In the past teaching blocks we have explored both the delicate role that liminal landscapes play as infrastructural and as strategic urban public spaces as well as the role of the public realm as a key economical and urban asset in the context of a pandemic. The first project concentrated on the reconceptualisation of a post-pandemic Shoreditch (London). By using the space that empty homes offer and by placing temporary vegetation, the project Vacant Gardens was born. The second project focussed on the historic water treatment site of Seething Wells in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. An area with seven individual filter beds is turned into a unique wetland. Both projects applied similar concepts as they use places with a lot of history and connect that with something new and modern.
