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Tanner Fountain by Peter Walker @pwpla Located at Tanner Fountain by Peter Walker @pwpla

Located at a pedestrian crossroads near Harvard Yard, this prize-winning fountain, consisting of 159 granite boulders sourced from regional farms, recalls the colonists’ arduous experience of clearing their agricultural fields. Set smooth side up, the boulders create a 60-foot-diameter circle overlapping the asphalt paving, th e existing grass, and two trees. Water emitted from 32 nozzles located in the center of the circle is captured and re-circulated through the fountain. For three seasons of the year the nozzles emit a dematerializing mist while in winter steam from the university heating plant creates a fog around the fountain. The fountain elegantly displays the snow that Cambridge unfailingly provides and invites human participation without suggesting any particular activity. As a result, the fountain is heavily used by people of various ages who sit, read, climb, jump, flirt, converse, and meditate.

📸 @pwpla 
📝 @pwpla
Last Tuesday I got to visit the French gardener, w Last Tuesday I got to visit the French gardener, writer, entomologist, teacher,  landschape architect and big time inspiration Gilles Clement. 

Together with @zasbrezar we talked about his youth, his concepts and the importance of wild, natural spaces. 

It was a great pleasure meeting him, such an inspirational, positive man to learn from. 

Thanks for the invite @zasbrezar @landezine_com!

Images are of the Jardins de l’Arche de la Défense, all pics by Gilles Clement.
These pics by @loesvanduijvendijk reminded me how These pics by @loesvanduijvendijk reminded me how enjoyable this project was to work on. Such a nice collaboration with 
📐@overtredersw
🌱@onkruidenier
🥬@joyce.oomen 
🪵@fictionfactory.amsterdam 
🎪@kossmanndejong 
🖌@paulfaassen
⚒️#paulcasteleijn

If there’s a Floriade again in ten years, can we do it again?
The strange thing with festival gardens is that mo The strange thing with festival gardens is that most visitors come by only one time, while one of the things I love most about gardens is how they change. 

These are three shots from more or less the same point of view. The first one taken just after completion in April, the second one in June and the last one in October. Showing how the balance between architecture and planting changes over time. 

@overtredersw 
@kossmanndejong 
@joyce.oomen 
@paulfaassen
@fictionfactory.amsterdam 

first two pics by @jornvaneck 
third pic by @loesvanduijvendijk
Ten days ago, on October 13th, I gave my inaugural Ten days ago, on October 13th, I gave my inaugural lecture as the new head of landscape architecture @academievanbouwkunst.

Thanks for all who showed up, in real life or online. Thanks to @hanneke.kijne for your kind words and the oak sapling. Thanks to @academievanbouwkunst for organising all of this and for selecting me in the first place. Thanks to @mainstudio for making such a wonderful booklet. Thanks to @iwansmit for your artwork. 

For those who wanna see the lecture, there’s a link in my bio to the recorded event.

I’m looking forward to the next four years!
On Thursday October 13th, I will deliver my inaugu On Thursday October 13th, I will deliver my inaugural lecture Taking Root to kick off my new role as head of the Master of Landscape Architecture programme. The event, from 19:30 CET, will be @academievanbouwkunst in Amsterdam. 

Beforehand, the former head @hanneke.kijne will look back on her time as head of the Landscape Architecture Master's programme.

I realise for some of you that might be quite the trip, so we arranged for a livestream. I’ll make sure, when the link is there, to put it up in my bio.
‘Uhm yes, there are quite a few yellow leaves in ‘Uhm yes, there are quite a few yellow leaves in the garden, what should we do with those?’

‘Just leave them.’

‘But we’re worried visitors won’t find the garden pretty anymore.’

‘The garden wasn’t designed just for humans to think it’s pretty.’

‘Oh, ok.’

📷 by @ruben_bruninx and Paul Casteleijn
Didn’t want this to just slip by: From August 1s Didn’t want this to just slip by: From August 1st I’m officially heading the landscape architecture master program at the @academievanbouwkunst in Amsterdam. 

The academic year starts next week. I’m very much looking forward to meeting all the students and collaborating with the staff, a wide range of landscape professionals and of course my fellow heads @janna_bystrykh and @markusappenzeller 

Many thanks to former head @hanneke.kijne for sharing all your experience with me.

October 13th will be my inaugural speech at the Academy building. Invites will follow 💌

Image: faculty of the @academievanbouwkunst, a former chaplaincy house and artillery warehouse in the heart of Amsterdam. Image courtesy of @stadsarchief
Botanical Bath offers an indoor nature experience Botanical Bath offers an indoor nature experience that appeals to the human senses, using plants to play a trick on the human mind. The visitor is encouraged to reach through the opening and bathe in this hyper-natural world, created with dried plants, light, smell and sound.

Botanical Bath is part of the Dutch pavilion’s exhibition Have we met? for the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition, promoting new ways for understanding our planet as a shared space for plants, microbes, humans and other animals. The view that the earth exists solely for human exploitation must be radically rethought to confront today’s environmental crises. Have we met? therefore examines what attitudes, tools and technologies are necessary to recalibrate the relationship between humans and non-humans.

Made in collaboration with botanical artist @frank_bruggeman, perfumer @liza_witte and sound designer Alfred Koster.

Thanks to @ellenzoete, @nikkihurk, @klaas_kuitenbrouwer and @studio_ossidiana for the wonderful collaboration.

Thanks to @robertadicosmo for all your help in gathering, building and putting together this installation.

Thanks to @liza_witte for designing such a wonderful scent in such a short period of time. Next time I’ll make sure to contact you much, much earlier.

Thanks to @joyce.oomen, @kore_flowersplants and @eenbloemetjeoptafel for your fantastic dried flowers.

Exhibiton design by @studio_ossidiana
Graphic design by @michomaca and @buster0friendly

📸 Nicole Marnati