Course Visits and Trips

  In anticipation of a more detailed presentation on this blog and not wishing to preempt any specific highlights of the recent international trip to Italy, I have made a quick selection of my top ten memories and present them…

A visit to Gloucester: from the Cathedral to the Docks On Tuesday 30th of January, we had very inspiring visit of the city centre of Gloucester. The students of the module AD5602: Landscape Urbanism discovered the site of their projects…

Dr. Carla Molinari who gained her PhD from Sapienza University in the city and Bob Moore will be guiding students on a trip to Rome.

Half-way through the first semester, it is time to address the main project for our first-year students in the module Appraising Landscapes. So far we have looked mainly at things scientific: soils, rocks, microclimate, ecology… These are some of the…

The forecast said it would be overcast and dry, but the trip to Lightmoor in the Forest of Dean turned out to be rather damp. In fact we measured the relative humidity at over 95%. Pretty damp. Partly the result…

The best way of fully appreciating a landscape, its physical make-up, the wild-life, the character and  hidden meanings, is to walk through it. So much more detail can be seen, there’s  an intimate experience of the small scale, you hear…

FINDING YOUR FEET an induction week walkabout Although early morning mist seemed a bad omen, by late morning the sun had warmed up the Cheltenham air and the induction class was blessed with near perfect weather to undertake an introductory…

The latest visit of the professional practice module was to the recently restored walled garden within the Museum in the Park, Stroud. We were met by Ann Taylor of the museum and Rachael Austin who was responsible for the design…