DON’T TAKE WATER FOR GRANTED.
Where does it come from, where does it go? These are some of the biggest challenges of our time. We all turn the tap on and expect to obtain high quality drinking water, but how does this play out in the landscape. Growing demands, poor management and climate change have increased water stresses and scarcity of water has become a major problem in many parts of the world.
This year’s projects focus on water and its impact on place. The first a unique fishing port to the east of Hastings Old Town in East Sussex. Rock a Nore now famed for its tall black sea huts and is home to the largest beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe. In the late 19th century it was once the town’s leading industrial estate when new sea defences created virgin land enabling industry and new jobs to grow. It is still home to one of the oldest remaining beach-launched fishing fleets in Europe
The second, a more urban setting in the new town area of Hastings. The area locally known as the Trinity Triangle sits between the train station and the sea. In the early 19th century, the neighbourhood was known as the America Ground for its radical libertarian atmosphere due to it then being on the edge of town and seemingly free from local authority control.
Project 01 – The Stade, Hastings Old Town
Unit B spent their first team exploring innovative ways to see how landscape architecture can work to mitigate the environmental changes we face, in turn improving its resilience for both the human and the more than human?
Site 02 – Trinity Triangle, Hastings Town Centre
The focal point for project two sits at the heart of a unique creative land trust. Building on the radical thinking of the America Ground community, the students of Unit B were asked to reimagine a radical approach to this urban landscape setting ensuring its resilience for years to come?
Will Sandy, Elin Eyborg Lund
Julia Hilton – Leader of Hastings Borough Council, Becca Horn – Mayor of Hastings, Sherry Clark – Transition Town Hastings, Fergus Garret – Great Dixter, Rob Flack – Great Dixter, Lucy Stewart’ Rhod Jones’ Steven Kennedy’ Simon Withers’ Duncan Goodwin’ Ed Wall’ Anushka Winterbottom
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