3>Making Maps by Martí Peran</h3><br/><p width='640' align='alignnone' id='attachment_1820'> <a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Making-Maps-Marti-Peran.jpg'><img height='440' width='640' alt='Andrea Aguado "DF" 2013-2015' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Making-Maps-Marti-Peran.jpg' class='size-full wp-image-1820'/></a> <snap class='wpimgcaption'>Andrea Aguado “DF” 2013-2015</snap></p><br/><p><strong>Series: </strong>Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series 2015</p><br/><div><strong>Date: 19</strong>/March/2015<br/><strong>Time: </strong>18:00<br/><strong>Venue: 32 SFB Bedford Square, Architectural Association</strong></div><br/><div> All welcome</div><br/><div/><br/><div>In the context of the crisis of representation, (or in the context of the crisis of traditional cartography), this lecture considers, the need to establish a fresh foundation for cartography. The task of becoming cartographers implies a return to the possibility of deducing the value of territory and the ways of establishing a discourse with it, on the basis of experience. In this way, contemporary art could serve as a model.</div><br/><div><br/><p>Martí Peran is a critic and curator and is also a faculty member of the University of Barcelona. A member of the editors team of <em>Roulotte</em>, he frequently contributes writing to a number of newspapers and art magazines. He has lectured at numerous museums, universities and festivals, and he has curated several historical and contemporary art exhibitions, including the recent ‘This is not a museum’ (2011–13:Barcelona, Liujbliana, Ciudad de México, Wasghinton DC, Santiago de Chile, Miami).</p><br/></div><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/making-maps-by-marti-peran-19-march-2015-1800/'>Making Maps by Martí Peran 19 MArch 2015 18:00</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-12185003858551671872015-02-25T02:54:00.001-08:002015-02-25T02:54:29.486-08:00AA Landscape Urbanism Series 2015: Teresa Stoppani, Invisible Maps, 5th March Architectural Association<p><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Invisible-Maps.png'><img height='450' width='720' alt='Invisible Maps' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Invisible-Maps-720x450.png' class='alignnone size-large wp-image-1807'/></a></p><br/><p>AA Landscape Urbanism Series 2015 present:</p><br/><p>Teresa Stoppani, Invisible Maps,</p><br/><p>5th March, Architectural Association,</p><br/><p>The talk presents excerpts from an ongoing exploration of the process of mapmaking, proposing the use of cartography as a veritable “project” that constructs realities while often remaining concealed in forms of apparently objective presentations and representations. The definitions of the conventions of cartographic representation are themselves the product of an intellectual project that is deeply embedded in the time, society and political contexts of their production. The move away from the figural opens up a questioning of the relations between the object and its representations, which directly questions the nature and the stability of the object itself. Mapping is thus proposed as a dynamic form of making. The talk will draw examples, images and stories from architecture and the visual arts to seek the invisible content of maps and explore the notion of critical cartographies.</p><br/><p>Teresa Stoppani is Professor of Architecture at Leeds Beckett University, where she directs the Leeds School of Architecture and the PhD in Architecture programme. An architect and architectural theoretician, Teresa has taught in the UK, Italy and Australia, and lectured and published internationally. She is currently working on the book <em>X Unorthodox Ways to Rethink the City of Architecture</em> (Routledge, 2016).</p><br/><p> </p><br/><p> </p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/aa-landscape-urbanism-series-2015-teresa-stoppani-invisible-maps-5th-march-architectural-association/'>AA Landscape Urbanism Series 2015: Teresa Stoppani, Invisible Maps, 5th March Architectural Association</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-33666841127621980122015-01-28T08:50:00.001-08:002015-01-28T08:50:35.462-08:00'Nature is the Dummy' essay by Douglas Spencer on metabolism, self-organisation and emergence in design<div class='issuuembed' style='width: 1140px; height: 356px;' data-url='http://issuu.com/aalandscapeurbanism/docs/nature_is_the_dummy-douglas_spencer'/><br/> <br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/nature-is-the-dummy-essay-by-douglas-spencer-on-metabolism-self-organisation-and-emergence-in-design/'>'Nature is the Dummy' essay by Douglas Spencer on metabolism, self-organisation and emergence in design</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-51263588178487092202015-01-28T05:39:00.001-08:002015-01-28T05:39:14.086-08:00AALU Alfredo Ramirez and Eva Castro Interview for Beyond Urbanism Book<div class='issuuembed' style='width: 1140px; height: 828px;' data-url='http://issuu.com/groundlab/docs/beyond_urbanism_-_jeannette_sordi_-'/><br/> <br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/aalu-alfredo-ramirez-and-eva-castro-interview-for-beyond-urbanism-book/'>AALU Alfredo Ramirez and Eva Castro Interview for Beyond Urbanism Book</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-69084291226194656262015-01-15T02:58:00.001-08:002015-01-15T05:14:05.406-08:00AALU Jose Alfredo Ramirez & Clara Oloriz in conversation with KERB Journal and Pierre Belanger<div class="issuuembed" data-url="http://issuu.com/aalandscapeurbanism/docs/kerb_22_remoteness_interview-libre" style="height: 790px; width: 1140px;">
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Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-11837632015708718472014-10-28T03:35:00.001-07:002014-10-28T03:35:07.258-07:00Coastal Futures Issuu Publication<p><a href='http://issuu.com/aalandscapeurbanism/docs/141009_aa_landscape_urbanism_coasta'>AA Landscape Urbanism Coastal Futures is the design thesis of Valeria Garcia and Yunya Tang:</a></p><br/><p>Abstract: The project examines contemporary flooding scenarios and the possibility to use coastal erosion and deposition through tidal creek land formations as productive spatial territories. By instrumentalising these landforms, we intend to radically change the economic conditions and future potential of coastal communities in South England.</p><br/><p><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140926_Coastal-Futures_Yunya-Tang-and-Valeria-Garcia-2.jpg'><img height='450' width='720' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140926_Coastal-Futures_Yunya-Tang-and-Valeria-Garcia-2-720x450.jpg' alt='140926_Coastal Futures_Yunya Tang and Valeria Garcia-2' class='alignnone size-large wp-image-1774'/></a></p><br/><p> </p><br/><p>explore the fullproject <a href='http://issuu.com/aalandscapeurbanism/docs/141009_aa_landscape_urbanism_coasta'>HERE</a></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/coastal-futures-issuu-publication/'>Coastal Futures Issuu Publication</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-26099989257898225162014-10-22T03:55:00.001-07:002014-10-22T03:55:37.717-07:00AA Landscape Urbanism becomes MArch (16 months) & MSc (12 months)<p>The AA Landscape Urbanism programme is evolving!<br/><br/>From 2015-2016 it will become an MArch (16 months) & MSc (12 months) programme.</p><br/><p><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/AALU.jpg'><img height='450' width='720' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/AALU-720x450.jpg' alt='AALU' class='alignnone size-large wp-image-1664'/></a></p><br/><h4>2015/16 Academic Year – MSc* (12 months) / MArch* (16 months)</h4><br/><p>Landscape Urbanism explores how the techniques, dynamics and discourses of landscape-based disciplines can be re-appropriated so as to ask fundamental questions about the contemporary city. It explores the ways in which the intersection of physical and social processes and dynamics of territorial formation generates new forms of urban typologies, governance and knowledge. The course combines material explorations of landscape evolution (facilitated by digital simulations) with the development of critical perspectives and studio work.</p><br/><p>For the 2015/16 academic year Landscape Urbanism will offer a 12-month MSc* and a 16-month MArch* aimed at a wide range of professionals engaged with territorial disciplines ranging from architects and landscape architects to engineers, urban planners and geographers to explore a cross-disciplinary research by design approach to these practices.</p><br/><p>The MSc course develops students? ability to abstract complex territorial formations in order to generate a set of territorial guidelines (Manual) that can be potentially deployed in comparable territories (Atlas). The 16-month MArch produces site-specific design thesis projects that work as an operative test bed to inform the Atlas and Manual of territorial formations. Students? work is based on a combination of team-based studio, workshop and seminar courses. At the end of September (MSc) and January (MArch) the projects are presented to a panel of distinguish visiting critics in order to finalise the design thesis in the form of a book.</p><br/><p><em>* Please note that for the 2015/16 academic year the degree of this programme will change to a 12-month MSc and a 16-month MArch in Landscape Urbanism, subject to approval and validation by The Open University.</em></p><br/><p>If you wish to apply please follow the link below which will guide you through the process.</p><br/><p><a rel='nofollow nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/GRADUATE/?name=landscapeurbanism'>http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/GRADUATE/?name=landscapeurbanism</a>— at <a data-hovercard='/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=139320099442004&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%7D' data-ft='"tn":"P"' href='https://www.facebook.com/ArchitecturalAssociation?ref=stream'>Architectural Association School of Architecture</a>.</p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/aa-landscape-urbanism-becomes-march-16-months-msc-12-months/'>AA Landscape Urbanism becomes MArch (16 months) & MSc (12 months)</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-91934501723270469202014-10-17T05:18:00.001-07:002014-10-17T05:18:43.808-07:00The Riparian Land-Shaping Machine Issuu Publication<p>The Riparian Land-Shaping Machine is the design thesis of Josine Lambert and Eugenio Darin.<br/><br/>Abstract: Mountain landscapes have been subjected to a relentless conflict between conservative-picturesque attitudes and economic exploitation approaches. The project proposes a strategy that understands the river as a sediment management machine that choreographs newly manufactured riparian landscapes in order to put forward a decision-making mechanism to face the conflicting perspectives with existing social formations.</p><br/><p>Explore the full project <a target='_blank' href='http://issuu.com/aalandscapeurbanism/docs/aalu2014_the_riparian_land-shaping_' title='AA Landscape Urbanism 2013--14 The Riparian Land-Shaping Machine'>HERE</a></p><br/><p><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/josine_booklet_term2_Page_42.jpg'><img height='450' width='720' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/josine_booklet_term2_Page_42-720x450.jpg' alt='josine_booklet_term2_Page_42' class='alignnone size-large wp-image-1713'/></a></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/the-riparian-land-shaping-machine-issuu-publication/'>The Riparian Land-Shaping Machine Issuu Publication</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-43079629461151058552014-10-02T08:50:00.001-07:002014-10-02T08:50:09.034-07:00AA Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series on Geomorphology<p>All welcome to the AA Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series on Geomorphology 2014 starting next Tuesday 7th October at 14:00, Soft Room, Architectural Association:</p><br/><p>These lectures from experts in geomorphology will give an overview of existing methods and practices that describe the active processes shaping the landscape. These are intended to support the development and knowledge of the course in order to fabricate an understanding how these processes interact with human driven environments.</p><br/><p>Geomorphology and Landscapes<br/><br/>Andrew Goudie (Emeritus Professor of Geography at University of Oxford)<br/><br/>07 October 2014 14:00 PM<br/><br/>Soft Room<br/><br/>Architectural Association</p><br/><p>What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human activities. Examining what landscape is, and how we use a range of ideas and techniques to study it, Andrew Goudie a demonstrate how geomorphologists have built on classic methods pioneered by some great 19th century scientists to examine our Earth.</p><br/><p>The AA Landscape Urbanism is committed to develop a thorough research by design that explores landscape practices and territorial formations into alternatives for concrete realities and contexts and </p><br/><p><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Zaragoza.jpg'><img class='alignnone size-large wp-image-1752' height='450' width='720' alt='Zaragoza' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Zaragoza-720x450.jpg'/></a></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/aa-landscape-urbanism-lecture-series-on-geomorphology/'>AA Landscape Urbanism Lecture Series on Geomorphology</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-11148940860377566602014-06-17T04:15:00.001-07:002014-06-17T04:15:20.931-07:00AALU BOOK, Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis<p><b>AALU BOOK, Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis </b><b><br/></b><b>Launch Wednesday 18th June London</b></p><br/><p>Please join us for the launch of AA Landscape Urbanism Book,<i> ‘Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis’ </i>edited by Eva Castro, Alfredo Ramirez, Eduardo Rico and Douglas Spencer in the <a href='http://aabookshop.net/'>AA Bookshop</a> at 6.30pm on Wednesday 18th June 2014.<br/><i><br/></i><i> </i><i>Critical Territories records the current state of our practice, theory and teaching of Landscape Urbanism and its development in recent years. It describes the phases and processes through which we have arrived at a distinctive model of Landscape Urbanism and the movement, from academia to praxis, through which this has been achieved. To this end, Critical Territories opens with a series of contributions to the ongoing development of our theoretical perspectives before turning to elaborate, from within the academic framework of the Architectural Association, the work of our students and the agendas they have engaged with in Mexico, Sri Lanka, Dubai and China and the intensive workshops with which they have been involved in Europe. It then turns, finally, to the projects produced and realised by the Landscape Urbanist practice Groundlab, whose work both puts into practice our model of Landscape Urbanism and offers an opportunity to reflect upon its further development.</i></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/aalu-book-critical-territories-from-academia-to-praxis/'>AALU BOOK, Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis </a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-26022005982073239072014-06-06T08:52:00.001-07:002014-06-06T08:58:57.696-07:00AA LANDSCAPE URBANISM BOOK LAUNCHThe launch of the AA Landscape Urbanism ” Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis” at the AA Bookshop will be announced shortly:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">The
Landscape Urbanism MA at the Architectural Association is engaged with the idea
of landscapes as the milieu for the development of a practice at a territorial
scale. This practice is concerned on the one hand with the geomorphological
formations of landforms (Tectonic Grounds) and on the other with the actual
cultural, political and economic forces that drive and choreograph the social
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understanding of these concepts as the primeval material to work with, draws
knowledge and understanding from fields such as geomorphology and/or sociology,
and claims the seeds from where Landscape Urbanism recognises the engines
behind territorial production. Territory thus is understood as an assemblage of
manufactured landscapes that requires a multidisciplinary knowledge from
relevant fields, ever since it is shaped by a myriad of both physical and
social processes and dynamics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Ultimately
these territorial assemblages of land formations and tectonic grounds are
cultural productions derived from a constant and relentless human and natural
activity full of conflicts, struggles, alterations, and shifts, within or
outside legal or institutional frameworks. As such they become the result of
specific historical processes with political consequences, which lies at the
core of Landscape Urbanism territorial practice..."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Alfredo Ramirez , April 2014</span></div>
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The relation of human with nature often involves conflicts, particularly in wealthy countries where the carbon footprint continues to grow. The denser the population, the larger the impact on the natural landscape. The Netherlands for example, with a population density of almost 500 people/km2, has been turned into a completely artificial landscape.<br />
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Most of Europe’s original natural landscape has to some extent been affected by human interventions. Only the last decades – when significant damage has already been done – a consciousness about the importance of natural landscapes and their value for ecology grows. Fossil fuels get to an end some day and people start to exploit renewable natural sources.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Networks for “green energy” are being developed in different landscapes in Europe; o.a. solar energy in Southern countries and wind energy in the North. Renewable energy might sound as a “nature-friendly” alternative to the polluting fossil energy sources, but it has its drawbacks too. Renewable energy networks can have a negative impact on local ecologies and social territories. These networks can completely alter the landscape with many consequences. Mountain rivers are the source of Europe’s water and hydro-energy networks. Over time human interventions, in order to control and benefit from them, dramatically transformed these landscapes. One of the most significant interventions is the construction of hydropower dams, which contributes to a sustainable energy network, but at the same time physically, economically and socially affects the local territory. Which interventions can be justified, considering the impact they have on the riparian landscapes? Could a new transformation take place in order to integrate the various conflicting territories within one new landscape?</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Despite the disparity in national governmental policies, this issue is common to many European countries, as hydropower facilities have been constructed in all mountainous regions divided by national borders.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">The focus will lie on the Alps, as it contains the most densely developed hydropower network and comprises eight different countries Dams seriously influence the behaviour of streams and consequently cause the transformation of the riparian landscapes: they hold back sediments, which causes erosion downstream and the braiding of the river to disappear while provoking problems in its deposition in the reservoir. They also reduce the frequency of floods and their intensity in the valley, which is essential for riparian landscapes. </span></div>
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These territories are gaining an increasingly significant role within the implementation of the new European Green Infrastructure. (European Commission, Green Infrastructure – Enhancing Europe’s Natural Capital, 2013) The importance of riparian landscapes as infrastructural and productive areas asks for a careful approach of the water and sediment management, especially considering the effects of climate change; altering precipitation patterns and melting of glaciers influence the amount and the seasonal flow of water both in the short and long term. Reactivation of the riparian landscape is needed, not only to strengthen the ecological values of a green infrastructure, but also to generate possibilities and opportunities for surrounding territories within this green infrastructure.<br />
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Our Atlas represents the possibility of sand movement across Europe. Driven by the wind velocity and direction it shows how the landform could make a path, being forced by landscape geometry either stopped by current land uses. Sand dunes consist not only a fragile environment but also complex ecosystems in transition. Sand dunes stretch the most significant amount of the European coastline.<br />
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They develop wherever there is a suitable supply of sediment moved onshore by tide and they form diverse types of land formations. Their nature is movement, and any human management of dunes, like discontinuation of their flow goes against this nature. Most of the sand dunes environments in Europe are threatened by human activities. Urbanization together with ‘scientific’ ideas of human predominance and total control of natural habitats directly affected these environments starting from 19th century. For instance, recreational pressures have caused the destruction of dunes concerning the giant tourist facilities in the Mediterranean. </div>
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In the process, they have demolished many of the natural landscapes that attracted the visitor in the first place. Along with that, causes of high erosion of managed areas may lie in the management itself, as natural processes are hardly predictable and human decisions are not always following the landform evolution. In all European countries, attention is given to landscape preservation; however, policies and practices in the past have mainly been based on specific ecological and visual landscape qualities but not spatial and political elements of the territory. The conflict of men|dune relation may be in the nature of two – men, applying techniques to stop the dune, and dune which needs to shift and flow to continue it’s lifecycle. On the one hand nature conservations and re-habitation is of vital importance, but on the other hand the restoration of these dynamic drift sand ecosystems can produce land-use conflicts. The movement of sand can generate migration of the ownerships.<br />
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<a href="http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/european-sandways/">European Sandways</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-59178046367554502982014-03-27T10:13:00.001-07:002014-03-27T10:13:24.805-07:00End of term Review 28th March Architectural Association<p>AALU End of Term Review</p><br/><p>28th March 2014</p><br/><p>32 Bedfore Square, 2nd Floor Back</p><br/><p>Architectural Association</p><br/><p><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/maggia_geomorph_small_A0-02.jpg'><img height='450' width='720' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/maggia_geomorph_small_A0-02-720x450.jpg' alt='Print' class='alignnone size-large wp-image-1679'/></a></p><br/><p>With Judith Reiser, Independent Journalist, Urbanist and member of ISOCARP</p><br/><p>Gabriela Garcia de Cortzar, AA PHD candidate</p><br/><p>Constanza Madricardo, AA Landscape Urbanism,</p><br/><p>AALU continues to shape an European Atlas of Radical Cartographies. Work in progress will be presented by each of the teams working on different landforms around Europe and informed by its social formations. All welcomed.</p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/end-of-term-review-28th-march-architectural-association/'>End of term Review 28th March Architectural Association</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-8331837398066772092014-03-07T10:02:00.001-08:002014-03-07T10:02:40.568-08:00Critical Cartographies Lecture by Teresa Stoppani 20th March 2014<p>Critical Cartographies</p><br/><p>Teresa Stoppani , 20th March 2014, Soft Room, 6 PM</p><br/><h3>Architectural Association<i><br/></i><i><b/></i><i><b/></i></h3><br/><div dir='ltr'><br/>[M]apmaking conventions are based not only on a sensible view of the world but on themselves, on their own historical sense of what counts as a legitimate view of the world. As the geographer J. Wreford Watson writes, “The geography of the land is in the last resort the geography of the mind.”<br/><p align='right'>Catherine Ingraham, Architecture and the Burdens of Linearity, 1998.</p><br/><p align='right' style='text-align: left;'><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Simryn-Gill_Four-Atlases-of-the-World-and-One-of-Stars_2009.jpg'><img height='420' width='656' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Simryn-Gill_Four-Atlases-of-the-World-and-One-of-Stars_2009.jpg' alt='Simryn Gill_Four Atlases of the World and One of Stars_2009' class='alignnone size-full wp-image-1595'/></a></p><br/> <p>The use of the grid in mapmaking offers a rational instrument that is based on conventions in order to fix and to communicate information. At the same time the cartographic grid produces an intentional opacity that can reveal the “project” of mapmaking, otherwise concealed in its apparently objective and impartial presentation. From the impossible bird’s eye views of cities presented as city portraits, to the measured space of the map, the conventions and the “lies” of cartographic representation reveal that the map is in fact a project, that is, the production of a never-neutral critical space. Always partial, mapmaking establishes a relation of difference and of excess with the territory that it re-presents, thus becoming a generative system that is able to produce and incorporate those interpretations, intentionality and transformations that characterize the process of the project. Examples, stories and images drawn from architecture and the visual arts accompany this exploration of critical cartographies.</p><br/></div><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/critical-cartographies-lecture-by-teresa-stoppani-20th-march-2014/'>Critical Cartographies Lecture by Teresa Stoppani 20th March 2014</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-67324194916155655932014-03-07T08:56:00.001-08:002014-03-07T08:56:58.488-08:00AA Landscape Urbanism New Website<p>We are launching our new AA Landscape Urbanism website. It contains the new agenda “A Pan-European Atlas of Radical Cartographies” including the programme research developed over the last years as well as work by current students:</p><br/><p><a rel='nofollow nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/'>http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/</a></p><br/><p> </p><br/><p><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/6de36fd0258fc0ef97bfb7e7fca716ed.jpg'><img height='450' width='720' src='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/6de36fd0258fc0ef97bfb7e7fca716ed-720x450.jpg' alt='j+e_sandbars_energy_A0_1' class='alignnone size-large wp-image-959'/></a></p><br/><p>It also works as an AALU online resource and centralised all the social networks the programme is constantly updating. Have a look and please follow us on: Facebook,Twitter, Issuu, Blogger<br/><br/>For the latest news, reviews, events, students thesis and articles and publications by staff and students.</p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/aa-landscape-urbanism-new-website/'>AA Landscape Urbanism New Website</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-16185466176690848852014-03-06T04:02:00.001-08:002014-03-06T04:02:08.964-08:00India's Infrastructural Metropolitanism 2012-2013<h3>PROTOTYPICAL URBANITIES: India’s Infrastructural Metropolitanism</h3><br/><p> </p><br/><p>India’s urban population explosion in the last few years has propelled the emergence of a conflicted/chaotic rapid urbanisation in the subcontinent as well as the implementation of major civil works intending to cope with a growth which needs to be founded both on the creativity of its entrepreneurs, but also on the grounds of its spatial infrastructures.</p><br/><p>Landscape Urbanism will engage both critically and opportunistically with the newly planned Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor starting from the North region close to New Delhi. We shall explore the generation of ‘proto-strategies’ for new large-scale agglomerations as a means of critically addressing the phenomena of mass-produced cities. The students will be asked to identify the conditions for their own projects in such a way that they can thread spatial, social and environmental discourses linked simultaneously to the large scale government led idea and the localised response emerging from the found territorial conditions. The whole group of student projects shall conform an alternative mode of spatial development, where the character of transnational infrastructures is used to ground and root a socio-technical alternative for a brand new urban nature.</p><br/><p>Check these projects: <a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/the-rural-nexus/'>THE RURAL NEXUS</a>, <a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/tourist-urban-scape/'>TOURIST URBANSCAPE</a></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/indias-infrastructural-metropolitanism-2012-2013/'>India's Infrastructural Metropolitanism 2012-2013</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-11767390548677217042014-03-06T03:53:00.001-08:002014-03-06T03:53:37.137-08:00Beijing Metropolitan Area 2011-2012<p>PROTOTYPICAL URBANITIES: <i>Towards an Interstitial Ecology</i></p><br/><p> </p><br/><p>China’s economic boom, combined with migration from the countryside to the cities, is boosting a high-speed urbanism that produces new cities in the shortest imaginable time and is completely changing the faces of the older towns. This directional urbanisation, propelled from within the coastal zones into the countryside, has brought even the smallest villages face to face with the phenomena of globalisation and its foreign capital and generic architecture.</p><br/><p> </p><br/><p>Building upon a body of research established over the past four years of work in this field, LU has maintained its focus on China’s ambitions to build four hundred new cities by the year 2020 — with 12 million people expected to move from rural to urban locations — as the basis for its brief. Far from resisting this development, we have engaged opportunistically with the generation of ‘proto-strategies’ for new large-scale agglomerations as a means of critically addressing the phenomena of mass-produced urban sprawl. Our test-bed for this year has been the urban agglomerations around Beijing metropolitan area.</p><br/><p> </p><br/><p>Check these projects:</p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/beijing-metropolitan-area-2011-2012/'>Beijing Metropolitan Area 2011-2012</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-6367270907363195552014-03-06T03:45:00.001-08:002014-03-06T03:45:05.184-08:00Yan Tse River Delta 2009-2010<p>AGENDA Building Building upon a body of research established over the previous two years of work in this field, AALU maintained its focus on China’s ambitions to build four hundred new cities by the year 2020 — with 12 million people expected to move from rural to urban locations — as the basis for its brief. Far from resisting this development, AALU engaged opportunistically with the generation of ‘proto-strategies’ for new large-scale agglomerations as a means of critically addressing the phenomena of mass-produced urban sprawl. Our test-bed was the urban agglomerations of the Yangtze River Delta — including Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Ningbo — with students focusing on the emergence of three benchmark issues in this area:</p><br/><p>• Metabolic Rurbanism: the emergence of ‘desakota’ (urban villages) in which urban and rural processes of land use are combined, and the potentials it presents for the origin of industrial ecologies.<br/><br/>• Tactical Resistance: where generic, top-down masterplanning collides with informally developed urban cores, the potential to locate the fault lines of this dynamic as a space from which a tactical urbanism that is qualitatively informed and territorially specific, might be produced.<br/><br/>• Material Identities: the inadequacy of attempts to provide new urban settlements with an instant ‘identity’, through the application of either vernacular or western styles of building, in the context of ‘post-traditional’ urbanization.</p><br/><p>Check these Projects: <a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/dredging-identity/'>Dredging Identity</a>, <a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/pro-multiplicity/'>Pro Multiplicity</a></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/yan-tse-river-delta-2009-2010/'>Yan Tse River Delta 2009-2010</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-76005191959187275362014-03-06T03:37:00.001-08:002014-03-06T03:37:54.770-08:00Pearl River Deltal II 2008-2009<p>Building on previous year’s body of research, LU took again China’s ambition to build 400 new cities by 2020 as the basis for its brief. According to this plan, 20 new cities are to be built each year to contain the huge numbers of people – around 12 million annually – who are leaving the countryside for urban areas. Far from resisting this development, we opportunistically generated ‘proto-strategies’ for new large-scale agglomerations as a means of critically addressing the phenomenon of mass-produced urban sprawl. Our test bed was the Pearl River Delta, where students focused on the emergence of four benchmark conditions identified by our previous research: the underlying dysfunction and creative potential of industrial ecologies in the rapidly urbanising rural hinterland; the rapid deindustrialisation and disintegration of second-cycle city cores; the emerging resistance of traditional and informally grown urban cores to top-down planning procedures; and the terms by which a new sprawling state engages with existing agricultural land. We operated critically, seeking to produce alternative templates of urbanisation based on strategies that stemmed from embryonic processes seeking the integration of cultural tradition, regional ecological systems and economic globalisation.</p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/pearl-river-deltal-ii-2008-2009/'>Pearl River Deltal II 2008-2009</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589248102158321520.post-17368165704426626972014-03-06T03:31:00.001-08:002014-03-06T03:31:49.614-08:00Pearl River Delta 2007-2008<p>AGENDA China’s economic boom, combined with migration from the rural areas, is fuelling a high-speed urbanism that is producing new cities in the shortest imaginable time and completely changing the face and character of the country’s older towns.<br/><br/>This directional urbanisation, propelled from within the coastal zones into the countryside, has brought even the smallest villages face to face with the phenomena of globalisation, foreign capital and generic architecture. At the same time, the pace and scale of development, particularly in the mega-cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Wuhan, has highlighted the interrelated problems of mass migration, pollution and the loss of arable land. The lack of an overarching urbanisation policy means that there are no mechanisms of negotiation between economic interests, cultural traditions, developmental pressures and existing ecologies. At a larger scale, China risks seeing its urban identity swamped by a generic pattern of indiscriminate urban sprawl.<br/><br/>400 NEW CITIES In 2000 the former civil affairs minister, Doje Cering, formulated a plan to build 400 new cities by the year 2020, to accommodate the migration from the countryside into urban conglomerations. According to this plan, 20 new cities need to be established each year. LU took this formulation as the framework for the year’s research, testing the applicability of our methodology to the limit, then adjusting and reformulating it. The resulting work generated ‘protostrategies’ for new large-scale agglomerations as a way of critically addressing the phenomenon of mass-produced sprawl urbanisation. The test-bed for the year’s project was Pingshan and the brief was the documentation recently provided by Chinese planning authorities, requesting its change of status from county to a new city. We operated critically, seeking to produce alternative templates of urbanisation based on strategies that stemmed from embryonic processes seeking the integration of cultural tradition, regional ecological systems and economic globalisation.</p><br/><p>Check these Projects: <a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/rurbanscape/'>RURBAN GROWTH</a>, <a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/intercopping-city/'>INTERCROPPING CITY</a></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://landscapeurbanism.aaschool.ac.uk/research/pearl-river-delta-2007-2008/'>Pearl River Delta 2007-2008</a>Alfredo Ramirezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02271185355180496498noreply@blogger.com