Submissions Invited: Communicative Lands, Community Landscapes
The Brock Review is seeking scholarly essays and creative pieces for an upcoming issue on the theme of “Communicative Lands, Community Landscapes.” This issue will focus on the perception, representation and phenomenology of landscapes as communicative devices and as centres of community. Submissions may focus on any historical era and/or geographical region. This issue will be co-edited by Dr. Katharine T. von Stackelberg (Department of Classics, Brock University).
Possible topics might include:
Marine Structures: Innovative Design from Norway
Lecture at MoMA---
Norwegian civil engineer Tor Ole Olsen will speak on infrastructure in the marine environment with an emphasis on his work with concrete structures in oil and gas, bridges and renewable energy sources. This program is sponsored by The Royal Norwegian Consulate General and presented as part of the public programming associated with the upcoming MoMA exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront.
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Wayward Plant Registry Event: ExXmas Forest!
An announcement from the Wayward Plant Registry in London:
From January 11th-17th, The Wayward Plant Registry will be occupying a vacant shopfront in Granville Arcade, a 1930s indoor market in Brixton, as part of the Spacemakers initiative. The shop will be transformed into a forest made from recycled x-mas trees and the week will culminate in a community planting in a nearby vacant lot.
Rising Currents Open House Saturday 1/9
If you are in NYC this weekend and you are a designer, scientist, engineer, or just plain concerned about climate change and rising sea levels there's an opportunity to check out a creative studio residency that MoMA has been cooking up with locals.
Check out this coming Saturday Jan 9th, Rising Currents Open House
Morocco: Courtyards and Gardens by Achva Stein
Achva Stein, Director at CUNY’s Landscape Architecture program is discussing her new book, Morocco: Courtyards and Gardens. She will be signing the book too, if you’re into that sort of thing.
