Kevin Thwaites

BA, DipLA(Dist), PhD

Senior Lecturer
Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield
email: [email protected]

Research interests and activities focus on two main themes which are integrated into approaches to research-led-teaching. Theory and philosophy of urban landscape design and their impact on the intellectual underpinning and conceptual development of design processes and spatial languages; Socially sustainable approaches to planning and design in urban open spaces, particularly how spatial and experiential dimensions converge to influence psychological health and well-being.

These general areas of interest converge in Experiential Landscape and Socially Restorative Urbanism, a research stream concerned with applying an integrated approach to human-environment relations to place making in urban open space settings.