ABOUT

I am an artist, architect, researcher and educator. I work with fragile and disturbed landscapes, communities and ecologies to develop collaborative place-based projects and participatory methods that forefront more-than-human agency.

My research-led approach operates across diverse interdisciplinary knowledge practices, engaging with research institutions, specialists and local communities to explore landscapes as sites of multiple actors, voices, perspectives and agencies. I draw, design, make, talk, write, curate, perform and plant. I engage with interdisciplinary, alchemic and messy site-based processes, occupying the intertidal zone whenever possible, to act as a conduit for exchange.

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 Microscope, a shopfront gallery in Dalston. I recently returned from a residency in the Atacama Desert.

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 at kirstybadenoch@gmail.com

Exhibitions

Trespass, Non Gallery, Bucharest (2024)

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)

Selected 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)

Selected 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 8 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 (2024)

UCL Architectural Research Fund (2022)

Casa Ponis, Sardinia (2022)

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

Danish Arts Foundation Travel Scholarship (2013 - 2015)