Bringing Nature into the City: Place and Health in the time of COVID-19

Ahead of our in-person CPD events in 2021, this series of live CPD sessions will look at a landscape-led response to the COVID-19 crisis.The issue of how we use, design and manage highways and green spaces has rarely been so prominent in the public mind. From reusing street space to investing in city farms, Landscape, the journal of the Landscape Institute, examines these topics and – for the first time ever – invites some of its writers to share their views with a live audience.

Led by expert speakers from across the globe, gain an insight into:

• Global public realm pandemic responses, with examples from the USA, Scandinavia, India and Germany
• The role and state of parks – and the impact of closing a national park in British Columbia
• Healthy play and international comparisons on the design of playgrounds and forest schools
• Responses to the need to change highway layouts and the space allocated to cyclists and pedestrians
• The impact of a city farm on economically deprived communities

Thursday 9th July

10:30-11:00

Welcome and keynote

Jane Findlay, CMLI PLI president of the Landscape Institute

Christopher Pincher MP, Minister of State, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

11:05 – 12:05

International perspective

Romy Rawlings, LI honorary secretary, director, Vestre

Sandeep Menon, landscape architect and faculty member, KRVIA, Mumbai, India

Lydia Mynott, landscape architect, park planner Metro Vancouver Regional Parks, British Columbia, Canada

12:20 – 13:20

Changing spaces and places

Oliver Goodhall, Co-founding Partner, architecture and urbanism practice, We Made That

Meredith Whitten, LSE postdoctoral fellow, London School of Economics

Carole Wright, community gardener, Peabody Square

Howard Grey, Green Blue Urban

Friday 10 July

10:30 -11:15

Carolyn Steel, architect and author of the newly published Sitopia

‘Seeing the world through the lens of food’

11:30 – 12:15

Polly Emmott, deputy manager, Bath City Farm

Gabrielle Appiah, project coordinator, Soundings

Beth Cooper, creative play consultant, Timberplay

12:45-13:45

Mary Jackson, project director, Learning Through Landscapes

Annie Surtees, parks and streetscene manager, Salford City Council

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