London Metropolitan University 2011
Unit 6, In-between City
EdgeLands: Hybrid Landscapes and Urban Villages
Maurice Mitchell, Francesca Pont, Bo Tang, Stefanie Rhodes, Crystal Whittaker and Julia King
Suspicious of the tendency of strategic and large-scale policy planning to distil out rich but fragile local interactions, the studio encourages students to work outwards from the observed fragment of lived experience (the moment), i.e. from the bottom up. The studio aims to explore how the urban landscape is inhabited, made and remade through personal and collective acts events, memories, experiences. It cuts through the surface to expose the undercurrent of silent issues that constitute the everyday.