marc garrett
2014-09-23 09:28:44 UTC
"Making Belief ? Public Imaginaries and New Eutopias" with landscape
architect Tim Waterman.
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Room 106, 230 College Street
Part of Alissa North's MLA Thesis Prep course
All MLA, MArch and MUD students are welcome to attend
Tim Waterman, beginning with gastronomy and landscape, and through
analysis of taste and media apparatuses of tastemaking, examines our
urban future imaginaries to discuss how new beliefs can be nurtured that
bring us back to the quest for eutopia. Imagination in design process
has agency in the larger construction of public imaginaries as forces
for change in politics, culture, and society, and Waterman will propose
ways for designers to wield this power.
Tim Waterman is a landscape architect, urbanist, and critic whose
philosophy is informed by an eclectic past that includes community and
political activism, owning a restaurant, and singing for a band that
twice shared a stage with Nirvana. He believes that a sustainable future
can?t just be earnest and worthy, it has to be a little bit delicious
and a little bit rock and roll, too. He teaches at the Writtle School of
Design in Essex and serves as a thesis tutor at the Bartlett. He is
honorary editor of Landscape: The Journal of the Landscape Institute and
author of Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture and, with Ed Wall,
Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design.
http://go.shr.lc/XSvj2x
architect Tim Waterman.
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Room 106, 230 College Street
Part of Alissa North's MLA Thesis Prep course
All MLA, MArch and MUD students are welcome to attend
Tim Waterman, beginning with gastronomy and landscape, and through
analysis of taste and media apparatuses of tastemaking, examines our
urban future imaginaries to discuss how new beliefs can be nurtured that
bring us back to the quest for eutopia. Imagination in design process
has agency in the larger construction of public imaginaries as forces
for change in politics, culture, and society, and Waterman will propose
ways for designers to wield this power.
Tim Waterman is a landscape architect, urbanist, and critic whose
philosophy is informed by an eclectic past that includes community and
political activism, owning a restaurant, and singing for a band that
twice shared a stage with Nirvana. He believes that a sustainable future
can?t just be earnest and worthy, it has to be a little bit delicious
and a little bit rock and roll, too. He teaches at the Writtle School of
Design in Essex and serves as a thesis tutor at the Bartlett. He is
honorary editor of Landscape: The Journal of the Landscape Institute and
author of Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture and, with Ed Wall,
Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design.
http://go.shr.lc/XSvj2x