Her ‘Ideas’ wall pieces are subtle: short texts that ‘when read come alive through the visitor’s imaginations’. Ideas is a permanent commissioned by the University of Edinburgh’s College of Science and Engineering, and is open to visit daily.Ĭontemporary artists pay homage to land art legend Nancy Holt, Wallpaper Magazine, 2022Īt the 12th-century Lismore Castle, Ireland, a group show ‘Light and Language’ explores the enduring legacy of American conceptual and land art pioneer Nancy Holt. Scottish artist Katie Paterson has created a new work responding to the architecture of Lismore Castle. Each short text concerns the landscape, the universe, or an expanded sense of earthly and geological time. The Ideas are located across an array of buildings (both outside and in), as well as in gardens, grounds and hidden and unexpected places, at varying levels, high and low. In the largest site responsive presentation of the work to date, one hundred existing and newly created Ideas have been brought together and installed across selected locations at the University of Edinburgh’s King’s Buildings campus. What time is it on Venus? What will be read by unborn people? Is it possible to plant a forest using saplings from the oldest tree on earth? Can we make ink to be read only under moonlight? Katie Paterson’s Ideas pose questions about deep time, and the limit of what is real and what is imagined. I deas, Katie Paterson, Edinburgh University Kings Building Campus The Academic Body includes: Stefano Boeri, Founder and Director of Stefano Boeri Archiecti Cristina Iglesias, Spanish Artist and Sculptor Mitchell Joachim, Co-founder of Terreform ONE and Associate Professor of Practice at New York University Mohsen Mostafavi, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University Brenda Parker, Associate Professor of Sustainable Bioprocess Design at the Department of Biochemical Engineering of University College London Claudia Pasquero, Co-founder of ecoLogicStudio in London, Landscape Architecture Professor at Innsbruck University and Associated Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture Katie Paterson, Scottish Artist Marco Poletto, Co-founder of ecoLogicStudio in London and architect, theorist and urban planner, Moshe Safdie. The Academic Body brings together a wide range of practitioners from different fields related to biointegrated and ecologic design.
What if the boundary between humans and ecosystems didn’t exist? What if we could transform our waste into nutrients for other organisms? The Norman Foster Foundation presents a new session of its Sustainability Workshop.
While there is an imperative to ensure human survival in the face of climate change, learning from nature’s intricate systems is crucial to ensuring a good quality life for all living things. Sustainability Workshop, Norman Foster Foundation | October 10–14, 2022
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