Creative Terrain UCL

Overview

The Creative Terrain course from UCL provides an introduction to the practice of Landscape Architecture, and its commitment to an agenda of climate-focused landscape design. Through a design and production led approach, the course aims to address sustainability and deal with real-world challenges, such as biodiversity loss, climate change and ecological crisis. 

Key facts

Guided by a bespoke brief titled ‘Creative Terrain’, students will collaborate over an intensive 5-day period to develop a large-scale collaborative landscape model, based within the richly layered terrains of the Lee Valley. Studio-based learning will be complimented by on-site visits and mapping studies, using creative methods to trace the layers of history and development across these sites and speculate on what potential forms its future may hold. 

The course will act as a gateway into the Landscape Architecture MLA/ MA programme at The Bartlett, providing key insight into our curriculum and approach. Led by design studio tutors currently teaching on the Landscape Architecture MLA/MA course, learning will take place within the programme’s new building in Wicklow Street, in central London. Utilising our state-of-the-art workshops and facilities, students will receive a unique insight into the practice of landscape design at The Bartlett with guidance and inspiration from teaching staff who are experts in their respective fields, to support each student in their design aspirations. Teaching will be focused on a design and site-led research approach. This will be conducted through site visits, workshops, tutorials, and presentations to showcase how different methods of design and analysis can be combined to reframe the way we understand landscape.