THE ETERNAL CITY? Due to faster than expected sea level rise, scientists project that even the drastic intervention of the M.O.S.E. sea barrier project will only delay the permanent flooding of Venice by 100 to 200 years. In this future vision of drastically altered climate conditions, coastal cities such as Venice will have to physically […]

Thursday May 8th marked the official opening of the new Thurn and Taxis park in central Brussels. A park of this scale has not been inaugurated in Brussels since the time of Leopold II. The minister of the environment, Évelyne Huytebroeck, gave an inaugural speech and toured the installations of Parckdesign 2014. A festive reception […]

New installation unveiled in Brussels in the context of Parckdesign 2014! The Landscape Table is a platform for cultivating, processing, cooking and sharing food at the centre of the Parckdesign event in the new Tour et Taxis park. Thanks to the edible and medicinal plants growing in the table itself, the installation invites the public […]

MORE COMING SOON: WWW.PARCKDESIGN.BE Jacques Abelman and Eric Dil have had the honor of being co-curators for an innovative biennial event in Brussels that combines public apce, urban agriculture, and community participation in a brand new urban park. The inauguration of the park will be on May 8th, 2014. In collaboration with Taktyk, Alive Architecture, […]

Landscape democracy is an emergent aspect of our profession which bridges landscape architecture and human rights. This opens a forum for essential discussion, from the ramifications of the European Landscape Convention to the contestation of public spaces in rapidly urbanizing areas. In the context of the Cultivating the City: Infrastructures of abundance in urban Brazil, […]

I will be presenting my current research-in-progress into connected urban foodscapes based on indigenous species in Brazil twice in October in the United States: Cornell University Department of Landscape Architecture Kennedy Hall Room 461 Friday October 11th, Noon. and Amherst College Architectural Studies Program Wednesday October 16th, 4:30 pm Pruyne Auditorium in Fayerweather Hall. The […]

Download the research paper on the academia dot com website From vision to means:Articulating landscape architectural practices for urban agriculture–a design proposal for connected Brazilian foodscapes

Cultivating the City. During the months of March and April I was in Brazil for intensive site visits in the state of Rio Grande do Sul for my landscape archtiecture thesis work Cultivating the City. I was based in the rural sociology department of URFGS – that is where the most relevant research is happening […]

The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul or UFRGS is the third largest research university in Brazil. During March and April of 2013 I was based in the PGDR department while I conducted field research in the Porto Alegre. PGDR is linked to the Rural Sociology Department of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. For […]