The Larder Landscape: Foraging for New Material Ecologies

The Larder Landscape is located in the Paper Garden [South London], the home of Global Generation, a group of teenagers central to the project. Concerned with the unethical and unsustainable material practices of landscape archiecture construction, the project is based on creating spaces through found, borrowed and donated objects from around the site. The design is focused on process rather than form, expressed in the macro and micro landscape moments created by the local community of teenagers from the Global Generation working with a landscape architect in residence. The landscape architect lives and works on site to facilitate the transformation of the Paper Garden. The student / community process so far has involved [1] digging up clay, [2] collecting materials from the area, [3] creating a pit-kiln and [4] making objects. The objects produced inspired a design proposal of making a form of terrazzo from local materials - and education, gathering, working, reusing and recyling. Do we really know where our landscape materials come from and what are the ethical and environmental impacts of them? The Larder Landscape tries to explore some of these questions in the quest for new material ecologies. 

  < The studio brief was focused on designing for direct action to advance ecological justice and urban equity >