The next speaker in the ‘Thinkers and Doers’ series is Emilia Weckman (Finland) presenting “Sustainable landscape construction: an operating model for landscape industries”.
This lecture is scheduled to happen on Wednesday, 11 November 2020, at 8 a.m. NZ time (or 10 November – 11 a.m. Los Angeles, 2 p.m. New York, 7 p.m. London).
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Summary
The goals for sustainable development, particularly ecological sustainability, are of high importance to landscape construction. Construction interferes with natural processes: the water cycle, soil, areas of vegetation, etc., all crucial factors in terms of ecosystem services. The aim for sustainable landscape construction should be to cherish the vitality and continuity of these processes. In addition, social sustainability is emphasised in operating principles that concern human health and wellbeing as well as economic sustainability in the use of raw materials and energy-saving. This lecture explores the operating model associated with environmental construction and by following sustainable development goals. It explores that through different themes: 1) Water conditions, 2) Soil and vegetation, 3) Raw materials and products, 4) Energy-saving, air quality and environmental protection, and 5) Health and wellbeing. Different stages of project implementation will be addressed by logging the operating principles of order, design, construction and maintenance. The lecture also introduces the Sustainable Landscape Construction Model (KESY) presented in 2015 by the Finnish Association of Landscape Industries, which considers what the objectives are for sustainable development in the green sector and how they can be achieved. This operating model has been introduced in practical guidelines to the professional field of landscape industries in Finland since 2018.
Bio
Emilia Weckman is a Landscape Architect and a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Aalto University, Finland. She has practised as a landscape architect for more than 15 years, mostly as an entrepreneur and consultant through her own practice (LOCI Landscape Architects Ltd until 2013, and now WE3 Ltd). Her experience as a designer includes a range of different planning scales, from city-wide commissions to more intimate and detailed construction projects. She is an active part in developing the profession both in Finland and internationally; as past president of MARK, the Finnish Association for Landscape Architects (2015-2017) and member of the board for over 10 years; as an active member of VYL, the Finnish Landscape Industries Association, an umbrella organisation representing the Green Sector Associations; and, as the immediate past Vice President for Education in the European Region of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (2015-2019).
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