Dermot Foley - School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape

Close-to-hand: The landscape architecture of secondary raw materials

Dermot Foley is a horticulturalist, landscape architect and director of DFLA ( www.dfla.ie ). Established in 2001, DFLA is one of Ireland’s most innovative and successful landscape architecture firms. DFLA practice an artistic expression of the environmental sciences; exploring themes of chronology, abandonment, embodied cognition, craft, imperfection and ecology, in experimental and built work throughout Ireland and further afield. In this talk, Dermot Foley will introduce their innovative practice-based research on the reuse of construction and demolition waste, in the form of secondary raw materials, best exemplified through award winning project Bridgefoot Street Park.

This talk forms part of a series of events organised by the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, in conjunction with the Landscape Institute North East branch, to celebrate 75 years of landscape teaching and research at the University.

Zoom details will be sent to registered attendees prior to the event. Please note that this event will not be recorded.