November 7, 2019

On 19 September 2019 the Landscape Architecture Symposium took place at the University of Guelph in Canada. A full house of students (graduates and undergraduates), faculty, and professionals gathered to listen and engage with an array of talented, well- accomplished international speakers, among which BAM’s own Allison Dailey. Each speaker presented a range of creative scholarly work with a focus on landscape representations and data visualization.

Allison Dailey was the third speaker in this event. Allison showcased some of BAM’s playful yet critical works in the public realm, among which the award-winning Daxing Park and the flagship Guomao intersection. She spoke about ‘intuition method’ for landscape architects based on Bergsonian philosophy and about an approach called DoodleTech which Allison developed and taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Doodling is often explained as absent-minded scribbling of no purpose. BAM sees the Doodle as a portal through which Intuition can be channeled and visualized in its purest form. Intuition then can become a method to address design problems. As such DoodleTech is the process of intuitive-analytical thought as expressed through doodles, resulting in visceral, spatial and material propositions.

The best thing is – anyone can doodle. All it takes is to let go of reason and aesthetic judgement and observe whatever happens. BAM believes in the power of the Doodle. In fact, one of BAM’s earliest and most expressive projects is a doodle taken seriously all the way till the construction site. BAM!

Recently, BAM transformed another Doodle into a theoretical urbanism system - the Super Green Road. Super Green Road links the entire city of Lai’an into one park network. Watch the Doodle evolve into a real-life project!