LRG welcomes new trustees in 2020

Following our online Annual General Meeting on 18 June 2020, we would like to welcome three new Trustees to our Board of Directors. We are also extremely grateful for the time and contributions our three outgoing Trustees have made to LRG, over a period of several years. Thank you all, Laurence Le Du-Blayo, Markus Leibenath […]

Covid thoughts: During and after the pandemic, our streets need more democracy

This blog series is a space to share thoughts and musings arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, and its impacts on current and future landscapes. This piece is submitted by LRG’s new chair of Trustees, Tim Waterman, a landscape architect and theorist whose research explores the interconnections between food, taste, place, and democratic civil society. He […]

Covid thoughts: Changing soundscapes in the Cairngorms

This blog series is a space to share thoughts and musings arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, and its impacts on current and future landscapes. This piece is submitted by Sarah Hobbs, LRG’s Membership & Communications Manager. The village is empty and the woods are full. Of people, who are noticing they are not the only […]

LRG welcomes new Chair of Trustees

A message of introduction from LRG’s new Chair of Trustees, Dr. Tim Waterman, elected at our last trustee meeting on 18th May. Tim is Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK. I am pleased and honoured to take up the role of Chair of the Board of Trustees of […]

Covid thoughts: Our urban landscapes as critical infrastructure

This blog series is a space to share thoughts and musings arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, and its impacts on current and future landscapes. This piece is submitted by Dhanya Rajagopal, a graduate of the Pratt Institute’s Urban Placemaking programme, and who works for the Design Trust for Public Space in New York. As countries across […]

Covid thoughts: Reopening public green places

This blog series is a space to share thoughts and musings arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, and its impacts on current and future landscapes. This piece is submitted by Ed Wall, who teaches the design of landscapes and cities in London and Milan. He previously worked as an urban designer in New York City before being […]

Final issues of Landscape Research Extra published

Our publication Landscape Research Extra (LRE), edited by Bud Young since its inception in 1988, has published its final two issues this week. Issues 89 and 90, together forming the final issue, are now online to read below. A cup of tea and a comfortable chair are recommended as the perfect accompaniment. LRE has provided […]

Virtual event June 2020: call for submissions

A future of our own making: What does landscape justice look and feel like in the face of rapid environmental change? 18th June 2020 2.30-4pm BST, online via Zoom Call for stories, ideas, case studies We’d like to invite you to participate in LRG’s first global webinar and AGM, exploring rapid environmental change through a […]

Covid thoughts: Inequality and access to green space in England

This blog series is a space to share thoughts and musings arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, and its impacts on current and future landscapes. This piece is submitted by Peter Howard, former editor of our journal Landscape Research and vice-chair of LRG. Landscape has never been more critical to the mental health of the country, […]

Workshop report from the Maghreb

MADINATI magazine reports on the LRG workshop held in Tunis in November 2019. MADINATI is based in Algeria and is a partner in the new Maghreb Landscape Research Network, funded by LRG and co-ordinated by partners in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Read more about MADINATI. The first meeting and workshop of the Network, as reported […]