Predicting a future scenario in 2080, where the use of motorised vehicles on UK roads is a bygone era, Wilding the Vergelands explores the potential re-use of the abandoned A1 road infrastructure as part of a landscape scale ecosystem connecting people, places and nature through mobility. Referencing the traditional coaching inn, a new infrastructure of stage posts line and occupy the Great North Road as an interlaced network of community nodes, born from the need to provide amenities to forgotten edgeland communities, to pilgrims undertaking the 410 mile journey and as a measurement of distance and vergeland biodiversity.

(Studio 01; This Enduring Landscape: Debatable Edges)