Wednesday 15 March 2017

Nichola & Matt Speight: Urban Recovery

Master of Landscape Architecture Open Lectures 2017

5.30pm—7.30pm

After the dust settled from the catastrophic earthquake which hit Christchurch in February 2011, the rebuilding process was seen as an opportunity to rethink the urban fabric af the city. BDP and locally based consultants, OpusOpus led a design consortium in the Watermark project, the first stage in the regeneration of the Avon River corridor, running through the heart of the city: Te Papa Otakaro. A BDP team from the UK and Holland relocated to Christchurch for 1 year to work on the project.

Nic and Matt Speight, both senior landscape architects at BDP in Manchester, seized the opportunity to go out to New Zealand to work on the project. They will be talking about the unique experience of working in a vast improvised studio where landscape architects, engineers, ecologists and a multitude of other professionals from around the world mixed in together in a unique inter-disciplinary creative process to rethink and reinvent the heart af tne ruined city. The talk will focus on the river as a symbol and catalyst for the rebuilding of the city.

Part of the Master of Landscape Architecture Open Lecture Series.

Catering kindly sponsored by Ground Control.