c i t y // t e r r i t o r y
s o c i e t y // n a t u r e
r e s e a r c h // d e s i g n
CONNECTING THE NEW FOREST NATIONAL PARK TO SOUTHAMPTON WATER
The aim of this project was to design a vision to connect the New Forest National Park with Southampton Water and its seafront communities. The settlements and the park are currently separated by a busy A-road. A thorough baseline study and policy assessment were first completed to establish opportunities and constraints. The research culminated in a green infrastructure vision plan, which will inform future development of the area.
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THE SIMPANG SEED ARMY
Building on the foraging and cooking practices of the Simpang Dayak community of West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), Junoscape is working with the traditional indigenous knowledge school Arus Kualan in Tahak to co-design a network of spaces and paths in their forest territory. These spaces act as both educational and occupation infrastructure in the face of proliferating Big Palm Oil, while the paths between the spaces promote regular monitoring of the landscape. Together, they form an ecosystem of geochoreographies (Caycedo, 2016), laced with joy and stewardship.
Workshops and games with the schoolchildren, both online and in the forest, identified what they wanted to construct in their territory: a forest restaurant, guest house, new school building, performance space, dream house and workshop playground. Drawings and models were exchanged, as well as knowledge about building techniques and materials and new design ideas. Discussions about siting steered decisions towards a decentralised network of spaces.
The first phase will center on building the new forest school building in order to bring the children’s learning into the forest.
