Revealing the layers of landscape: Archeologies of Essex

Maria Medlycott from Place Services of the Essex County Council

Final speaker of our Landscape Talks series at Writtle University College was Maria Medlycott, the senior historic landscape consultant at Place Services in Chelmsford. In her fascinating talk, Maria talked about the historic landscape analysis process and its usage in the landscape planning and evaluation. As an experienced archaeologist, Maria showed students and staff some of her projects including Hatfield Forest and Coastal Grazing Marsh Project where the detailed historic analysis throughout the centuries revealed insights into the cultural, social, ecological and economical factors that made up the contemporary landscapes we see, appreciate and engage in Essex.

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Best Student Portfolio Award winner!

Michael Ekers with his award at the Landscape Institute Awards Ceremony in London

 Michael Ekers of Writtle University College has won the #LIAward for #Student #Portfolio! Michael who is studying MA Landscape Architecture at WUC presented his three years of undergraduate landscape architecture course work to the jury. 

Judges said: 'INDULGE ME demonstrates a great degree of #creativity, both in the topics developed and in the way of #communicating #ideas.'

Congratulations Michael!

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Best MA Dissertation Awards

Ilbin Yoon from Writtle University Design with gardens for visually impaired

Ilbin's prototypes fro design applications

Writtle University College, MA Landscape Architecture student Ilbin Yoon received the highly commanded award for his MA Dissertation in the best student dissertation category at the Landscape Institute Awards 2018.

AN #INCLUSIVE #URBAN #PARK FOR ALL PEOPLE by Ilbin Yoon, Writtle University College. Research is investigating the challenges faced by #visuallyimpaired people when navigating #landscape#design and building a case for multi-#sensory #landscapes.⠀

The Jury said: "A well -structured and clearly set out dissertation, focusing on an important topic that can easily be ignored: the consideration of the needs of people with visual impairment within the landscape design process."

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