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On RTE, award-winning duo Seán Duke and Colette Kinsell, present a new explorative series that looks at the ethics of how we live today. This weeks episode is ‘Designing Happiness’. One of the issues they discuss is the role of biophilic…
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…
To kick off the 3rd year Landscape and Community project Scott Farlow, the module tutor, has written a manifesto – available here … AD6601ConsiderThisManifesto
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…
Andrew Jones, Landscape Institute Education Officer gives a damn good presentation to our new first years and some of the conversion course students Thursday 25th September 2014. We had 25 students at the presentation but HEY it was 4.30p.m, and…
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…
Joe Clancy, a graduate of the course here at the University of Gloucestershire and currently writing his Masters thesis has written a fantastic article for Horticulture Connected entitled Rediscovering Biophilia, published in their June/July 2014 issue. Click here to download the…
I have recently spent two weeks in Java (Indonesia) and three days in Singapore. The visits to Bogor Botanic Gardens, Java, and the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, were of particular interest to me and are illustrated and described here.…