You’ve come ashore. Welcome. I want this to read like a treasure map (to be displayed when found). A horticultural arm of creativity beyond maintenance exploring themes of overgrown, taste, poetics, common and rarities, bulk, native, non native and that linguistical hoo ha. I want cultivated spaces to have life long after us these designed space is only a small moment in time. So how do we design this transition and visualise these transitions. What kinks in the wood can we kneed, which species are set to remain, what influence we have a varying scales.
What I offer
A bloody good set of secateurs and an awry eye. 30 years (I started early) of potted planted pruned material I know the colour of a Mahonia root the position of a Eremus lily but mostly I offer... A vision to craft a garden with growth aplenty I’ll use your garden to experiment in pereferably on a regular basis, like every week so you’ll need a big garden. I figure I only need a handful of spaces needed to develop over a long long time (the Treasure map metephor doesn’t work otherwise). We will learn together win together fail together and never spray a darn insect killer ever again.
Social Justice
Landscape Architecture, Social Justice
Kink Line
2020
Leeds
Mapping of the 24 Leeds to establish a network of night time industries that intersect with each other creating rhythms of safety. The timed highlight of the city draws a kinked line connecting those marginal communities with the needs of the expanding metropolitan area. An inverted base map proposes fixed rail tram system that harks back to previous modes of transport now used successfully in neighbouring cities taking a more environmental approach to city planning.
The aim is to celebrate Leeds and its fractious past and to bring about an unashamedly visual street performance that the places Leeds at the forefront of European innovation and craft.
Leeds
2020
2020
Leeds
Mapping of the 24 Leeds to establish a network of night time industries that intersect with each other creating rhythms of safety. The timed highlight of the city draws a kinked line connecting those marginal communities with the needs of the expanding metropolitan area. An inverted base map proposes fixed rail tram system that harks back to previous modes of transport now used successfully in neighbouring cities taking a more environmental approach to city planning.
The aim is to celebrate Leeds and its fractious past and to bring about an unashamedly visual street performance that the places Leeds at the forefront of European innovation and craft.
Leeds
2020
