Designing using Games

3rd year Landscape and Garden Design students specialising in planting design share and discuss their ideas of using medicinal plants in gardens, and as a game to help teach those who might need to understand their therapeutic qualities.

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Visions for the Future

Final year undergraduate Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students presented their Design Dissertation ‘Visions for the Future’ last week during a festive celebration in the design studio at WSD. Guests voted on their favourite schemes and on the clear articulation of ideas, posting positive feedback directly onto the work.

Many congratulations to our prize winners:

    1st was Keely Williams with ‘Nature’s Playground - A Place for Everyone'
    2nd was Maho Toida with ‘Healing Landscapes, Resilient Communities’
    3rd was Heejung Chu with 'Blurring the Boundaries Between Streets and Parks'

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MA Landscape Architecture and Garden Design present to Chelmsford City Council - Sandford Mill: A New Destination for Chelmsford City

Earlier this week MA Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students presented their designs for "Sandford Mill: A New Destination for Chelmsford City" in the Marconi suite at Chelmsford Civic Centre.

The ‘jury’ included from Chelmsford City Council: Cllr Goldman (Deputy Leader of the Council), Cllr Fuller, Keith Nicholson (Director of Public Places), Paul Van Damme (Parks and Heritage Services Manager), Urban Design Head Andy Bestwick and Urban Planner Luke Worsfold.

Those that would have liked to attend but weren’t able were: Cllr Robinson (Leader of the Council), David Green (Director of Sustainable Communities), Jeremy Potter (Spatial Planning Services Manager) and Julie Broere (Senior Planning Officer and Case Officer for Sandford Mill and East Chelmsford Development).

In addition, the jury also included: Mehron Kirk (Landscape Architecture Director at BDP London), Oliver Lee (Director at The Landscape Partnership London) and Sue Whitely (Landscape Architect) were present as the expert jury for the projects.

The project has generated a lot of interest in the city council and in the next phase the MA group will attend workshops in developing and planning green infrastructure with the river corridors and the Sandford Mill area.

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Sir David Attenborough at the Landscape Institute Awards 2019

At the Landscape Institute Awards 2019 guest of honour Sir David Attenborough gave an inspirational speech on the climate and biodiversity crisis.

Sir David received the Landscape Institute Medal for Lifetime Achievement and became an Honorary LI Fellow at the prestigious event, which marked the 90th birthday of the Institute.

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Landscape Talk - Peter Piet

At the latest Landscape Lecture on Monday Landscape Architect Peter Piet gave a fascinating talk to our students and staff about complete streetscape framework and its importance in place-making.

Peter emphasised the street's identity as a place rather than merely a connector, and gave examples from his projects explaining that balancing the competing needs and interest in the public realm is always a challenge but also a great opportunity to make better places for designers.

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LAGD Design Evaluation Reports

3rd year Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students are presenting their design evaluation reports to their peers and tutors in the design studio. Projects include wetland centres, river restoration, post-industrial landscapes and nature playscapes.

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Centering Labyrinths in an Academic Environment with Veriditas Faculty Lars Howlett and Steve Terry

Back in November Landscape Architecture & Garden Design lecturer Steve Terry was interviewed by Lars Howlett of Veriditas. The recording of their webinar conversation can be seen at the link below.

https://youtu.be/uZmurW4JKjE

This is the fourth in a series of webinars about Labyrinths in Higher Education. The full set can be viewed here: https://www.veriditas.org/higher-ed

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