The next speaker in the ‘Thinkers and Doers’ series is Emily Wade (Sweden) presenting “ Integrated Landscape Character Assessment: a toolkit for long term spatial planning”.
This lecture is scheduled to happen on Wednesday 19 August 2020 at 8am NZ time (or 18 August – 1pm Los Angeles, 4pm New York, 9pm London).
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Abstract
This lecture will look at sustainable transport systems and the considerable impact on the landscape as a result of the building and management of roads and railways. Therefore, a holistic approach to the resources, values and change processes of the landscape has become an increasingly important issue. Understanding the landscape as an arena is an important basis and starting point for both long term strategic planning and in continuing spatial planning. Drawing from the Swedish experience over the last seven years, this lecture will discuss an interdisciplinarity methodology by providing a toolkit to obtain a holistic understanding of the dynamics of the landscape. This methodology is now used in big and costly pending infrastructure projects such as high-speed railways in Sweden. Emily will describe a method for Integrated Landscape Character Assessment that can be used in long term planning.
Bio
Emily Wade is a Landscape Architect practicing in Sweden. She is partner of the office of Landskapslaget in Stockholm, working with landscape architecture, landscape and urban planning. Since 2010, she is the co-author of several guidelines connected to planning of landscapes and public open space. She has an international outlook through engagement in the International Federation of Landscape architects, IFLA. Emily also teaches at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU.
About
‘Thinkers and Doers’ aims at bringing together practitioners, scholars, students and the wider community of landscape architecture and affiliated built environment disciplines to share ideas and to hear the latest innovations in the field. This online series brings together nationally and internationally renowned experts through an initiative between the NZILA Wellington Branch and the Landscape Architecture Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
NZILA members: Event Attendance – NZILA CPD 0.5 pts/hr
NZILA Category 3b Public Lecture: 0.5 pts/hr up to two hours per lecture