Camassia Bruce

Just like the instinctive wanderings of the human and the animal, our landscapes too have seen their terrain move with time. A terrain guided by what the human has inflicted upon it, where the animal moves in tandem, and where the human has been guided by the landscape once dictated by the human itself. It subtly shifts between land - plant - animal - human. A cyclical movement, this often goes unnoticed.

As Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow has long doffed its hat to the River Clyde whose historic memories rest amongst industrial provenance. We bypass this, however, and take a fork in the waters, looking instead to the River Kelvin and a history within industry largely washed away. Representing a brackish reality, the saline waters of the Clyde intermingle with the fresh of the Kelvin’s, but simultaneously go unnoticed from the vantage point of its surface. In this secretive balancing act amongst the flows, environmental responsibilities are equally juggled with social resonance, where, like the nomad, the spaces designed here are not to be tethered into defining roles, more so to be sought out as places accessible for councils projects, community groups, exhibitions, and recreational occasion.

The thread of water is ultimately what links land - plant - animal - human. This instinctive sense that draws all four counterparts in their quest for survival, carefully sewn together in the complex web that is life. The Nomadic Landscapes project channels this guiding force to unearth the Kelvin’s future as a practitioner in a new industry : of culture, creativity, and a sensitivity to our landscape and its many inhabitants.