ABOUT

I am an artist, architect, researcher and educator working with fragile and disturbed landscapes, territories, communities and ecologies. I draw, design, make, talk, write, perform and plant. I do art, research, teaching, community design and environmental strategy. I engage with interdisciplinary, alchemic and messy site-based processes. I occupy the intertidal zone whenever possible, acting as a conduit for exchange. Through all of these actions, I seek to interrogate situations of environmental injustice and advocate toward a shared ecological future.

I am currently working in the old growth forest with art critic / writer Tom Jeffreys, building a community garden on a construction site with Periscope and UCL biochemical engineering, and curating a shopfront gallery in Dalston. My last exhibition was at Staffordshire St, Peckham in November 2023.

In 2021 I co-curated the Cartographies of the Imagination Festival of Drawing, an experimental collaboration of events engaging with arts practitioners and local community groups.

I currently teach BSc Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies (Design and Creative Practice) MSci Architecture and research thesis for MA Landscape Architecture at The Bartlett, UCL.

I hold a Masters degree in Architecture from Aarhus School of Architecture, and a BA(Hons) degree in Architecture from The University of Liverpool. I have helped shape leading Landscape Architecture and Urbanism practices across London, Denmark and Norway. I am a member of The Landscape Research Group, ARB and Greenpeace, and volunteer with a number of local green spaces including the East London Waterworks Park, Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston, and my estate community vegetable garden.

Say hi ——-> kirstybadenoch@gmail.com

Exhibitions

Falling / Fallen / Felled / Stafforshire St, Peckham (2023)

A Meeting with Eldfell / Safnahus Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland (2023)

Microscope, Dalston (Curator, 2022 - current)

Riparian Score, The River Lea / Microscope, London (2022)

The Garden Transcripts, Kyoto / Omved Gardens, London (2021)

Disappearing Islands, Group Show, Menier Gallery / London (2018)

EBB\\ //FLOW, Buddenbrooks Gallery, Copenhagen (2018)

Aqua Fluxus, Arts, Letters and Numbers, Albany New York (2017)

Talks / Conferences

Research Beyond Words, University of Lyon (2023)

Research Methods, MSci, Bartlett School of Architecture (2023)

Dirty Drawings, University of Kent Istanbul (2023)

Creative Enquiry, University of Sheffield (2023)

Un-choreographing the Drawing, UQAM, Montreal (2022)

Think like a Forest, (Facilitator) Omved Gardens, Highgate (2022)

Cartographies of the Imagination Forum (Host) Omved Gardens, Highgate (2021)

Writings / Publications

On an Island in a loch on an island in a loch, co-author with Tom Jeffreys, Mouldy Books (2023)

Soiled Sights: Compromised Visions Journal, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar (upcoming, 2023)

Cartographies of the Imagination, co-editor with Sayan Skandarajah (2021)

The Garden Transcripts: Where the Leaves Fall, Issue 2 (2021)

Green for Victory journal series, co-author, Periscope (2021)

Drawing Futures, UCL Press (2016)

Workshops / Teaching

Unbuild / The Drawing Room (Oct 2023)

Growing Philip Street Garden / Whitmore Community Centre (May 2023)

Granby Square: University of Liverpool Vertical Studio (Jan 2023)

Drawing: Methods and Processes, BA(Hons) Design, Goldsmiths (2021 - 2023)

Drawing Matter Summer School (2021 - 2022)

MA Landscape Architecture: Design Studio and Thesis / The Bartlett UCL (2021 / 2023)

BA(Hons) Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies: Design and Creative Practice / The Bartlett UCL (2019 - current)

Residencies / Awards

La Wakaya Current, Atacama Desert (upcoming, 2024)

Bartlett Architectural Research Fund (2022)

Casa Ponis, Sardinia (2022)

Arts, Letters and Numbers, Albany New York (2017)

Danish Arts Foundation Travel Scholarship (2013 - 2015)