Next Meeting Topic: Future Communities
Come and hear Gary Marshall,
Local Landscape Architect and Urban Designer speak about
Inspirational, International City Designs -inspire the future of Grey Lynn
Gary presented this talk at Waitakere City Conference – WICI (Waitakere – Inform, Challenge, Inspire), August 2008. The brief he was given was to ‘Present an Inspiring Account of the Future City’.
The resulting presentation pulls together a range of examples of ‘sustainable design ideas and interventions’ and includes both New Zealand and international examples. It is in four parts – Recover, Create, Adapt, Integrate –
Here is an extract from the introduction -
Gary will be presenting a variety of projects, both real and imaged through four ‘lenses’ that are useful to understanding the nature of design in the contemporary city.
They are – Recover, Create, Adapt, and Integrate.
- Recover – Implies the reappearance into our cultural sphere and built environment ideas and practices that have been neglected or approached with indifference in recent times;
- Create – Looks at how human ingenuity and innovation can harness art, science, and technology to overcome some of the issues and challenges we face today;
- Adapt – Is concerned with how we creatively respond to change, and how we can design and retrofit our cities with technologies and innovations, both old and new; and
- Integrate – Investigates how all the pieces of the city fit together and how they interact with one another.
The presentation is very visual – Gary has about 80 slides of some pretty ‘weird and wonderful’ ideas he has come across.
To find out more of this topic, take a look at some of these sites:
http://urbanpalimpsest.blogspot.com/
http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/
http://landscapeandurbanism.blogspot.com/
which shows you how city design is important for people to be able to live with less energy.
Monday 9th Feb, 7.30 pm
Venue: Grey Lynn Community Centre – 210 Richmond Rd
