TED: Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment

Go Green in the City: From Garden City to Green City

Go Green in the City: From Garden City to Green City is an exhibition held by Garden museum in London. The exhibition duration is from 23rd September 2011 to 1st April 2012. Many visions, design and projects inspired by Green Concept can be found here.

Assessment of sites

Today, we discussed main ideas of our garden at Goldsmiths campus. In addition, the big picture of live garden become much clear. Further more, we attempted to transform the aims of garden into criteria which can help us to sort out the data from fieldwork. Therefore, we took conditions of each site into account and assessed them by our consensus. Finally, we believe that water, food connection, compost, and space for storage and tool are important factors which should be concerned in the process of developing garden proposal.

Open publication - Free publishing - More fieldwork

King's Cross Central Skip Garden

(http://www.kingscrosscentral.com/skip_garden)

King’s Cross is located in central London where more than thousands people travel by. At the same time, many constructions have continuing at amazing race. Is it possible to find a urban garden in this busy area? Yes!! In spring, 2009, the Skip Garden had created by by volunteers from from the Guardian and the Observer. Many youth from local community and construction apprentices got involved in this project as well. Skip Garden was designed with concept of portability in order to be harvested in other places as different areas in King’s Cross has been developed in different periods. For instance, volunteers was taught to make movable greenhouse bicycles by themselves. Therefore, they  could replace some vegetable gardens temporarily, even deliver food to restaurants directly.

In this case, I found something meaningful. First of all , young people had opportunities to participate in community affairs in close response to  global environmental issues.  Besides, children acquired knowledge of their  daily intake  from experiencing, not just from reading. In terms of design, the image of  construction in King’s Cross could be found in some raised beds. Finally,  to certain extent, this movement also made people aware of natural power from local food growing  in high-density built environment. I hope to know more news about Skip Gradens. You also can find  Skip Garden in Youtube .

(This article, written by Shanyu, was posted in Design & Environment, Goldsmiths website. )

An Art Park Sprouts Where New Buildings Were to Grow: LentSpace

Occupying an irregularly shaped city block at the northwest corner of Canal and Sullivan Streets, it will be both a park and a showcase for established and newer artists, open from 7 a.m. till dusk daily, except in January, February and part of March. More.

Green City Rooftops

Brooklyn Grange is a commercial organic farm located on New York City rooftops. They grow vegetables in the city and sell them to local people and businesses. Their goal is to improve access to very good food, to connect city people more closely to farms and food production, and to make urban farming a viable enterprise and livelihood.

Abbey Gardens - What will the harvest be?

This morning our group and the rest of the MA technonatures visited a food growing site located in West Ham within London borough of Newham. It is a garden where anyone can come and join, learn how to grow and harvest organic vegetables, fruit and flowers. Basically this green garden is a community garden. It was amazing to see various of fruits and vegetables are growing.

Fieldwork site info

Hi Shan Yu, Hazwani

These are the scanned files of our site observation (should able to be enarged...if still cannot indentify I'll think another way...)

BTW today a classmate told me that he intend to join our group on technonature!

Raju Rahman, MACP
raju.rahman@hotmail.co.uk
07930984761

How's the meal and the talk today?
Are we going to have a discussion, and maybe tell him about our progress?

Chueh Ying