‘Ideas Without a Home’
With design competitions, there always needs to be a winner. When we’re not selected, it stings but the creative output still has value and becomes an ‘idea without a home’.
Here’s a selection of images from our submission for Portugal Street that runs through the heart of the LSE campus, severing the cohesiveness of the campus and impacting the experience of the public realm.
Spina viridis, inspired by the universal language of botanical Latin that provides the means by which the natural world is classified. Spina meaning spine, and viridis meaning green or flourishing, embodying concepts of growth, vitality, and renewal. Our approach is centred on co-design and radical empathy to create a beautiful and biodiverse living spine along Portugal Street inspired by the unique urban setting of LSE and its ethos as a community of people and ideas founded to know the cause of things for the betterment of society. The transformation of Portugal Street is an exciting opportunity to consider people as an integral part of a unique campus ecosystem, how interests of human and multi-species worlds intersect and what the symbiotic benefits are when people and cities become an integral part of nature, not separate from it.
Overall illustration by George Allen, eye level drawings by Samantha Charles that have been converted to designed night views by Melissa Byer at Michael Grubb Studio.
