The webinar touches upon the climate challenges we face and the impact these have to the value of the landscape, our communities and economies. Using real life projects, it discusses on innovative models that have demonstrated the significance of policy, transformation and the landscape in strategic design within multidisciplinary teams and collaboration processes.

Bio: Dr Anastasia Nikologianni holds a European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Climate-KIC labelled PhD in Landscape Architecture and Climate Emergency with regards to the role of low carbon, spatial quality and the contribution design can make to the development of regional landscape-based spatial strategies. Anastasia is also qualified as a Landscape Architect MA and Agriculturist/Horticulturist M.Sc. Most of her recent research has focused on climate emergency issues, the extent to which spatial quality and low carbon can be delivered in regional landscape design as well as the way visual representations contribute to the design process. 

Anastasia is a research fellow and consultant in Birmingham City University and joins the CATiD BCU team, an international, multidisciplinary research, design and consultancy hub. CATiD’s design-led and conceptual approach aims to place quality of life and sustainability-oriented transformation at the top of the political agenda.

She is also the Chair of the Emerging Professionals Advocate of IFLA World aiming to support landscape architects and designers. Acknowledging that policy plays a significant role in the way large-scale design is implemented, Anastasia is a member of both the Policy and Communications committee and the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Response Panel for the Landscape Institute (UK) and has an active role in various initiatives such as the recent ‘Climate Change Guide for Local Authorities’ in the UK. Holding committee positions at professional organisations have allowed her to work in areas related to climate change and the landscape, fulfilling her passion for the creation of a global network promoting the landscape profession.

10 June 2020 at 8am (NZST) [equivalent to 09 June: 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York or 9pm London]

Zoom Registration Link:

https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuc--pqz4uGNwhv3SWCoKqryzJuAEecsvV