On Tuesday the 13/10/09 the day after the Teach-in lecture all the participants from Kingston met at the university to be part of an exercise that would get our sustainability and designing thoughts and skills together. We were also joined by many professionals and keen sustainability activist and members of transition towns. The session I felt was a productive exercise, the day started with us all going through numerous briefs and scenarios. We then moved into small groups to work on one brief per group. My group decided to tackle vertical farming and gardens which is something I feel very passionate and excited about as large city’s and towns have an incredible amount of space such as the roofs and walls of any structure, which could be come green and be fantastic for the environment helping soak up the pollution. At first the groups were only built up of landscape students from level 5 and 6 but after a few hours various other courses joined in until we presented our finale thoughts and ideas. Our group’s main inspiration for the day was French artist Patrick Blanc; I have added an image of his to the blog to show how amazing his work and plant life can make a building. The image is of le mur vegetal in Paris France, the vegetation brings the building to life as if it is a lung for the city or as forgotten structure from a past civilisation. We later discovered Patrick Blanc’s methods aren’t a hundred percent green as he uses pvc Plastic in the construction which is one of the worst plastics for the environment, but at least he is going in the right direction for greening the cities and making them a fantastic green space. 
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