Landscape Blog - January 2023

Our first profile pic for 2023 which came from Kayley Passingham (Art and the Environment).

#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #Art #Environment #Writtle #2023

Urban Territory Presentations

Our MALA students presented their Urban Territory final design projects for the invited jury of landscape architects and urban planners including Eoghan Sheils and Kate Collins from Sheilsflynn, John Latham from Wynne-Williams Associates, and Andy Bestwick from Chelmsford City Council.

Students had prepared design proposals for a climate-responsive and resilient Chelmsford for 2100.

#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #UrbanDesign #Writtle #Future #Design #Climate #Resilience #Chelmsford2100

Conversion students’ tree ident campus walk with Charlotte Power

Our MLA Landscape Architecture (conversion year) students kick off their 'Planting the Biophilic Landscape' project with a rather chilly tree identification walk on campus with WUC horticultural expert Charlotte Power.

#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #LandscapeDesign #Biophilia #Nature #CampusBeautification #Writtle #Masters #WUC #TimeForACuppa

Writtle Stories – Sam Moore and Gary Alden

As part of its Writtle Story series, WUC shared the stories of two successful Writtle graduates, Sam Moore and Gary Alden.

Sam Moore graduated from Writtle in 2018 after studying Horticulture and Landscape & Garden Design. He worked for award-winning companies before founding Consilium Hortus, an organisation offering bespoke garden design solutions. In 2022, he created The SunsLifestyle Outdoor Living Garden for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. 

You can read Sam's story here: https://writtle.ac.uk/pge_PressRelease.cfm?ID=21993

Gary Alden graduated in 2003 after studying Landscape and Garden Design at Writtle. Gary is now a senior associate at Townshend Landscape Architects, a studio based in Central London, with an established reputation for delivering high quality public realm schemes across a wide range of scales, both domestic and internationally.

Gary's story: https://writtle.ac.uk/pge_PressRelease.cfm?ID=22001

#WrittleSuccess #LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign

Landscape Blog - December 2022

At the start of #December it was time for a new profile pic, which was a cryptic image from Art and the Environment student Claire Jebbitt.

#Writtle #Art #Environment #LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign

 

Christmas Festivities

Yesterday students and staff from Landscape Architecture, Garden Design, and Art and the Environment had a joyful Christmas celebration with mulled wine and mince pies in our Design Studio.

#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #Art #Environment #Writtle #Design #Christmas

 

Graduate Meet-up

Recent Writtle graduates Charlie, Keely and Bob are all working in Landscape Architecture at AECOM. Though working in different offices, they were able to get together for the recent Landscape Institute Awards in London.

At Writtle University College we offer 1 year and 2 year courses in Landscape Architecture depending on your undergraduate degree, and both can set you on the pathway to chartership.

Find out more here: https://writtle.ac.uk/landscape

#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #Postgraduate #Writtle #Chelmsford #Chartership #London

 

Snow!

All the #snow in mid-December reminded us of the time some #LandscapeArchitecture and #GardenDesign students built an enormous badger buddha snowman. It even made the news!

#Writtle #MemoryMonday #snowman

Landscape Blog - November 2022

November has been another busy month for Landscape Architecture and Garden Design at Writtle.

We started the month with a new profile pic for our socials from MLA Landscape Architecture student Charlotte Wicker (conversion year).

Our Associate Lecturer / Technician Steve Jeyes found this amazing specimen on campus. #Nature on the #Writtle campus certainly made the most of the wet #November weather.

Pro Landscaper - 30 UNDER 30

Writtle graduates Oliver Bond and James Honey were named in this year's Pro Landscaper 30 under 30.

Oliver studied Landscape and Garden Design with us before completing our Masters in Landscape Architecture in 2017. As well as running Bond Landscape Design he has also appeared on BBC's Your Garden Made Perfect.

James studied Landscape Architecture with us and graduated in 2020. He is now Assistant Landscape Architect at Guarda Landscape Ltd.

#Congratulations both 🎉

#Writtle #Design #LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #ProLandscaper #30under30

Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping

Writtle graduate Bob Marshall returned to Writtle to deliver a lecture on Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping in landscape architecture research methods, along with hosting a workshop and a lively debate.

Bob is a Graduate Landscape Architect at AECOM, and he completed Writtle's MA Landscape Architecture in 2021, after first completing the Conversion year.

Want to study Landscape Architecture but have an unrelated degree? Check out the MA with Conversion here: https://writtle.ac.uk/landscape

#Writtle #Design #LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #Research

Biodiversity Netgain

Principal Environmental Scientist Simon Allen from Mott McDonald gave a lecture to some Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students about Biodiversity Net Gain and its application and use in the landscape and environmental projects. We gained an insight into the processes of BNG and valuable information about the importance and its role for the future.

#BiodiversityNetGain #BNG #Nature #Science #Writtle #MottMcDonald #Future #Environment #LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign

Barcham Trees

We were very lucky to spend a fascinating day at Barcham Trees in Cambridgeshire. Managing Director Mike Glover gave the students a fascinating tour around their 300-acre site, and he also explained the Environmental Credit Rating that they have been able to apply to all of the trees they produce.

#Trees #Writtle #Design #Environment #LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #Carbon #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolution