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Testing-Ground :: landscapes, cities and territories testing-ground is a design research journal focusing on the interrelations which define landscapes,

The journal is a site of experimentation, a platform to critique established urban theory and a place to investigate emerging architectural, political and ecological concepts. testing-ground embraces diverse methodological approaches, from ethnographic field observations to speculative design proposals, as a foundation for unpredictable, unstable and unfinished conversations. testing-ground is published by the Advanced Landscape and Urbanism research group at the University of Greenwich, London.

TESTING-GROUNDYOUTHHOOD #03Insights from our contributor of YOUTHHOOD +++“Older people are far more likely to participa...
13/09/2021

TESTING-GROUND
YOUTHHOOD #03
Insights from our contributor of YOUTHHOOD

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“Older people are far more likely to participate in the local decision-making processes that shape our neighbourhoods and cities. How often do we see young people attending planning committees, for instance?”

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TESTING-GROUNDYOUTHHOOD #02Insights from our contributor of YOUTHHOOD+++“Designing young people out of space can lead t...
09/08/2021

TESTING-GROUND
YOUTHHOOD #02
Insights from our contributor of YOUTHHOOD

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“Designing young people out of space can lead to a sense of alienation and place-lessness, potentially inhibiting their identity formation…”

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TESTING-GROUNDYOUTHHOOD #01Insights from our youngest contributor of YOUTHHOOD +++“You are the future”.“I always find t...
02/08/2021

TESTING-GROUND
YOUTHHOOD #01
Insights from our youngest contributor of YOUTHHOOD

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“You are the future”.
“I always find that quote a bit cringe-worthy because we’re not really. We’re already citizens…”

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TESTING-GROUNDISSUE 03: YOUTHHOOD+++This issue of Testing-Ground – Youthhood seeks to examine worlds through youthful ey...
30/07/2021

TESTING-GROUND
ISSUE 03: YOUTHHOOD

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This issue of Testing-Ground – Youthhood seeks to examine worlds through youthful eyes, make evident young ambitions, and empower younger people to take on the design of their cities and landscapes.

Young people are founding movements against injustices. Teenagers are lobbying their politicians to add climate change to the curriculum. Children are walking out on classes to participate in demonstrations and strikes. There is increasing concern that global elders have failed to address – and in many cases exacerbated – social, economic, and ecological inequities. Urgent, uninhibited, and technically proficient – you can’t fool the children of the revolution. When it comes to the creation of environmentally just and hopeful worlds, young people are proving their worth and the future is in their hands … or is it?

Young people are significantly underrepresented in many societies. Studies have indicated that by 2030, under 18s will make up around 60% of the global urban population, but many democracies continue to disproportionately represent the priorities of older people. Those who will inevitably be most affected by decisions being made about the future of cities lack representation and agency. Recent events have already exposed issues disproportionately facing urban environments, forcing rapid changes to how we use and perceive public space.

We must look for innovative, radical solutions from those we’re designing for. What can we learn from their visions of the future?

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Thank you for everyone who submitted their abstracts to our newest issue 03: YOUTHHOOD.Editing is in process, we’re look...
16/07/2021

Thank you for everyone who submitted their abstracts to our newest issue 03: YOUTHHOOD.

Editing is in process, we’re looking forward to reading all fantastic work in relation to our theme YOUTHHOOD

TESTING-GROUNDLandscapes, Cities and Territories+++TESTING-GROUND is focused on research, experimentation and design of ...
14/07/2021

TESTING-GROUND
Landscapes, Cities and Territories

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TESTING-GROUND is focused on research, experimentation and design of landscapes, cities and territories. It provides a platform for critiquing established theories and exploring emerging ideas across politics, ecologies and design. Each issue addresses challenges faced by our inhabited landscapes, calling on all who interact with our shared spaces to examine how theories and practices may be realised through new approaches and methods. TESTING-GROUND aims to engage with questions of landscape with the objective of widening critical discourse.

03/08/2016

A new design and research journal has been launched at the University of Greenwich.
The new journal, TESTING-GROUND, focuses on research, experimentation and design of landscapes, cities and territories. It provides a platform to critique established urban theories and a place to investigate emerging architectural, political and ecological concepts. Ed Wall, Academic Leader Landscape at University of Greenwich, who initiated the journal with a research grant from the university, explains:

“The idea of the journal is to feature completed projects, speculative ideas and even incomplete works which contribute to discourses around landscapes, cities and territories. The journal provides a platform for exploring questions about how we design and think about cities. We are delighted to have been supported by individuals and organisations, such as Finn Williams (Common Office), Clare Page and Harry Richardson (Committee) and Austin Brown (Arup), and in our first issue to include works by Greenwich students alongside notable artists such as Mierle Laderman Ukeles.”

This first issue, TRAJECTORIES, began with a workshop exploring issues around urban development in Deptford, London and brought together a group of artists, landscape architects, designers, sociologists and ecologists. Articles consider the trajectories of sites through time, investigate patterns of change and explore how these configurations could be redirected in the future. Contributors include: Dominique Cheng, Bob Bagley and Roo Angell, Matthew Skjonsberg, Aditya Barve, Sue Ball & Suzanne O’Connell, Thomas Mical, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Tim Waterman, John-Joseph Watters and Ed Wall.

The journal is available at bookshops in London and online.

TESTING-GROUND is published by the Advanced Landscape and Urbanism research group in the Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich, London. The Advanced Landscape and Urbanism research group is a platform for design and research of cities and landscape. The group encourages new approaches to research and design experimentation, which investigate the everyday and the extraordinary spaces, environments and lives of our cities.

Contact: Ed Wall, [email protected] / +44(0)7941 754045

TESTING-GROUND 01 trajectories - currently being published, watch this space for how to get hold of a copy.
09/06/2016

TESTING-GROUND 01 trajectories - currently being published, watch this space for how to get hold of a copy.

Call for submissions
16/09/2015

Call for submissions

An exhibition of design works by the MA Landscape Architecture and MSc Advanced Landscape and Urbanism graduates.The des...
16/09/2015

An exhibition of design works by the MA Landscape Architecture and MSc Advanced Landscape and Urbanism graduates.

The design works of the Advanced Landscape Studio (MALA / MScALU) is focused on site-based actions, interventions and infrastructures between Greenwich and Woolwich. Projects have investigated the infrastructures of this South-East London landscape to speculate on inventive, spatial and public interventions. Students researched the social and material interactions which have constituted sites and infrastructures to speculate on new urban landscape futures. In particular, projects enquire how small creative actions can inform, disrupt and find presence within large infrastructures.

15/09/2015

ISSUE 1: trajectories

Call for submissions

testing-ground journal welcomes submissions for its inaugural issue exploring the trajectories of landscapes, sites and cities.

In the opening essay of his book Discovering the Vernacular Landscape, J.B. Jackson describes landscape as ‘a space deliberately created to deliberately speed up or slow down the process of nature’ (1984:8). This conception of landscape suggests that sites have a trajectory and a momentum which we can study and creatively engage with.

The first issue of the testing-ground journal will include exploratory articles, experimental projects, design speculations and research methodologies. Submissions will consider the trajectories of sites through time, investigate patterns of change and explore how these configurations could be redirected in the future. Submissions for the first issue on trajectories will discuss the flows of materials and people which intertwine to form urban spaces and enquire how small actions can contribute to extraordinary change.

Submissions as essays/features between 500 and 3500 words are welcomed from architects, landscape architects, urban designers, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and ecologists. The deadline for submissions is Monday 19 October, 2015.

Submission Requirements:

testing-ground journal welcomes the submission of exploratory articles, experimental projects, design speculations and research methodologies. These can be in two formats:

Visual essays: submissions should be between 500 and 1000 words accompanied by 5- 15 images

Feature articles: submissions should range from 1500 to 3500 words accompanied by 5 images

All text submissions should be in Microsoft Word format with all citations clearly indicated as end-notes according to the Harvard Referencing Manual

All images should be in CMYK, JPG format, 300dpi and a minimum of 200mm in width

Authors are required to obtain or hold the necessary copyright permissions for all images and material published

When submitting work for the journal authors should indicate if their article has been previously published

Please include with your submission a short biography between 100 and 150 words

Email submissions or questions to: [email protected]

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