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TOPOTYPES: ground as design material

RMIT Landscape Architecture_ Lecture series_2008

Public Lecture

TOPOTYPES: ground as design material

Thierry kandjee & Sebastien Penfornis, Taktyk(LA+Urbanism)(www.taktyk.net )

Tuesday August 12th @ 7.30 pm

 

 

RMIT University Melbourne

360 Swanston Street, Building 8, Level 11,

Lecture theatre 8.11.68

Drinks before the lecture @ 6.30pm

ALL WELCOME!

 

How can landscape architects engage with the contemporary city and react upon the challenging task of climate change?

‘Topotypes: ground as design material’ is a current design research which focuses on landscape as urban strategy through manipulation of the earth and the redefinition of its resources. Ground and water works engage into speculative design processes and scenarios of territorial transformations. It acknowledges landscape as primarily being both infrastructural and transitional.

The lecture will present design entries that explore our fascination for water territories from large scale European competition entry to ongoing strategic plans between Scandinavia and north Africa.

TAKTYK [landscape + urbanism](www.taktyk.net ),is a young European design network (Rotterdam, Bruxelles, Barcelona) based in Paris. Taktyk combines projects under construction, researches, teaching, in the field of landscape as urbanism Our field of operation is the metropolitan condition, from diff use to compact urbanity.Tactical approaches from small to large scale operation introduce minimal set of actions, that produce reactive processes and forms of transformations. Taktyk is currently running an intensive studio at RMIT, speculating on the future of Bellarine Peninsula.

Postscript;

RMIT Landscape Architecture Alumni