Sleegers, Frank

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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Plan
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Sleegers
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Frank Sleegers teaches design studios in landscape architecture and urban design.
Sleegers research and creative work fall into two areas: The first one is phytoremediation as landscapes of sensual experiences and green infrastructure. The second area is the building and organizing of site specific ephemeral art work in urban environments. Both are explored in his interdisciplinary Urban Design Laboratory as alternative strategies for urban renewal.
Frank Sleegers is a practicing landscape architect with an office in Hamburg, Germany. Contributing to the livability of city life, his professional work includes numerous award winning competitions in urban design, parks, and plazas. Built works in landscape architecture include intimate gardens, roof top gardens, and renewal of urban and regional parks. They are generated by the use of narrative images, transformed to make the landscape legible, and create a sense of place for people.
Prior to joining LARP in 2006, Frank Sleegers was a lecturer for landscape architecture design at the Department for Urban Planning - HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany from 2002 to 2005.
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    Phytoremediation as Green Infrastructure and a Landscape of Experiences
    Sleegers, Frank
    The idea of reconciling landscapes through remediation is not new to the discipline of landscape architecture. However the potential of using transformative remediation to build urban form as a large-scale landscape network and that makes the process of remediation part of an urban landscape experience is still underdeveloped in theory and practice. This paper examines how a remediation process could be exhibited and become a staged design element, and how landscapes of cleaning can become part of the urban infrastructure to create new neighborhoods for research, education, working, and living. The example of two adjacent sites on the contaminated Elbe – Island in Hamburg, Wilhelmsburg Germany demonstrates how the purification process of water and soils can be showcased and experienced by the public and how the landscape framework becomes part of the urban infrastructure. The paper proposes a structural landscape framework for how remediation could become an artistic, aesthetically pleasing intervention with environmental value.