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On the Greenway in east London.
The Greenway is a cycle and footpath built atop the Northern Outfall Sewer, built in the 1860s to improve sanitation in central London by discharging the sewage far downstream of London.
Now, the sewage is treated in the Beckton Sewage Works in east London and the grass beside the cycle and footpath has been "rewilded" by the London Borough of Newham and has many pretty wild flowers growing atop it.
The Wild Future Lab imagined Nairobi in 2045 as a metropolis where ecological systems and urban life have been transformed through regeneration and biomimetic design. This speculative worldbuilding project explores how fashion can respond to—and help facilitate—a transition toward rewilded urban spaces.
Photo: The Wild Future Lab, Ajax Axe
The Wild Future Lab imagined Nairobi in 2045 as a metropolis where ecological systems and urban life have been transformed through regeneration and biomimetic design. This speculative worldbuilding project explores how fashion can respond to—and help facilitate—a transition toward rewilded urban spaces.
Photo: The Wild Future Lab, Ajax Axe
This image assembles hundreds of blue and green “rocks” collected along the shoreline of Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit, a place I once swam almost daily. Though they look like natural stones, most are fragments of tile, concrete, slag, and industrial coatings, materials I have sampled and chemically analyzed in my research. The blue pieces, which are especially striking to the eye, consistently tested as the most toxic. Arranged here as a single colour field, the image highlights how pollution is reshaped by water into something that appears harmless, even beautiful.
This photograph forms part of a larger project examining how rewilded urban landscapes produce the illusion of environmental recovery. By isolating these fragments, the work asks viewers to consider how toxicity can be disguised as aesthetic pleasure and how the materials we discard return to us through the very places where we seek recreation and refuge.
Rachel Rozanski (Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture)
A sunny Tuesday , the first in November 2021, and I thought I would have an amble round Maulden Woods with my camera and phone. It started well when I arrived at The Working Woodland Centre to find Sue Raven, Tim Spencer and Guy Lambourne who were all heading my way to see the Si;ver Birch growth on Raven's Heath. It was good to catch up but I left them there with the cattle browsers> I wandered south to the very edge of the Southern Wood boundary before following a path that lead to the picnic site and the fire pond. It is obvious there is a lot of catching up to do there and back on Raven's Heath where gorse and Canary Grass, Broom and Birch have all run riot over the COVID years. There was very little moving in the way of invertebrates and nary a Speckled Wood etc to be seen.
17/11/2023
Jamie Proud
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Fri, 17 Nov, 14:18 (5 days ago)
to Michael, Carolyn, Dan, Sue, Sarah, Robert
Hi all,
Thank you for all your hard work this week. On Tuesday we were at Raven’s Heath, behind Maulden wood. This ridge is being rewilded from plantation woodland to heather heathland. The trees were felled around 10 years ago, and sections were then seeded with heather over the course of a few years. Today, the heather is doing very well, but broom, gorse, and saplings are intruding, and shading out the heather. Each year we try and remove the gorse and broom from the heather plots, but the broom is proving tough to keep under control, and now invasive wood small reed is also causing a problem. The volunteers did a cracking job and cleared loads of broom and gorse. There is one heather plot that was completely covered in broom, but to avoid causing too sudden a change to the developed habitat, we remove half the broom each year, and have now been doing it for three years.
On Thursday we were back out in the woods at Sandy Smith Reserve, putting up deer fencing around a glade we’d expanded. The glade will be planted with a greater number and variety of tree species to improve the age structure and diversity of the woodland. We had around 60 posts to drive in by hand, and I’d planned on that being the task for the day. The vols dove in with great gusto and had finished driving in the posts by break time! The neighbouring wetland meadow is too wet to get vehicles into, and needed some fence posts replaced, but is currently accessible from the woodland side, so the vols finished off the task by replacing posts in that field as we had the tools with us already. Next week we hope to get the wire and netting up, and then the enclosure will be ready for planting in December.
Next Tuesday we are doing more scrub work at Maulden Heath. Meet at the picnic area for 10am (map attached). We’ll be working in the adder field.
Next Thursday we are continuing the enclosure at Sandy Smith Reserve. Meet in the carpark for 9am.
Hope to see you all on Tuesday!
Yours,
Jamie
A photo looking across Allestree Park Golf Course in Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom that has been disused and has began to be rewilded.
AD 450-886.
By the end of AD 410, the last Roman soldiers had left Britain. Within a few decades, Londinium was deserted. Trees, brambles and nettles took hold and small creatures called this rewilded space their home. The city was abandoned for over 400 years. Picture the ruined, overgrown buildings and the crumbling wall. Between the creeping plants, snails such as these found their way into cracks and crevices.
AD 450-886.
By the end of AD 410, the last Roman soldiers had left Britain. Within a few decades, Londinium was deserted. Trees, brambles and nettles took hold and small creatures called this rewilded space their home. The city was abandoned for over 400 years. Picture the ruined, overgrown buildings and the crumbling wall. Between the creeping plants, snails such as these found their way into cracks and crevices.
Home-grown oak, western red cedar, oriented strand board cassettes from forest thinnings, welsh wool, corten steel, woodpile.
The theme for. this year's Summer Exhibition, Dialogues, set by coordinator Farshid Moussavi RA, sees architecture spread for the first time not only throughout the main galleries, but beyond creating new conversations with other disciplines rather than being confined to its own space. As part of this initiative, we are pleased to present Hrost here in the Lovelace Courtyard, a space used by staff and students of the Schools. Hrost is a prototype for a multi-species roost, a sanctuary alongside new hedgerows, trees and water as part of habitat restoration on land that is being rewilded or converted to ecologically managed solar farms. Within the roost are snug boxes for owls,kestrels and sparrows, rough oak crevices for bats, perforated cladding for lacewings and butterflies and a hibernaculum woodpile for other invertebrates, voles and slow worms. Wide overhanging eaves offer shelter for social wasps or migratory birds.
Hrost has been developed from dialogues with species experts, including Edward and Mandy Mayer of Swift Conservation, in collaboration with Price & Myers and BlokBuild, and with support from Passive Purple, True Wool and the Zoological Society of London,
When we moved here, this field was dessicated,cracked dirt, weeds, mowed dead grass. It has come back with these tuffs of wider bladed grass.
On the Greenway in east London.
The Greenway is a cycle and footpath built atop the Northern Outfall Sewer, built in the 1860s to improve sanitation in central London by discharging the sewage far downstream of London.
Now, the sewage is treated in the Beckton Sewage Works in east London and the grass beside the cycle and footpath has been "rewilded" by the London Borough of Newham and has many pretty wild flowers growing atop it.
I didn’t notice I left my camera in monochrome because of the black bird and how cloudy it usually is here. It was a blue sky day XD
But I think black and white looks really good for Jackdaws.