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Biophilic Design – Masters student Joe Clancy publishes 2 papers

Joe Clancy, current Masters student on the Landscape Architecture course here at the university, has now published 2 papers. The first is entitled 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design – Improving Health and Well-Being in the Built Environment and…

Trip to Wistley Hill & Lineover Wood

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…

Manifesto: Landscape & Community

To kick off the 3rd year Landscape and Community project Scott Farlow, the module tutor, has written a manifesto – available here … AD6601ConsiderThisManifesto

Field Trip to Lightmoor, Forest of Dean

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,…

watch this space … LANDSCAPE PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

Check out this FACEBOOK LINK (you’ll need to log in first). A brilliant piece of film making put together by one of our talented students – Matt’s totally frustrated by flat-mates and sports science students who simply don’t…

watch this space … LANDSCAPE SOCIETY

Charlotte Collins, Ben Poulter and Dave Gallaher are on the cusp of making an announcement about the LANDSCAPE SOCIETY. This will be a student society dedicated to an affiliation based on an organized group of like-minded LANDSCAPE students,…

CONTEMPLATION OR HANGOVER SUNDAYS ?

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…

The BIG DIG – ‘get dirty’

Undergrad course leader, Allan Mitchell and students on the UoG Landscape undergrad and postgrad teaching programmes at The St Paul’s Resident’s association – EDIBLE GARDEN OPEN DAY – Saturday 20th September 2014 A chance to join and participate…

Landscape Design Studio – ship shape and Bristol fashion

As part of the Masters level module Landscape Design Studio the students visited Bristol, just 45 mins away on the train from Cheltenham. We visited four different site, of which the students need to choose one on which…

Piet Oudolf landscape & exhibition, Hauser and Wirth, Somerset

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….