Maintenance – Landscape Architecture Platform | Landezine https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Sat, 18 Oct 2025 07:10:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Krater Collective Crafts Biodiversity by Grazing Hands https://landezine.com/krater-collective-crafts-biodiversity-by-grazing-hands/ https://landezine.com/krater-collective-crafts-biodiversity-by-grazing-hands/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:19:34 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125638 The Krater Collective is a group of transdisciplinary artists who have decided to transform their professions, studios and working conditions in order to act as advocates for a self-determined ecosystem in an abandoned construction pit in Ljubljana. In Crafting Biodiversity, they expand over their fenced-off domain.]]> https://landezine.com/krater-collective-crafts-biodiversity-by-grazing-hands/feed/ 0 Dr. Giovanni Aloi: The Lawn – Nothing to do With Nature https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/ https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:15:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122624 In the U.S., lawns cover nearly 2 percent of the land surface and, as researcher Cristina Milesi revealed using satellite data, “could be considered the single largest irrigated crop in America”—their total area is three times larger than that of irrigated cornfields. The infatuation with lawns runs so deep that, in some cases, failing to […]]]> https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/feed/ 1 25 – 28 February / NSL Colloquium: Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes https://landezine.com/25-28-february-nsl-colloquium-beyond-maintenance-responsive-practices-for-changing-landscapes/ https://landezine.com/25-28-february-nsl-colloquium-beyond-maintenance-responsive-practices-for-changing-landscapes/#respond Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:48:54 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116117 The colloquium will investigate the relationship between the design and maintenance of living systems, seeking to cultivate practices, terminology, and theoretical insights into approaches that attempt to maintain otherwise. About The current separation between landscape design and landscape maintenance is no longer tenable. Unpredictable weather patterns and dwindling water supplies intersect with cuts to municipal […]]]> https://landezine.com/25-28-february-nsl-colloquium-beyond-maintenance-responsive-practices-for-changing-landscapes/feed/ 0 Wild Playgrounds https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/ https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:31:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112385 Almost every park needs a playground area and children’s playgrounds are one of the toughest typologies to design. The equipment available is either ugly or beyond budget, especially in the public realm. Then the programme is repetitive — poles, slides, swings, climbing walls, sandpits. For the designer to cover the developmental needs of all ages […]]]> https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/feed/ 2 8 November / NSL Collquium Open Call: Beyond Maintenance https://landezine.com/8-november-nsl-collquium-open-call-beyond-maintenance/ https://landezine.com/8-november-nsl-collquium-open-call-beyond-maintenance/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:43:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111308 The 2025 Colloquium by Network City and Landscape, NSL, titled “Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes,” will be held at ETH Zürich from February 26-28, 2025, under the invitation of Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard. The event aims to explore the integration of landscape design and maintenance in response to evolving environmental and social challenges. With […]]]> https://landezine.com/8-november-nsl-collquium-open-call-beyond-maintenance/feed/ 0 Sh*tscapes – 100 Mistakes in Landscape Architecture https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/#respond Fri, 03 May 2024 13:02:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106651 Sh*tscapes is a 160-page book by London-based landscape architects Vladimir Guculak and Paul Bourel. They are also founders of studio gb, landscape architecture and design studio focused on the integration of nature into the city.]]> https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0