This blog is about a landscape architect student studying at ECA (Edinburgh College of Art) and currently on exchange in Guelph, Canada, this blog will focus on exploration and the experiences, insights and reflections during this exchange here in Canada.
I have been told on several occasions by different lecturers and visiting professionals in the educational system that landscape architecture is a lot of things, but "...it's not art". A statement that sometimes feels a bit narrowed minded to make, but can hold some truth to it. //-Jacob

Oyster-tecture

I found this video on TED.com (a really good site for interesting presentations and lectures). It is from architect Kate Orff on a project reviving the rivers in New York using oysters to clean up pollutants in the water.



This holds a special interest to me since it is similar with the project I am dealing with right now on in the harbour of Owen Sound. Now I'm not going to use mussels or oysters in my project but it made me research the matter a bit further. Lake Huron, connecting with Owen Sound through Gerogian Bay, has a problem with invasive species of Zebra Mussels, not native to the waters. But there is two sides of this coin since the Zebra mussels at the same time is filtering and cleaning up the pollutants in the water. Well the TED-talk is well worth watching!
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