PRESENTATION Date: Wednesday 26/10/2016 6pm to 8pm Title: Weaponised Landscapes: Mapping ‘the Jungle’ – research seminar at Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), University of Westminster Description: Anushka Athique, Jens Haendeler and Alex Ioannou of landscape research design collective PNEVMA [and recent MA Landscape Architecture graduates at the university of Greenwich] have carried out
MAPPING THE ‘JUNGLE’: A Critical Socio-spatial Analysis Seeking to Understand Formal and Informal Migrant Settlements in Northern France
PROJECT IN PROGRESS This workshop aims to look at the formal and informal migrant camps of Calais and Grande-Synthe through the lens of landscape. First by tracing and documenting the settlements’ historic development and then by revealing and mapping their socio-economic flows a well as the endo- and exogenic forces forming their architectural form. We will explore
‘INTERTIDAL LIVING RIVER WALLS’: Mitigating the Effects of Urbanization in London
PROJECT IN PROGRESS Jens Ruben Haendeler and Alex John Ioannou have been awarded a Whole Earth Fellowship in 2015, granting them funds in order to develop a prototype of their intertidal living river wall panel in order to mitigate the negative effects of urbanisation onto river systems. The prototype has been exhibited in the Siemens
REALISING SIGNIFICANCE IN A ‘DEAD ZONE’: A Unifying Investigatory Study and a Propelling Design Workshop in a Divided Island
PROJECT IN THE BOOKS The UN Buffer Zone is a human creation with a ‘complex system’ of elements. The workshop will try to understand the historical events which were responsible for the construction of a long narrative of division on the landscape which has led to recorded separation on maps and to poignant collective perspectives
‘A CONVERSATION ABOUT EVERYDAY SPACE’: with Deptford as a Case Study
BOOK This book has its origins in conversations between Jens Haendeler and Alex Ioannou. They have regularly sat, with cups of coffee in hand, asking each other their opinions of the space in which they found themselves. One opening question would lead them down a rabbit hole of thoughts, ideas and queries which quite often
LE:NOTRE INSTITUTE: ‘The Akamas Landscape Between Science and Myth’
COMPETITION As a collaborative pitch PNEVMA, along with the ecological expertise of Louise Ioannou, entered the LE:NOTRE Student Competition 2016. The intervention, ‘Landscape of Constellations’, intended to make existing and ongoing narratives, within both the landscape and the sky-scape, intelligible. Through the inclusion of minimal elements of design form, along the transect, an interpretation is