Urban Choreography

Urban Choreography A multidisciplinary design studio specialising in landscaping, exteriors, interiors and spatial design.

We believe in putting people at the centre of everything we do. By doing so, our clients have an increased chance of creating new, high value spaces for life. Working with our clients team, our design process maximises the available resources to produce unique, successful and impactful environments that people love to be in. The Urban Choreography’s design process and principles embody a set of sy

stemic design and long term management principles that are a combination of response to the unique attributes of the sites terrain, its living fauna and flora, its natural and social heritage and the need to provide a habitable and people friendly urban life that are resilient and as far as possible self-sustaining for the duration of their existence. These principles integrate natural, financial, social and cultural ecosystems at all scales, from a local site framework through to the larger regional framework, that combine local realities and regional flows forged together to make resilient landscapes.
• Natural Ecosystems focus
• Social Ecosystems focus
• Cultural Ecosystems focus
• Financial Ecosystems focus

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Much is being said about the pandemic and governments responses to it and that it could be the opportunity to rethink th...
03/04/2020

Much is being said about the pandemic and governments responses to it and that it could be the opportunity to rethink the way we live and our reckless pursuit of life and consumptive behaviour that threatens our existence here. Despite more than 50 years of warnings of an environmental tragedy and the threat of global warming, selfish interests in most of us persist and, like new years resolutions that faded before the first week of the year, will we return to old habits and allow vested interests in our every day tools, smart phones, computers, Instagram, Facebook, Google, Amazon etc suck us back into the endless rat race of desire, working to fulfil transient goals and wanton pleasure? [ 429 more words ]

Much is being said about the pandemic and governments responses to it and that it could be the opportunity to rethink the way we live and our reckless pursuit of life and consumptive behaviour that…

"The future has already arrived, its just not equally distributed yet!" my favourite quotation from my favourite author ...
19/12/2019

"The future has already arrived, its just not equally distributed yet!" my favourite quotation from my favourite author William Gibson aptly describes this 4K Time-lapse Film by Karl Davies. There are no words or any commentary - see and think for you self what this means!

“The future has already arrived, its just not equally distributed yet!” my favourite quotation from my favourite author William Gibson aptly describes this 4K Time-lapse Film by Karl Da…

This article from the Plant Hunter bu Australian Landscape Architect Jon Hazelwood highlights the difficulties of convey...
10/10/2019

This article from the Plant Hunter bu Australian Landscape Architect Jon Hazelwood highlights the difficulties of conveying to administrators and developers the value that high impact landscape planting in public spaces is equals or exceeds the value created by conventional, commercially driven, urban upgrading. While the maintenance budget of the New York High Line project of $18 million annually, exceeds the construction value of most project landscape budgets here, the key take how is that planting design in public spaces that has a "WOW" factor , is measurable and "bankable" in terms of foot traffic generated and this information needs to form part of our sales pitch to our clients and to authorities. [ 1,775 more word ]

This article from the Plant Hunter bu Australian Landscape Architect Jon Hazelwood highlights the difficulties of conveying to administrators and developers the value that high impact landscape pla…

Jared Green has written a review for The Dirt of a new tool for assessing the climate footprint of landscape projects. T...
08/10/2019

Jared Green has written a review for The Dirt of a new tool for assessing the climate footprint of landscape projects. The tool is free and quite easy to use, but requires soem modification to apply to areas outside of the USA. Let’s be frank: landscape architecture projects can add to the climate crisis. If projects aren’t purposefully designed and built with their carbon footprint in mind, they are likely contributing more greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere than they can sequester over their lifespan. [ 279 more words ]

landscape architects can design and build projects that are not only meant to be carbon neutral, but go further and become “climate positive,” meaning that over their lifespan they sequester more g…

I have for many years admired the gardens and landscapes of Chilean Landscape Architect, Juan Grim. This has largely bee...
29/08/2019

I have for many years admired the gardens and landscapes of Chilean Landscape Architect, Juan Grim. This has largely been from a few images in magazines and books, so I was very pleased this morning to read an interview with him by Lucy Munro on the PLANTHUNTER Here are a few excerpts and pics to wet your appetite to read more. [ 828 more words ]

I have for many years admired the gardens and landscapes of Chilean Landscape Architect, Juan Grim. This has largely been from a few images in magazines and books, so I was very pleased this mornin…

If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline. A though provoking critique o...
21/05/2019

If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline. A though provoking critique of the role Landscape Architects actually play in society versus what they believe they do, this very relevant to the current educational and work crisis that Landscape Architecture faces in South Africa and many other parts the world : Here are few excerpts from the long article, quoted and acknowledged, in the interests of generating a similar discussion in other parts of the world: … [ 2,005 more words ]

We need to train a rising generation of landscape architects for careers in public service. Students will need coursework in public administration and finance, political theory, and community organ…

The Crazy Political agendas of SHADE It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health....
18/05/2019

The Crazy Political agendas of SHADE It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers - this long essay by Sam Bloch in PLACES JOURNAL could just as well apply to Cape Town as to Los Angeles - where apartheid era planning has made its leafy suburbs of the wealthy the exact opposite of the slum tenements and shanty towns of the poor and squatters. [ 1,001 more word ]

What we need is urbanists in and outside City Hall who conceptualize shade itself as a public good

Having been involved over the last 10 days in a green industry and City of Cape Town consultation on "Alternatives for w...
28/02/2019

Having been involved over the last 10 days in a green industry and City of Cape Town consultation on "Alternatives for watering of gardens and landscapes" as a response to the water crisis in Cape Town over the last three years; a nationally convened crisis meeting with Institute of Landscape Architects of South Africa (ILASA) and the representatives of the green industry to discuss responses to the decision by the University of Pretoria to close the BSc Landscape Architecture undergraduate degree that has been running successfully for more than 30 years, due to poor uptake of students for this degree; a two day… [ 1,366 more word ]

For me, gardening is a career pathway to a civilisation that is more connected.”

With all the doom and gloom that talking about climate change in the anthropocene engenders in ones audience, all the hy...
18/02/2019

With all the doom and gloom that talking about climate change in the anthropocene engenders in ones audience, all the hype and positivity I can muster flags when I read about the size of the problems faced and the inadequacies and failings of individuals and governments to act, and in fact my own poorly implemented and limited attempts to do something! [ 235 more words ]

I think Drawdown had such a large effect on me because it actually showed metrics, not just concepts and made mitigating climate change a more concrete idea. It demonstrated the scalar impact we ca…

Here is a load of evidence from The Dirt that new designed ecologies are possible on a large scale and that they involve...
11/02/2019

Here is a load of evidence from The Dirt that new designed ecologies are possible on a large scale and that they involve code sign past the usual silo-like boundaries of academia and professional affiliation. The US Army Corps of Engineers who are often reviled for their failings e.g. in New Orleans , are here showing us that it is cheaper and more efficient to design with natural systems and flows than against them. [ 650 more words ]

Here is a load of evidence from The Dirt that new designed ecologies are possible on a large scale and that they involve code sign past the usual silo-like boundaries of academia and professional a…

While searching for some information on the Cradle To Cradle certification I came across this is article by William McDo...
05/02/2019

While searching for some information on the Cradle To Cradle certification I came across this is article by William McDonough in Nature and reviewed in Scientific American and summarised on his website William McDonough in the ICEhouse at the 2016 World Economic Forum. Credit: Marta Chierego This view an idea is relevant to the articles I have been posting on the site the last few weeks and to the idea of requiring all design to become CARBON POSITIVE as I state in feature post… [ 494 more words ]

While searching for some information on the Cradle To Cradle certification I came across this is article by William McDonough in Nature and reviewed in Scientific American and summarised on his web…

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