May was a very busy month, so there's lots to cover in this month's Landscape Blog, starting with the new exhibition profile pic, featuring the competition winning image by BA (Hons) Art and the Environment student Claire Jebbitt.
Building the WUC Design Degree Show
Every year the students build their exhibition with the help of Writtle Design technician Steve Jeyes. The studio is converted into an exhibition space just a few days before the Private View.
Here you can see the hard-working LAGD students (and Steve) taking a short rest for a photo op, with the final stages of the exhibition build well
underway.
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WUC Design Degree Show Launches!
The Writtle University College Design
Degree Show 2022 opened at 5pm on Wednesday 11th May.
The exhibition featured 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate
Art and the Environment students, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students
of Landscape Architecture & Garden Design, and it highlighted the breadth of skill and creativity from our amazing students.
Private View: Wednesday 11th May, 17:00-21:00
Public Opening: Thursday 12th – Sunday 15th May, 11:00-17:00
Virtual Exhibition Launch: Wednesday 25th May, from 12:00
(BST/UTC+1)
Virtual Exhibition website: http://www.wuc-designshow.co.uk
#WUCshow2022 #Writtle #DegreeShow #Art #Design #Environment
#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #Degree #Masters #Exhibition
Essex Gardens Trust
People's Choice Award 2022
The Essex Gardens Trust People's Choice Award returned for 2022, and 300 votes were cast by the public during the Design
Degree Show. Two awards were up for grabs, one for undergraduate and one for
postgraduate.
The winner of the postgraduate award was... Meg Cowell (MA
Landscape Architecture), with her project entitled 'Rural Connections -
Reidentifying Bradwell Power Station on a Recreational Coastline'.
Commendations went to Lissy Moriarty (MA Landscape Architecture - conversion
year) with her project 'Heal - Health, Environment and Agriculture Lab'.
Congratulations to the winners and runners up.
Gillespies Award - Best Exhibition Piece
The #LAGDaward from Gillespies for the Best
Exhibition Piece went to... Meg Cowell.
Armel Mourgue said 'It is a powerful exhibition piece, bold
in colour and graphics with so much information. The more you zoom in, the more
you read, the more you see the thoughts and work that has gone into this
project.'
#Congratulations again Meg, on your 2nd award win!
Armel also said that 'the following submissions also stood
out and should be congratulated for such beautiful work':
Jiyeon Park (BSc (Hons) Landscape Architecture)
Laura Cohen (BSc (Hons) Landscape and Garden Design)
Martin Smith (MA Landscape Architecture)
and Sarah Freeman (MA Landscape Architecture)
Well done all!
#Writtle #Exhibition #DegreeShow #LandscapeArchitecture
#GardenDesign #DesignStudio #LandscapeDesign
CED Stone Award -
Our next #LAGDaward came from CED Stone, for Best Use of
Hard Landscaping Materials.
Giles Heap said 'As usual, a very high standard all
around. I can see the students' level of
detail and understanding of "space/place" and how we as humans
interact with the built environment growing every year. The thoughts, considerations and ideas that
your students are putting together yet again, gives me hope for the future not
just of our industry, but of our environment.
Again, huge kudos to the faculty.'
Winner of the postgraduate award was... Clare Birkbeck, with
her project 'Salutogenic Connections - Increasing community cohesion in
Thaxted'.
'This simple, yet thoughtful design has completely captured
the essence of one of Essex', indeed the entire East of England's, oldest
towns. Thaxted has such a rich history, both in terms of trade and local
tradition, but also the architecture, which gives it such a sense of place, it
is unmistakable.
Claire's understanding of the issues (resistors) that the
town suffers from is, in my opinion, spot on. Her choice of warm, traditional
materials, sometimes used with a twist, suit the town better than almost
anything else she could have chosen.'
Winner of the undergraduate award was... Jiyeon Park, with
her project 'Taming the Untamed'.
'Jiyeon has shown a deep understanding of the industrial
history of Swanscombe and managed to choose a pallet of materials and design
that embodies not just the past, but the present and, hopefully the future.
Solid and bold design features and material choice give
context, yet allow the site to be enjoyed as a wonderful space. Encouraging the wilding of the area can only
be a benefit to all, and the soft contours of the paths and planting are
balanced beautifully by the hard, industrial, black granite features.'
Congratulations both!
#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #DesignStudio #LandscapeDesign
BricsCAD Award -
Our final #LAGDaward was for Most Innovative Digital
Rendering from BricsCAD by Hexagon.
Winner of the undergraduate award was Laura Cohen (BSc (Hons)
Landscape and Garden Design) with her project 'Gweledigaeth Twnel (Tunnel
Vision)'.
Winner of the postgraduate award was Sam Laws (MA Landscape
Architecture) with her project 'Liminal Landscapes - An Informal Armatures
Approach to Displacement Management at Calais'.
'In both their renderings, their choice of colours and
lineweights in their individual renderings beautifully articulated their design
concepts whilst maintaining a sleek overall graphical look to their storyboards.'
Congratulations to both of you!
#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #DesignStudio #WUCshow2022 #LandscapeDesign
WUC Design Degree Show Website Launches!
The Writtle University College Design Degree Show exhibition
website launched on 25th May.
The exhibition features all of the artwork from our Art and the
Environment students, and all of the design projects of our undergraduate and postgraduate
students of Landscape Architecture and Garden Design.
You also find the students' Cross Disciplinary Projects and
a few extras too, along with an archive of the last two Design Degree Shows.
https://www.wuc-designshow.co.uk/
#WUCshow2022
