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Maria Medlycott from Place Services of the Essex County Council Final speaker of our Landscape Talks series at Writtle University College was Maria Medlycott, the senior historic landscape consultant at Place Services in Chelmsford. In her fascinating talk, Maria talked about the historic landscape analysis process and its usage in the landscape planning and evaluation. As an experienced archaeologist, Maria showed students and staff some of her projects including Hatfield Forest and Coastal Grazing Marsh Project where the detailed historic analysis throughout the centuries revealed insights into the cultural, social, ecological and economical factors that made up the contemporary landscapes we see, appreciate and engage in Essex. #wucdesign #historicessexlandscapes #landscapearchitecture #chooselandscape

Michael Ekers with his award at the Landscape Institute Awards Ceremony in London   Michael Ekers of  Writtle University College   has won the   # LIAward   for   # Student   # Portfolio ! Michael who is studying MA Landscape Architecture at WUC presented his three years of undergraduate landscape architecture course work to the jury.  Judges said: 'INDULGE ME demonstrates a great degree of  # creativity , both in the topics developed and in the way of  # communicating   # ideas .' Congratulations Michael! #wuclandscape #chooselandscape #studentbestportfolio

Ilbin Yoon from Writtle University Design with gardens for visually impaired Ilbin's prototypes fro design applications Writtle University College,  MA Landscape Architecture student Ilbin Yoon received the highly commanded award for his MA Dissertation in the best student dissertation category at the Landscape Institute Awards 2018. AN  #INCLUSIVE   #URBAN   #PARK  FOR ALL PEOPLE by Ilbin Yoon, Writtle University College. Research is investigating the challenges faced by  #visuallyimpaired   people when navigating  #landscape #design  and building a case for multi- #sensory   #landscapes .⠀ The Jury said: "A well -structured and clearly set out dissertation, focusing on an important topic that can easily be ignored: the consideration of the needs of people with visual impairment within the landscape design process." #wuclandscape #chooselandscape #landscapestudentawards

Oliver Lee, Director at The Landscape Partnership talked to students and staff about wide range of projects. This week we hosted Oliver Lee, the Director at the Landscape Partnership, Suffolk and London at Writtle University College. Oliver showed examples from a wide range of projects he managed over the years. The larger scale projects such as Cambridge Green Infrastructure Strategy and Green Belt Landscape Capacity Studies were great examples to see the impacts of the landscape in the strategical decision making in relation to landscape planning.Urban design projects such as Fordham Park in London and Linear Park on Deptford showed us the importance of public needs and designer's response to the behavioral patterns in the urban areas. Students gained a new insight into the role of landscape architects' role through the wide range of projects. #wuclandscape #chooselandscape #landscapearchitecture

Giles Heap, Director of the Ced Stone gave a fascinating talk to WUC students and staff. Landscape Talks series at Writtle University College continued with Giles Heap, the Director of the landscape company Ced Stone.  In his talk, Giles explained the natural hard landscape materials and their specifications with different examples. Ced Stone is involved with fascinating landscape architecture projects such as Natural History Museum and students and staff had the opportunity to gain insight into these projects from the perspective of materials and paving. Giles emphasized the the importance of the right material for the right purpose as well as their aesthetic value and impact onto the landscape. #landscapearchitecture #naturalstone #chooselandscape #wuclandscape