30 Years of Urban Ecology in London’s Docklands Sunday 27 Novemeber 1-4pm

Sound Camp works with place and sound, especially live listening, as a way of exploring and making links between locations. This week end Sound Camp invites you to join them on a walk exploring the sounds and ecology of Docklands via two iconic points:
William Curtis, Britain’s first urban ecology park, was set up on a former lorry park by the Trust for Urban Ecology in 1977. When it closed in 1985, a new piece of land was identified on the Rotherhithe peninsula, which became Stave Hill Ecological Park.
This walk takes us from one site to the other, exploring their impact on biodiversity in the city and the development of urban ecology worldwide. To help us piece together this trajectory, we are joined by David Goode, former Director of the London Ecology Unit, Southwark Ecology Officer, Jon Best and artists from soundCamp, who have been researching the history of Stave Hill over the past year.
We will review Flora Londinensis – an artist’s book commissioned by William Curtis in 1777 to assist lay people in identifying urban plants. We will work with historical images and maps to identify the original site of the William Curtis Ecological Park and listen for the impacts of these interventions, as we walk through the peninsula’s soundscapes.
We will stop for tea and visit the collections of the Rotherhithe Picture Library, and finish at the SHED at Stave Hill, 10 minutes from Canada Water.

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