Living Landscapes is an landart and landscape architecture practice that focuses on self-generating, sustainable, and biodiverse environments.
The practise works on climate adaptive landscapes, strategic planning, and art interventions in public space.
Living Landscapes is selected for the Young Innovators Program of the board of government advisors (atelier Rijksbouwmeesters). We will work on a strategy for 1000 ha of new forest for the province of South Holland.
From April till June Mirte van Laarhoven will be part of the Sundaymorning@ekwc residency program. She will develop a series of habitat elements. Functional sculptures to live in or on. These elements will consist out of tree trunks with a ceramic topping.
Short video portrait about my work, as part of the talent development program by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie. ‘I suggest small interventions which influence systems on a large scale. Those small interventions not only make the landscape more accessible for human visits, but also stimulate biodiversity.’
The island of Texel wanted to move towards a more sustainable future. A unique challenge as Texel combines all the different Dutch landscape qualities.
Biodiversity experiment, where native planting becomes exotic, by sailing the world, acclimatising to different destinations.
Brabant is characterised by a mosaic of cities, forests and agricultural land. These different fragments are interwoven bij a refined water structure; a true nature network with high potential.
In this former estuary new impulses are created to improve the water quality, its marine life and the recreational facilities. The Underwater Forest taps into these developments.
At this location the Rhine river enters the Netherlands. Here an old river basin shows traces of its original DNA. An opportunity to distill guidelines for more climate adaptive landscape development.
Eastern Groningen is a region that faces different challenges both on land and underwater, caused by gas mining and harbour activities. The challenges aren't easy to solve, but it does fuel interesting innovations.
In this bend the river Waal and river Meuse nearly congregate, with sandy shores and extensive routing along the dikes, a perfect location for a Living-River pilot by WWF.
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