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Award for Research and Communication in Landscape Architecture
Special
Jury Citation for Collaborative Student-Professional Research
MOVED TO DESIGN
Landscape Architects: Stutterheim/Anderson
Landscape Architecture in association with RMIT
University, Melbourne and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
The SAALA project, resulting in the publication of
student-led research, extends a futuristic but well grounded outlook to
the challenge of sea-level rise on some coastal communities of Melbourne
and Wellington. Through representing well researched case studies, it
successfully manages to undertake highly crucial and complex engagements
between climate change and resulting “sea-level rise”, and a range of site
specific design responses. Each response demonstrated a clear
understanding of the problem, with interdisciplinary support and
scientific data enabling the designers to investigate more thoroughly the
technical and pragmatic aspects of their responses.
The book “Moved to Design” is a collection of these
responses. It evidences the importance of establishing a clear and deep
seated linkage between science and design. The design solutions form
their own creative and innovative language providing an effective response
to socio-ecological debates of international importance. The designs
identify that the sea level rises might result in shifting the future
focus of landscape design and planning.
It is an international rarity that projects arising from
design schools have direct relevance to current professional practice. The
book illustrates a range of design responses that provide unparalleled
opportunity to open informed discussion on the important issue of sea
level rise.
The SAALA
project may be considered a blueprint in identifying and restructuring
landscape architecture’s commitment to natural and cultural landscapes
over the coming decades. The involvement of landscape architects could
substantially change the nature and variables of design propositions
through approaches which would examine and manage a consistent and
responsive dialectic with the different effects of climate change. It
advances the recognition
of landscape architecture as a socially and ecologically responsible
profession.
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