MA/MLA Studio 5 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Led by Barbara Campbell-Lange, Johanna Just and Agostino Nickl, 2020/21
Under the theme Onwards!, Studio 5 encourages participants to take a radical and speculative approach to the lived environment: seeking new design approaches towards sustainability, carbon sequestration and multispecies coexistence. This year’s brief No-Man’s-Land? explores the potential of so-called ‘wastelands’ as incubators for regenerative and integrative landscapes for human as well as non-human users. We will approach this complex journey in a creative and playful manner using methodologies from strategic and speculative design, but also borrowing from scientific research, the social sciences and the arts to establish innovative landscape design practices. In Studio 5, students are encouraged to follow their own curiosities, to invent and experiment with their own design methodologies, tools and processes for approaching ‘wicked problems’ and ‘staying with trouble’ in a playful and imaginative way. Despite being physically distant, we will collectively nurture a lively studio culture and community, teeming with dialogue and exchange.
Follow @studio_onwards – Image: Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Left Panel, Detail), 1490-1510.
