Women crossing boundaries in Landscape - FOLAR and The Gardens Trust
Fern Dryopteris felix-mas © Johanna Gibbons RDI
Speaker: Johanna Gibbons
Biodiversity is haemorrhaging while the urban habitat is expanding more rapidly than any other. In this man-made scenario why is there not more proactive focus on making it full of LIFE, when intuitively the multiple benefits of nature are understood? Jo will focus on building for biodiversity through radical ecological concepts and social justice.
Johanna Gibbons RDI is Founding Partner of J&L Gibbons, an award-winning landscape practice established in 1986 and Director of social enterprise Landscape Learn. Jo is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and a Royal Designer for Industry, the highest accolade for a designer, in the UK. Jo has just been inaugurated as the first Landscape Architect (and only the 5th woman in the 90 year history of the Faculty) to have the honour to be elected as Master of the Royal Designers for Industry.
J&L Gibbons have just been announced as this year’s winners of the Excellence in Landscape Design Award for their Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum. Many congratulations to all involved !
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