An organism of flux
Cromarty Firth as an organism of flux
Research project at Edinburgh University - College of Arts
Year : 2020
Territory : Cromarty Firth, Scotland (U-K)
Boundaries are also corridors. These corridors are essential infrastructures for the flow of goods and services to the societies that use them. The objective is to create a general map by systematically referencing these boundaries. Instead of showing impassable boundaries, it shows a new network on which a new system of green and blue corridors is established. The creation of these highways of energy and resources will allow the emergence of a new biodiversity and a new landscape experience for the inhabitants of the Cromarty Firth valley.
The idea of these corridors should correspond not to watertight and impermeable boundaries but rather to transitions between spaces. There is one word in ecology to describe these transitions: Ecotone. Ecotones are spaces where the dynamics of evolution are very important. Indeed, these environments have at their heart, a meeting of two very different ecosystem. This meeting promotes biological diversity and creates a place of exchange. They are porous hedges. That create, an erosion effect which changes the hard boundaries into transition spaces.
There is no Garden without a Gardener. Can there be Gardeners without a Garden? Landscape architect should consider the actors who will maintain this garden as is essential. Without gardeners, the garden cannot exist because, time inevitably changes the design that the landscape gardener made. However, what if time was considered as a gardener on its own right?
The territorial garden provides for all actors a living space of quality where they can experiment new forms of landscape. Furthermore this new type of garden creates a space for life itself. Indeed, by improving the fluxes and the connections in this territory, it is creating a network where life can emerge more easily. This provides more resilience against climate change and extreme weather events.
