BIG Landscape Conference 2020

In case some of you haven't heard about this conference taking place in London on the 1-3 July, I thought I better send a quick post. There is still time to apply and the line-up for speakers and workshops is looking very good now.

If you can't make the whole weekend you are able to pay for the Friday separately. I really hope some of you can make it, I am sure it will be worth it and you will find it interesting meeting other students studying Landscape Architecture from all over the UK, hopefully other countries too.

I will be helping on the day so if you do want to know more or need any help just email me laurakateparsons@hotmail.co.uk

End of Year Party

Thanks to those who organised and attended the annual Landscape Awards and party. It was lovely to have such a happy send-off to the year.

waiting for our dinner!

After food it was time for the awards - too numerous to mention - suffice to say there were some funny stories. And I can't resist posting a picture of one of the prizes...

Mr Inappropriate

Thanks to everyone for all your hard work over the year, and best of luck for the next!

Have a look at the lovely website radical cartography - lots of food for thought.


Bill Rankin is a historian and cartographer. His mapping activity is focused on reimagining everyday urban and territorial geographies by pushing techniques of statistical information design and rethinking everyday cartographic conventions. His maps have appeared in several publications and exhibitions, including articles in Perspecta, Harvard Design Magazine, and National Geographic and shows at Harvard University, Pratt Institute, and the Toronto Images Festival; several of his maps are also traveling with ICI’s “Experimental Geographies” show through 2011. Most of his cartography can be seen on his website, www.radicalcartography.net. His historical research is about the changing technologies of cartography and navigation in the twentieth century. He is currently finishing a PhD on this topic at Harvard, and will begin teaching in the history of science program at Yale in the fall of 2011.

Agriculture Bill Rankin 2007

National Ecosystem Assessment

Very interesting item of news on BBC, well worth looking at as it may have a significant impact on our profession, the kinds of work we get involved in, how it is valued and how it is perceived in the future. Your thoughts would be worth hearing!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13616543

Eddy