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Together, they share an insider perspective on how landscape can shape better places - environmentally, socially, and economically.

In this episode, Alexandra Gomes discusses her research on urban dynamics, focusing on social spatial inequalities, the role of urban design in creating equitable cities, and the importance of leveraging data while maintaining human experiences in placemaking. 

Join Catherine as she chats with Sophie Trotman, Head of Place Branding, Marketing and Communications at Notting Hill Genesis, about how the best places aren't decorated with art... they're born from it. When artists join the conversation from day one, local stories shape every curve of a bench, every thoughtful detail that makes a space sing with authenticity.

Alexandra Steed, Founder & Director of Alexandra Steed Urban, feels that people's broken relationship with nature has got us into the environmental predicament that we find ourselves in. But rather than wait for others to do something about it, Alexandra is calling upon all of us - especially those in the Landscape Architecture industry - to act now.

During her chat with us, she talks about multiple actions - as described in her latest book, Portrait to Landscape: A Landscape Strategy to Reframe our Future, that we can take as professionals and citizens to start making a change.

With a mission to Live In Painted Cities, Lee Bofkin, CEO and co-founder of Global Street Art joins us to discuss the importance of street art and how our urban landscape can benefit from joyful murals representing and bringing together communities.  We discuss the evolution in attitudes towards street art over the last 10 years, how street art brings spaces to life, democratises art and the museum of inspiration in the basement of GSA HQ.  

Our latest installment of #Youviewfromhere features Maria Guiterrez, a landscape architect at Gillespies. As a former product designer, Maria shares her journey as a product designer in Colombia to becoming a landscape architect in the UK. We touch on the different perspectives she brings to projects, she shares insights from both professions and some of her favourite projects.

What happens when you remove cars from one of the busiest roads and intersections in London, and prioritise people and plants?  The new Strand Aldwych. The newly pedestrianised area has already picked up a bouquet of awards and generated lots of coverage. So Cannon Ivers, design lead of The Strand redesign and Director at Landscape Architecture practise LDA Design joins us for a chat about the project. 

We’re back with #YourViewFromHere, our ongoing series sharing the best in landscape architecture. This month, Mariana Marques, a Landscape Architect from Deacon Design, joins us in The Green Room to share her experiences breaking into the profession, valuable learnings - and having worked on countless Care Home projects, we discuss the lack of readily available guidance for landscape architects in this space.

Meet the Humanitarian Landscape Collective, a network of professionals who operate to bridge the gap between humanitarian work and landscape architecture, highlighting the crucial role landscape architecture can play in helping the most vulnerable. The month, we’re joined by their founders Rhys Jones (Landscape Architect at Alexandra Steed URBAN) and Joanna Ferro (Landscape Architect at Arup). They share their experiences setting up and growing this passion project (now with 200+ members), their goals and how they bring like-minded people together in thought leadership and research to drive change.

After a little break, we're back in The Green Room with a new episode of #YourViewFromHere - our ongoing series sharing stories and experiences from the landscape architecture profession. Today we're joined by Clay Baylor, Projects Director at Publica. He shares his journey working within landscape architecture and urban design: the differences in infrastructure between the UK and the US, how both view the profession and the impact of allelopathy and changing plant palettes.