Project longlisted for prestigious Davidson Prize
Landscape colleague, Stef Leach has been working as part of a multidisciplinary team on a submission for this year’s Davidson Prize.
2 May 2025
Last week, the team were informed that their project ‘Positive Disturbance – Realising Brownfield Potential’ has been longlisted.
This year’s Davidson Prize theme is Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes. This theme called for inventive solutions to address the UK’s ambitious goal of building 1.5million homes over the next five years.
Positive Disturbance – Realising Brownfield Potential
The project is centred on a brownfield site in Gateshead. Brownfield refers to previously developed land that has been abandoned or seen to be underused.
Involving nine different practitioners, the project focusses on the role of housing in enriching a landscape rather than erasing it. This encourages coexistence between humans, wildlife and ecology.
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Stef is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture in our School. Her research is particularly interested in places that provide social and ecological justice for all peoples and species.
Stef commented:
‘It’s amazing to see our work recognised in the longlist alongside some other amazing North-East based projects. It’s exciting to see that there’s so much potential for innovative ways of combining human habitation with wildlife.”
Learn more about the project
How you can get involved
This year’s People’s Choice Prize is now open for voting! Cast your vote on one of the 16 longlisted entries: voting closes on Monday 28 April at 6pm.
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About The Davidson Prize
The annual Davidson Prize is organised by The Alan Davidson Foundation. It recognises transformative architecture of the home and promotes compelling visual communication. Winning projects will receive funding to the value of £25,000.