FOLAR
Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading

Past Talks

Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading

Past Talks

Almost from the outset FOLAR has - with generous permission from our speakers - recorded virtually all the talks we have held at symposia and online.There are currently over 130 recordings available under Past Talks and Specials. The Past Talks section covers topics ranging from the Festival Pleasure Gardens at Battersea Park, Susan Jellicoe’s photographs, The Open Spaces Society, working on Byker in Newcastle with Ralph Erskine to landscape designs that promote human health and well-being.

There are a number of talks that focus on women landscape designers, from Fanny Wilkinson, Marjory Lady Allen of Hurtwood, Brenda Colvin, and Sylvia Crowe in Bristol, to Elisabeth Beazley, Diana Armstrong Bell and other contemporary landscape architects in the can…

Our speakers include past presidents of the Landscape Institute - Brian Clouston, Hal Moggridge, Tim Gale; landscape academics - Ed Bennis, Jan Woudstra, Alan Powers, Luca Csepely-Knorr, Catharine Ward Thompson; historians - Elain Harwood, John Boughton, Katrina Navikas; practitioners – Annie Coombs; Neil Chapman, Jennette Emery-Wallis, Paul Rabbitts, Ian Baggott,  young researchers – Joy Burgess, Sally Watson, Karen Fitzsimon and many more.

The Specials section includestalks celebrating the life and works of two of the Institute’s significant practitioners – Bran Clouston and Hal Moggridge;  and a series of twenty one talks on the C20 designed landscapes that were added to the Historic England register in 2021.

So how can anybody find anything in all these recordings?  The quickest way is to use the search box – type in a strong and simple key word linked with what you are searching for, eg play, Jellicoe, Sweden, and hopefully you will find something that is useful for you.

 

Landscape of UK post-war State Financed Industry - FOLAR Symposium

This FOLAR symposium deals with the landscape design, planning and management of state financed industry, looking at post-war and current projects. State owned industries have had an enormous impact on the UK's landscape and on UK infrastructure, however, the influence of these businesses and their associated landscape architects and landscape managers has often gone unnoticed and uncelebrated. We discover the scale of some of the projects and recognise that there is much to laud and many lessons to learn. Chaired by LI President Elect Jane Findlay, the speakers bring a wealth of knowledge on an extraordinary range of British infrastructure. 

Dr Alan Powers on the Landscapes of Post-War Nationalised industries and the work of landscape architects, Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr on Electric landscapes and the CEGB, Richard Flenley on the Landscape of Coal, Hal Moggridge on reservoirs, Helen Neve on the construction of the National Gas network, Christoph Brintup on HS2, and Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr & Dr Richard Brook on their Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Culture, Amenity, Heritage and Industry project.

Videos

  1. Introduction by Jane Findlay

  2. Paradise Mislaid by Dr Alan Powers

  3. ‘Electric Landscapes’ the Central Electricity Generating Board CEGB by Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr

  4. Landscape of coal: deep mining and the Opencast Executive by Richard Flenley

  5. Reservoirs in England and Wales by Hal Moggridge

  6. Landscape and environmental planning for the Natural Gas network1967-1986 by Helen Neve

    (Permission was not given to include the talks by Christoph Brintup on HS2 or Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr and Dr Richard Brooks joint talk on Landscapes of post-war infrastructure)

Speakers: Dr Alan Powers, Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr, Richard Flenley, Hal Moggridge, Helen Neve, Christoph Brintup [no recording of this presentation], Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr & Dr Richard Brook; Chair Jane Findlay
March 7, 2020 The MERL

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