Most of us are inescapably surrounded by built-up, man-made environments. Rather than wish for untouched wilderness, why not embrace the potential that already exists to create a new kind of wild?
Steve Williams and Jon Davies, the landscape designers behind Wild City Studio, explain how industrial materials can be the key to a beautifully unruly space
We first got to know each other at the Hampton Court Flower Show in 2017, the year Jon won a gold medal for an urban food forest garden (it also won Best Garden For A Changing World), and Steve was part of the team behind Martyn Wilson’s gold-medal-winning garden based on an urban brownfield site. The melding of these ideas – urban food forest and brownfield gardening – would become the foundation of our work thereafter.
Together, as Wild City Studio, we live by an optimistic vision for a wilder urban landscape, one that provides affordable and interactive ways for people to connect to, and look after, the urban land around us.
The idea is that you don’t need to spend
