Events

• 8 February 2012

  Urban Physic Garden travels to Thailand with the British Council

  The Urban Physic Garden has been included in the British Council’s traveling exhibition, Everything Forever Now, which presents sixteen “intelligent and innovative” design projects which “signal new approaches to questions of sustainability.” Many different words are used to describe and… Continue reading →

• 17 January 2012 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

  London Festival of Architecture 2012 Engagement Event

  Heather has been invited to speak about the Union Street Urban Orchard at the London Festival of Architecture 2012 Engagement Event at RIBA. “Want to get involved in the 2012 festival? Whether you’re a sole practitioner or working in a… Continue reading →

• Monday 16 January

  New Democracy Group Helsinki

  Heather will be speaking about Wayward Plants and participation to the New Democracy Group from Helsinki, part of the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA.

• 20 October

  Naturoids Talks at the Royal College of Art

  Heather and Jarred have both been invited to speak at the Naturoids series of talks at the Royal College of Art. Heather will be speaking about productive environments on 20 October and Jarred will be speaking about his wormery research… Continue reading →

• 20-30 October 2011

  Urban Physic Garden at Centrum Architektury for the Lodz Design Festival

  Documentation of the Urban Physic Garden has been included in the exhibition, “Redirection. Change in architecture” at Centrum Architektury in Poland for the 5th International Lodz Design Festival.

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  20 October 2011 - 29 January 2012

  Urban Physic Garden at Somerset House for RIBA’s Forgotten Spaces Exhibition

  Forgotten Spaces is about looking at the future development of our cities differently. Based on an open ideas competition run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), architects, engineers, students and designers of all kinds were invited to submit… Continue reading →

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  September 22-23, 2011

  Algaegarden at IIDEX / NeoCon Toronto

  The International Garden Festival is showing Algaegarden designed by Heather Ring, Brenda Parker and Synnøve Fredericks at the IIDEX/NeoCon Show in Toronto on September 22 and 23. IIDEX is Canada’s largest exposition and conference for the design, construction and management… Continue reading →

• 23 September 2011

  Open House London

  Ash Sakula Architects have organized, with the support of Wayward Plants and Industri(us) – an open house in the future site of Children’s City, with participatory model-making and large-scale mapping of the site with tape, to capture ideas. At 4pm,… Continue reading →

• August 25, 2011

  Shortlisted for Three Mills Playspace Competition with Studio Weave

  Four shortlisted design teams (erect architecture, We Made That with Free Play, Studio Weave with Wayward Plants, and Kinnear Landscape Architects) have been selected to take part in the second stage of the Three Mills Play-space Competition. This selection was… Continue reading →

• July 24, 2011

  Special award for the Union Street Urban orchard

  The Union Street Urban Orchard was awarded a special commendation by the Conservation Foundation in their Green Corners Awards. “The Union Street Urban Orchard was a fantastic project which was put forward for the No Man’s Land category for transforming… Continue reading →

• 22 July 2011

  Launch of Herbarium Poetry Anthology

  ‘Herbarium’ is a web-based anthology of poems written by over 50 poets celebrating and exploring the contemporary resonances of medicinal plants and herbs. Join us at the Urban Physic Garden for a live reading of poems from the anthology, edited… Continue reading →

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  June 25 - October 2, 2011

  Algaegarden at the Metis International Garden Festival in Quebec

  The International Garden Festival is recognized as one of the most important events of its kind in North America and one of the leading annual garden festivals in the world. Since 2000, more than 900,000 visitors have explored 110 gardens… Continue reading →

• May 25, 2011

  Wayward Plants part of creative consortium to win Meanwhile London Competition

  A team which includes EXYZT, Spacemakers, Ash Sakula Architects and Wayward Plants were winners of a Meanwhile Space in Canning Town for the “Canning Town Caravanserai” and “Children’s City.” 6000 square metres of brownfield land will be transformed into an… Continue reading →

• 26 May 2011, 6pm

  Union Street Urban Orchard Book Launch!

  The Architecture Foundation published a beautiful book on the Union Street Urban Orchard, edited by Moira Lascelles. Come to the book launch to celebrate! Admission free, but RSVP essential by 24 May: events@architecturefoundation.org.uk

• 5 March 2011

  Keynote Talk @ Digital Belonging

  Heather has been invited to give a keynote talk about Wayward Plants at the Digital Belonging event: “Connecting communities online, offline and everything in between …” organized by NearLabs. The intention of the day is to explore the burgeoning relationship… Continue reading →

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  January 25, 2011

  Lecture @ Kingston University

  Heather Ring has been invited to present the work of Wayward Plants to the school of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at Kingston University, and to attempt to answer the question, “What is Landscape?”.

• 14 December 2010

  Lecture @ Landscape Institute London

  Heather will an invited guest speaker at the Landscape Institute London as part of the programme on “Cities, Communities and Gardens” for their holiday event.