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Layers and Collaboration
For the next three weeks, Topophilia is teaming up with students from the Masters in Landscape Architecture program at the Victoria University of Wellington as they explore, research, and design in New York City.
Led by Meghan Pierce-Delaney, students will traverse the city and engage in activities designed to orientate them and help position research interests within the context of the city's cultural and physical development. These explorations will include studies of spatial and programmatic conditions as they relate to individual research questions.
After an initial survey, students will select a specific typology that interests them and explore it in two distinct locations throughout the city. Students will use photos and video to begin their investigations. From there, they will develop a series of drawings that examine each typology at the scale of the individual, the neighborhood and the city at large.
Drawings, videos and narratives produced during this process will be posted on the project page on Wednesdays through the end of January, so be sure to check back!
ALSO, we are hoping you will help add another layer to the exploration so please leave lots of feeback, suggestions and comments on this process and the work as we experiment with new ways of using this website. Let us know you're out there!
"Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go." — Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)