Landscape architect based in London. Founded Wayward Plants, a collective of designers, artists, guerrilla gardeners and urban growers that create spaces of exchange for plants, collecting stories and bringing together communities. Commissioned by the Architecture Foundation to design and produce the Union Street Urban Orchard for the London Festival of Architecture 2010 - transforming a derelict site into a temporary orchard built by over 100 volunteers. Currently producing the Urban Physic Garden, a pop-up apothecary and community-built garden of medicinal plants. Exhibited internationally including the Barbican London, the Canadian Centre for Architecture Montreal, the Graham Foundation Chicago and the Metis International Garden Festival in Quebec. Senior Editor of Archinect since 2005.
D.I.R.T. Studio, Mon, Oct 2 '06
I like to think that Julie Bargmann fights the good fight. She grew up cruising through the New Jersey Turnpike, under powerlines, past the oil refineries and through America's dumping ground, The Meadowlands. Now she dedicates her research and practice, D.I.R.T. (Dump It Right There) Studio, to ...
Wayward Plants, Creative Director
Creating imaginative responses, facilitating social exchanges and community co-design processes for derelict sites, interim spaces and underutilized land.
