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| Landscape Architecture
Bob Moore and I joined forces for another field trip, combining our modules Appraising Landscapes and Sustainable Technology 1. We conducted our First Year students on a walking tour of Cheltenham, tracing the River Chelt along its route through the…
On a very wet Wednesday 8th October, with dramatic weather to match the drama of the scenery, the Postgraduate Landscape Planning students visited the Forest of Dean for a briefing from the Client (Nigel Gibbons and Alastair Chapman of the…
Last Thursday’s trip to the beautiful Cotswold countryside was a collaboration between our Appraising Landscapes and Sustainable Technology 1 modules. Following a section of the Cotswold Way, our First Year students were introduced to the methods of appraising the character…
We were blessed with glorious weather on Tuesday’s field trip to Lightmoor, deep in the Forest of Dean. This former colliery site is the focus of Sustainable Technology 2, a module exploring the environmental development of a brownfield, contaminated landscape…
As part of the Masters level module Landscape Design Studio the students visited Bristol, just 45 mins away on the train from Cheltenham. We visited four different site, of which the students need to choose one on which to base…
If anyone has the opportunity then get down to the Hauser and Wirth gallery in Bruton, Somerset this week to see the exhibition of Piet Oudolf’s drawings. It closes 5th October so this weekend is the last chance. You can…
The landscape 1st years and conversion students made a trip to Gloucester as part of the induction week activities. A walk through Gloucester centre demonstrated the incredible heritage and history that the city has, along with some of the problems…
Tuesday’s Induction Week project was an engaging and creative collaboration between our new first and Conversion year students in Landscape Architecture and Biology, Animal Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science. Their task: to create ‘bee hotels’ from a pile of household…
The artist Banksy is believed to be behind a piece of street art depicting three shadowy figures eavesdropping – three miles from the Government listening post GCHQ – in Hewlett Road. The artwork, which appeared in Cheltenham last week, depicts…