Landscapes are hard, all messy and complex. Sites are tough, many toxic and degraded. Neighbourhoods are complicated, uniquely layered and deserving. Good design isn’t enough: environmental regeneration, social equity, savvy resourcefulness and sheer joy are also required. Be it a coal mine, a shipyard, a city full of polluted soil and all sorts of abandoned sites, D.I.R.T. does what Cornelia Hahn Oberlander would do: dig deep, carefully and empathetically find, let form and process emerge from the place, and design the landscape with a vengeance.
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