Multifunction Landscapes: Design to Management
Judges
Catherine Adams
BSc (Hons) MPhil CMLI (Retired)
Catherine has over 36 years’ experience in the profession and has been involved in a diverse breadth of projects from EIAs, Master Plan studies, Park design and refurbishments, health care, university campuses, schools projects, public realm schemes in NI and Scotland and major sports projects. Recently she has been involved in projects in Riyadh and AlUla in the Middle East. She has experience in working in sites with environmental designations, contamination issues, Conservation Area designation and sites listed in the Historic Park, Garden and Demesne Register. Many large schemes are being assessed by BREEAM or CEEQUAL. She was an advocate for sustainable design solutions for landscape and multidisciplinary projects. As Regional Director, she undertook the role of peer reviewer and quality champion within the 70 strong landscape department in AECOM until her retirement in May 2022.
Selected Significant Projects:
National design competition winner for Cleveleys Seafront Regeneration
Newcastle Promenade- Civic Trust Award
National Indoor Sports Arena and Velodrome, Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games
Belfast Cancer Centre, ALCI premier Bog Oak Trophy
Henri Bava
Agence Ter, France
William J. Cairns
Fellow of the Landscape Institute
MCP(MIT) MHort(RHS) DipLD (Dunelm)FLI FRSA PPIPRE ISOCARP
William Cairns was educated at MIT and the Joint Center of Urban Studies at MIT & Harvard University; Durham University and the RBG Edinburgh. He has Masters’ degrees in Urban and Regional Planning, a post graduate diploma Landscape Architecture and Master of Horticulture (applied environmental science); WJC pioneered the introduction of Environmental Impact methodologies in the Assessment of Offshore Oil and Gas projects in the North Sea in the 70s and subsequently has been involved in major development projects including defence establishments, reservoirs, motorways, nuclear power installations, urban redevelopment, and new towns. He is a winner of national and international design awards
Fellow of the Landscape Institute
MCP(MIT) MHort(RHS) DipLD (Dunelm)FLI FRSA PPIPRE ISOCARP
William Cairns was educated at MIT and the Joint Center of Urban Studies at MIT & Harvard University; Durham University and the RBG Edinburgh. He has Masters’ degrees in Urban and Regional Planning, a post graduate diploma Landscape Architecture and Master of Horticulture (applied environmental science); WJC pioneered the introduction of Environmental Impact methodologies in the Assessment of Offshore Oil and Gas projects in the North Sea in the 70s and subsequently has been involved in major development projects including defence establishments, reservoirs, motorways, nuclear power installations, urban redevelopment, and new towns. He is a winner of national and international design awards
Mark Camley
Executive Director of Park, Operations and Venues
London Legacy Development Corporation
Mark joined London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) in January 2012, and led the successful re-opening of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the largest new urban park in the UK for over a hundred years.
He led the design of the South Park and directed the opening and operation of the Park and Venues, including the London Aquatics Centre, the ArcelorMittal Orbit, and the Copper Box Arena. The Park achieved Green Flag a year earlier than planned and has had over 30 million visitors since it opened.
He is a Director of World Urban Parks, London Stadium 185 and Stratford Waterfront Management Company.
Prior to joining LLDC, he was CEO of The Royal Parks for over six years, where he led the parks in gaining Green Flag, developed an investment programme to tackle maintenance backlog of the building stock, and introduced new events like Winter Wonderland.
International projects include leading procurement of re-design of Gorky Park (Moscow), Peer Review of Centennial Parklands (Sydney) and advisor on new urban parks in the middle east.
Marina Cervera
Universidad de Barcelona
Degree both in Landscape Architecture and Architecture. Higher Degree as Masters in Landscape Architecture from ETSAB (UPC). She has been awarded with several scholarships such us Mies van der Rohe Foundation (2001), Caja de Arquitectos Foundation (2002), the CRPP and Le:Notre. In 2014 she got her Master in Urban Planning (UPC). Her professional practice has been developed through Ateliers Jean Nouvel (Paris), the CRPP (UPC) and since 2003 through her own Barcelona-based professional practice involving own projects. Marina Cervera is adjunct professor for ETSAB, DUOT, teaching at MBLandArch. She also teaches in Master’s Program in Landscape Architecture (Fundació UPC) and has lectured around the world in conferences, seminars and International workshops. She is also Executive Director of the Landscape Architecture Office at the COAC, and as a Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Biennial of Landscape Barcelona. In the field of professional activism, she has been Chair of Professional Practice and Policies of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), has been a local contributor to European and local institutions and is a member of several editorial boards of publications related to landscape architecture.
Robert Deane
Rural Focus
Robert Deane is the Managing Director of Rural Focus Ltd, an environmental consultancy based in Devon UK. His work specialises in the management of high value landscapes and the role that farming and land management takes in maintaining them.
Before establishing Rural Focus, he was Head of Landscape Planning and Management for LUC (Land Use Consultants), running their Bristol Office and managing a team of 18 landscape professionals. He has an agricultural background, with experience of the livestock, arable and horticultural sectors, and spent seven years as a Policy Adviser with the National Farmers’ Union.
Through a series of recent projects in England’s National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, he has helped develop national practice on the concept of natural capital. This work is demonstrating how valuing and prioritising environmental and cultural assets helps to deliver multifunctional landscapes that address the needs of society.
Merrick Denton-Thompson OBE
Ex President of Landscape Institute
Merrick Denton-Thompson is a Past President and Fellow of the Landscape Institute. He has worked in the public and voluntary sector on strategic planning and rural land management for most of his career. He was appointed to the Board of Natural England by the Secretary of State to assist in the development of the new government agency in 2006 - 2009. He directed the Rural Pathfinder for the South East of England, was a member of the Cross-Compliance Board for the Single Farm Payment and a member of the Agri-Environment Review Group which set up the Environmental and Countryside Stewardship Schemes.
He is the founding Trustee of the Learning Through Landscapes Trust. He was awarded an OBE for his contribution to education in 2002.
Ursula Forczek-Brataniec
IFLA Europe Exhibition WG Chair
Urszula Forczek – Brataniec. Secretary General IFLA Europe (2016-2020).Graduate of Cracow University of Technology (CUT), Professorr in the Landscape Architecture Chair of the Faculty of Architecture CUT.
Her main area of interest includes theory and practice of landscape architecture. She is the author of the book entitled. View from the road. The landscape in a dynamic perception (2008) and Visible space. Visual analysis in the landscape planning and designing (2018) Apart of scientific work and teaching she is also a designer. She cooperates with eM4 Brataniec Architecture Studio. Their joint projects and implementations have been awarded among others: Polish Nomination for Public Space, Barcelona 2014, 2022; publication in Landscape Architecture Europe 2015; First Prize in Living Architecture Competition, Warszawa 2015; nomination for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2015, 2021.
For many years she has been an active member of associations and scientific committees: Polish Landscape Architecture Association SAK, IFLA Europe, Scientific Committee of Pieniny National Park.
Michael Heurich
UCD School of Landscape Architecture
Sue Morgan
CEO Landscape Institute
Previously, at Design Council, overseeing the expansion and growth of a diverse portfolio of projects and programmes – first as Director of Architecture and the Built Environment, then Executive Director, and finally as Interim CEO. leading and shaping, strategic and operational delivery for Design Council.
A 25-year-plus career in the built environment, urban renewal and placemaking includes the delivery of the National Design Guide, High Streets Task Force, Home of 2030, and work with major infrastructure clients such as Network Rail and Highways England. Prior to joining Design Council, Sue has worked as CEO of Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust, founder of placemaking consultancy Around the Block Ltd. Is a landscape architect by training and further education lecturer. She has held senior positions with London local authorities, Groundwork London, Building Services Research Information Association (BSRIA), and a number of London Urban Study Centres. She is also a director of the Parks Alliance, a Civic Trust Buildings and Landscape Awards Assessor, and has judged a number of prestigious awards, including the Landscape Institute, New London, AJ Architecture, and Pineapples Awards.
Notable consultancy work includes project management for the restoration of the celebrated brutalist Grade2* listed Alexandra and Ainsworth Janet Jack/. Neave Brown Estate in Camden with J and L Gibbons and Erect Architecture. Attracting LI, RTPI and Horticulture Week awards for work in the Wandle Valley and securing over 1.7 million investment for Wandle Valley Regional Park.
Formed a consultancy business called Sue Morgan Consulting in 2002 and went on to form Around the Block Ltd in April 2007 and started her career as one of the last apprentice gardeners for the Greater London Council.
Peter Nickels
Peter Nickels Architects
Peter Nickels MRIAI RIBA is an award-winning architect with over 30 years professional experience in private practice. After graduating from Liverpool University School of Architecture, Peter worked in the UK, Hong Kong, China and Ireland and has amassed a wealth of experience on a wide variety of different project types and scales, including railway infrastructure projects, art galleries, stadia, educational buildings, hotels, conservation projects, large scale housing and individual residential projects.
He was Associate Director at Aedas in Hong Kong and at Gilroy McMahon Architects in Dublin before establishing his own practice, Peter Nickels Architects in 2013, to focus on smaller scale, design oriented projects, with a particular speciality for environmentally conscious design.
He qualified as a Certified Passive House Designer with the Passive House Institute and is passionately committed to creating truly sustainable, healthy, comfortable and beautiful low energy buildings, and in particular the challenge of upgrading and retrofitting existing homes to Passive House standard.
Emily Smyth
Ex Chair LINI
(CMLI FHEA MLA MSc(Planning Studies) BA(hons)Architecture
Emily is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over twenty years' professional experience as practising landscape architect, academic Course Director for landscape architecture, and appointed advisor to government for nature conservation, the built environment, and Peace and Reconciliation funding for Northern Ireland / Ireland. Emily has been Chair and committee member of Landscape Institute Northern Ireland, and a member of Landscape Institute standing committees for policy and education.
Emily's expertise lies in integrated project design and policy development, education and public engagement. She specifically focuses on nature-based solutions, ecosystem and biodiversity resilience, and the interaction between landscape and society, and its heritage, change and value.
Louise Walker
Louise is Senior Research Manager for CIRIA’s sustainable water theme. CIRIA is the Construction Industry Research and Information Association; a UK not-for-profit membership organisation, established in 1960.
We share knowledge and promote good practice through collaborative production of guidance and tools for industry, and by providing training, events, and digital resources.
Louise is an Environmental Scientist and Chartered Water and Environmental Manager with over 15 years’ experience of working with multidisciplinary and international teams within the academic, public, and private sectors to develop practical support for more sustainable water management.
Since completion of her PhD on the use of constructed wetlands, Louise has worked on national and international projects focusing on surface water management, climate change resilience, innovation and decision making. Since working with CIRIA Louise has worked on projects including susdrain (the community for sustainable drainage), guidance on integrated water management, Green Infrastructure for linear assets, Natural Flood Management, blue roofs, SuDS for phosphorus removal and on CIRIA’s benefits estimation tool (Best) – which helps make the business case for blue-green infrastructure.
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