9 October - Programme Day 1
9.00 Registration and Coffee
9.30 Welcome and Introduction
Alastair McCapra, Chief Executive, Landscape Institute
9.35
Iain Wright MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Communities and Local Government
10.00 Hungry City - How Food Shapes Our Lives
Carolyn Steel, Director, Cullum and Nightingale Architects
Cities cover just 2% of the world’s surface but consume 75% of the world’s resources. One third of the world’s grain harvest is fed to livestock, and meat production is set to double buy 2050. Carolyn Steel, lecturer and author of Hungry City looks at the crucial relationship between food and cities and asks what is land for and how do we decide on its best uses?
10.35 Design, Environment and the Enterprising Community.
Professor Robert Tregay, LDA Design.
With a wealth of experience of designing landscape schemes in both the public and private sector, Robert Tregay will be focussing on masterplanning and delivery; green infrastructure, traditional public realm; locally-grown food; transport and integrating infrastructure. He will also be outlining his latest thinking on how new housing developments work as economic entities and on how transport can be better managed and delivered.
11.20 Coffee
11.45 Seminars
Each seminar will explore the collaborative approach required to create good quality landscape for housing developments. All seminars will be repeated after lunch. Detailed descriptions are on the seminars page.
1 Code Level 6 and the Significance of Landscape
2 'Retrofitting' new landscape within existing housing estates
3 New landscapes for social housing
4 Tackling flood risk in the creation of new estates
5 Housing environments for older people
1.15 Lunch
2.00 Seminars
1 Code Level 6 and the Significance of Landscape
2 'Retrofitting' new landscape within existing housing estates
3 New landscapes for social housing
4 Tackling flood risk in the creation of new estates
5 Housing environments for older people
3.30 Tea
4.00 Creating places where people want to live
Karin Woodley, Chief Executive, The Stephen Lawrence Trust
Karin Woodley will address the role of all of the built environment professions in creating places where people want to live; creating spaces where people can be visibly part of their community, meet, play and relax; and outline the ways in which The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust is tackling these issues.
4.30 Landscape architecture, housing and the Thames Gateway
Sir Terry Farrell, Terry Farrell and Partners
Terry Farrell will outline the crucial issues that need to be tackled in the ongoing collaborations between landscape architecture, planning and architecture and in particular his hopes for the Thames Gateway.
5.00 End of the first day of the conference
5.15 Student walk and entertainment
Meet in Herringham Hall for a trip to South Bank followed by dinner
6.30 President's Dinner and Drinks Reception
Keynote speaker: John Hopkins, Project Sponsor, Parklands and Public Realm. Olympic Delivery Authority
Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park