The Some Kind of Nature atelier adopts a post-humanist approach, drawing inspiration from the writings of Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, Rosi Braidotti, and others. Our roots lie in the feminist posthumanist philosophy. Our primary focus is a response to the ongoing climate crisis, which we consider the greatest challenge facing both the profession and humanity. By embracing a post-humanist framework, we decentre humans and emphasise relationships.

The focus of our atelier has been on context, preferring multifunctional briefs aimed at an in-depth understanding of tangible expressions of human and non-human relationships expressed through space, materiality, technology, and time. We regard demolition and extensive earth modulation as acts of violence, asserting that all energy embedded in the construction process must be accounted for and justified.

This year’s theme, Museum as a typology and idea, examined questions of preservation, value and memory through the lens of the atelier’s agenda. Students were encouraged to approach the museum not simply as a building, but as a landscape-based construct rooted in socio-ecological understanding, whether as a repository of collective memory, a posthuman ecological archive or an evolving, living system shaping experience and perception.

The project site on Pomona Island in Manchester was shared with BA3 and MArch2 students, enabling interdisciplinary exploration. The final outputs reflect deep engagement with chosen issues, iterative experimentation and testing, and resolved landscape architectural responses supported by critical reflection on process, methodology and tools.

The final outputs of their research journey demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the issue of their interest, a continuous experimentation and testing process, a resolved and sophisticated landscape architectural response with a critical reflection on the process, methodology and tools.