Terrain Talks 005: Waste Mapping Design Resources: Found, Discarded & Regenerative 7.00pm Thursday October 19th 2023 at Falmouth University (Woodlane Campus) (Bar + doors open at 6.30pm) BUY TICKETS HERE We invite you to join us for an evening event which discusses the theme of waste. In particular, we will be exploring how surplus products from our local landscapes have the potential to create opportunities for more circular building systems, at both strategic and practical levels. The three speakers are: Loretta Bosence, landscape architect at Local Works Studio Tom K ..read more

6:30pm Thursday September 7th 2023 at  Jubliee Hall in Chagford, Newton Abbott, Devon TQ13 8DP BUY TICKETS HERE The first lecture in the RESOURCE series – is based on the theme of water. In particular, the detrimental impact of historic industry and development on water courses and coastal areas. The speakers are: Jamie Roberts from the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust and Matthew Vaughn-Shaw, a Maritime Engineer from Buro Happold. They discuss how restoration projects and new developments can minimise or reverse this impact. Jamie Roberts ‘Water is the life force of everything we do here at ..read more

Dr David Hickie CMLI This blog post follows a discussion at the LI Members’ Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on 27th July 2o23. The discussion was about the organisational structure and charitable status of the Landscape Institute. David asks if they are part of the problem or part of the solution. I voted for Brodie McAllister as our President. I listened and read Brodie’s manifesto for the 2021 election and the others. All had ideas for taking the LI forward. But I was most impressed by Brodie’s vision for the LI. It seemed to be a modernising agenda and aligned with where I thought the L ..read more

Why didn’t Brodie McAllister become President of the Landscape Institute in 2022? On 28th June 2022 it looked as though the Board and Council of the LI had undemocratically removed President Elect Brodie McAllistair. Six past Presidents wrote to the LI about this. But as explained in the video (below) about Regulation 21.5 it is now apparent that his attempted removal was unlawful See also: Whistleblowing Disclosure to the CEO of the Landscape Institute Who is the 2022-24 President of the UK Landscape Institute LI? Jane Findlay is now past president and no other President has been named. So e ..read more

Brodie McAllister, turned away from the Landscape Institute Presidency to which the membership voted him This is the worst crisis in the 93-year history of the UK Landscape Institute. Please see this page for a set of Videos about the Landscape Institute Crisis and this page to see why 6 Past Presidents are so strongly opposed to the current leadership of the LI One can understand the desire to shovel stuff under carpets but the subject line of the email which informed members of the crisis was ridiculous. It was Update to Landscape Institute members on Advisory Council decision. The truth be ..read more

Landscape architecture, the arts, artists and the environment I’ve been making a set of 10+ videos to consider whether landscape architecture is a fine art and how it relates to land art, environmental art, ecological art etc. The videos will include debates, interviews, discussions and soliloquies. At least 10 of them should be published in 2021 ..read more

Right: Lambeth Cycling Strategy for the Oval area; Centre: Strava Metro data for the cycle flows in the Oval area Cycle network and route planning, as discussed, should be based on supply and demand. Cycle planners need to know where cyclists want to ride and they need to know what routes are feasible. The best available data on actual usage, and therefore a strong indicator of demand, is the data collected by the Strava App. The centre map, above, shows current cycle flows and is constantly updated.  It is a simple map and it shows the cycling network which should be built in this part o ..read more

I’m really pleased that the UK Landscape Institute has arranged for each of the 2021 election candidates to record a manifesto, as a video. See links to election manifesto videos on the LI website. It’s not so long since the only requirement was a CV with details of service on committees and notes on education and the candidate’s employment record. A manifesto, to quote the OED, is ‘a public declaration… or justification of policy’ issued by a candidate or an official. This is good. As set out on the Wikipedia entry for the Landscape Institute, it was set up in 1929, to promote landscape arch ..read more

The Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (GLVIA) are published by the UK Landscape Institute LI and used by landscape architects to assess the impact of development projects on the visual landscape and on the natural environment. This expert debate was held by the free journal LANDSCAPEmatters on 10th February 2021. It was introduced by Edward Hutchison and chaired by Tony Edwards. The speakers were the landscape architects Tom Robinson, Sally Marsh, Clare Brockhurst and a planning QC Charles Banner. Tom Robinson, who proposed the debate, believes the Landscape and Visual Ass ..read more

UK landscape architect’s interest in forestry is centuries old. John Evelyn did not use the term ‘landscape architect’ but he published a famous book Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in 1664, advocating and supporting extensive tree planting programmes. He hoped to do another book on the theory of garden design but did not complete it. A century later, picturesque theorists were greatly interested in forests and in the 1840s John Claudius Loudon, who I see as one of the key ‘fathers’ of landscape architecture, nearly bankrupted his family by producing  ..read more