Lessons from the terraces – travels in the Philippine Cordilleras
MA Landscape Architecture student Charles Lamb is one of the two winners of the 2016 Landscape Institute Student Travel Award. Charles travelled to the Philippines to research indigenous forms of water management in the Cordilleras, the chain of mountain ranges in the northern region of the island of Luzon.
Ross Cameron hosts this years’ “RHS John MacLeod Annual Lecture”
Held every autumn, this influential RHS lecture invites prominent speakers to explore important horticultural issues. Hosted by the RHS at the Lindley Hall in London, the John MacLeod Annual Lecture was created to highlight important and inspiring topics on horticultural science. Read more…
(video) Children’s Outdoor Play Opportunities in Chinese cities
Helen Woolley hosted an inspiring 15 minute talk in which she explored Children’s Outdoor Play Opportunities in Chinese cities during the “Young People and the ‘New Urban Agenda’: addressing key themes of Habitat lll” conference in Birmingham on 14-15 September 2016. Helen draws on her experiences in China and offers a window into the differences of play opportunities provided to children between China and other parts of the world.
(video) Facilitating Children’s Outdoor Play in Post-Disaster contexts
Helen Woolley hosted an inspiring 15 minute talk on Facilitating Children’s Outdoor Play in Post-disaster contexts during the “Young People and the ‘New Urban Agenda’: addressing key themes of Habitat lll” conference in Birmingham on 14-15 September 2016. Helen takes the audience through the effects of the triple disaster in Japan and illustrates the vital importance of play for children in these post-disaster situations.
Landscape Research Helps City Project Scoop Top Awards
The awards cabinet is growing for Sheffield’s new Grey to Green regeneration programme – after it scooped two coveted Yorkshire In Bloom awards.
The Grey to Green scheme, inspired by University of Sheffield landscape research, which has turned a redundant former Read more…
