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What Happens Next? – former conversion student teaching about food…

Arthur Daw, former Conversion course student, has helped set up the What Happens Next? project in Bristol, with the aim of inspiring school children to grow, make and celebrate food. They are currently working with 25 youth clubs…

Designing Happiness – Biophilia on the radio

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…

Paul Hervey-Brookes to create garden at Philadelphia International Flower Show

Paul Hervey Brookes, who spent 2 years on the undergraduate landscape course here, has been asked to create a show garden at America’s biggest garden show – the Philadelphia International Flower Show. Paul’s design is inspired by The Lion,…

Obituary: Yvonne Young (UoG Graduate and co-founder of Illman Young)

Yvonne was born in Lions River, Natal, South Africa. She excelled in botany and drawing and had aspirations to be a botanist but settled on architecture.  At 16 she began her degree at the University of Witswatersrand in…

Rethinking the Urban Landscape Exhibition

Rethinking the Urban Landscape is a new exhibition curated by the Landscape Institute and The Building Centre in London, opening on 8th January 2015 and running until 10th February. Rethinking the Urban Landscape exemplifies how landscape architecture can…

UoG Student and Graduate help LDA Design win top LI Award

Current landscape student Jemma Hall (8th from left on the photo) and graduate Alex van der Nelson (5th from left) were both key members of the LDA Design team that won the top Landscape Institute Award this year…

Rediscovering Biophilia by Joe Clancy

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…