Masterplan
This section of Roots has the main aim of bridging the gap between the modern urban human and nature across all kingdoms encouraging a desire to learn about the natural world around us. This aim is achieved by creating different types of habitat in one unit of urban space and by offering opportunities for contemplation, discovery, and education.
Main features
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habitats
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lookouts
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walking paths
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outdoor school
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plaza
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information panels
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grassland
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new wildlife
This section of Roots has the main aim of connecting the four scapes both visually and physically.
Between Eduscape and Playscape a viewfinder is installed in front of the entrance of the forest school. This allows for a strong and guided visual connection to the following site.
Between Playscape and Aquascape a hedgerow, supported by wayfinding elements, guides the explorer across the landscape.
This section of Roots has the main aim of letting the citizens interact with the landscape.
Main features
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habitats
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a playground
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an orchard
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a wildflower meadow
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information panels
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interactive forest installation
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a cafe with a sheltered outdoor area with tables, sockets and wifi
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grassland for both human and more-than-human dwellers
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new wildlife
This section of Roots has the main aim of reverse-engineering a portion of the Forth and Clyde canal between Port Dundas and the M8 Motorway and offering a more natural wetland environment.
Main features
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habitats
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a boardwalk with platforms
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information panels
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new wildlife
This section of Roots has the main aim of being the knowledge centre of the community.
Main features
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plant nursery
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a community science hub
This is the central and starting point for the development and expansion of Roots from a neighbourhood dimension to a city wide one. The nursery provides seedlings for other cluster of derelict land and allows a further regeneration of Glasgow urban scape.
Material Structure
Ecological Structure
Flora
Fauna
Everything we do intimately affects some other human being, some other creature, and the planet we live in. We live in an indivisible biosphere community and we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere consciousness, if we want life as we know to continue to exist.
Multi-habitat
"The concept of “assemblage,” borrowed from ecology, emerges as an important theoretical tool and organizing principle for the monograph. Assemblage, for Tsing, is a way to reconceptualize what is meant by community. She writes, “The question of how the varied species in a species assemblage influence each other—if at all—is never settled… [Assemblages] allow us to ask about communal affects without assuming them” (Tsing 2015: 22-23). To say multiple lifeforms live together in a community implies that they are interacting somehow: symbiosis, mutualism, predation, and parasitism all come to mind. Assemblage merely recognizes that they are situated together in the same time and place without intention."
Matthew D. Thompson
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