2014 Field Tour: Vertical Studio Day

The School of Landscape Architecture held its 2014 ‘Vertical Studio’ in the Canterbury Museum. 120 students and staff converged on the Bird Hall to spend a day working through a design challenge ‐ the proposed Children’s Sensory Garden which will be built in March next year in the Botanic Gardens between the old Café kiosk, the Children’s playground and the entrance bridge. The project was introduced to the students by Kelly Dugan of SmileDial (who is the vision behind the idea) and they spent the day exploring their own senses through interactive activities courtesy of Jacky Bowring, Mike Barthelmeh, Bianca Van Rangelrooy, Shona Mardle and Charlotte Murphy, as well as inadvertently mixing and meeting with students across all four years of the programme. It was an exciting day for one and all with the sensory experiences coming out of the day now going forward into the next phase of planning for a world class Sensory Garden in Christchurch.