AA Landscape Urbanism Co-Head Eduardo Rico-Carranza will present the programme’s work in Madrid

Eduardo will introduce the work developed in the Landscape Urbanism (LU) programme within the Architectural Association at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid on the 30 November from 1pm CET.

LU explores the role that design and designers play when working within the field of policymaking. Contemporary planetary urbanisation is structured by policies that govern and organise our societies, economies and ecologies which, in turn, are shaped by human relations of power, production and environment fabrication. LU explores design within, and beyond normative aesthetic and performative proposals, as we confront the processes, landscapes and territories of planetary urbanisation and the environmental, racial, socioeconomic and health related crises they have triggered. LU explores design and engagement mechanisms that insert themselves into policies, orchestrating political and economic frameworks to avert the contemporary ecological crisis.

Image: Dummy City game for Neighbourhood Planning by students Guang Yang, Siqi Sun, Jiangcheng Sun, Hantang Li, AA Landscape Urbanism.