Guest speakers

• Samuel Cortis - winner of the Mark Turnbull Travel Award
• Dr Amber Roberts - Winner of the Mark Turnbull Travel Award
• René Sommer Lindsay - Senior Urban Designer and Climate Resilience consultant

Schedule:

18:00 - Welcome & LIS AGM

18:15 - Samuel Cortis: Making Room for Social Spaces

18:30 - Dr Amber Roberts: Food and Flood Resilience: Climate Change Innovations - Learning from Europe

18:45 - René Sommer Lindsay: Placemaking Infrastructure for Resilient, Sustainable, Liveable Cities and Communities

19:00 - Q&A

19:15 - Landscape Institute Update from Jane Findlay FLI

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Mark Turnbull was one of the country’s most eminent Landscape Architects, winner of the Landscape Institute’s Gold Medal Award and recognised for the contribution that overseas learning and experience from his training and work in the USA brought to his practice in Scotland. The Award focuses on using overseas travel to gain insight into best and innovative landscape practice to address some of the current landscape challenges facing Scotland. The award will benefit future generations of graduate landscape architects in Scotland as well as practice of Landscape Architecture by bringing overseas experience and knowledge back to the country.

The Landscape Institute Scotland would like to thank Sharon Turnbull for her generous support of this Travel Award in the memory of Mark Turnbull.

Dr Amber Roberts reflects on her research into the responses to climate change across Europe - how can landscape design help us adapt to changing conditions?

Samuel Cortis talks about community led urban transformations in Europe - what impact can local projects have on both immediate and wider City planning?

About the Speakers

Samuel Cortis completed his Masters in Landscape Architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2018. During this time he undertook internships at Edinburgh based practice HERE + NOW, and it was this that led him to recognise the importance of engaging with communities and developing designs by observing how the space is used. Samuel became part of the design team at LUC in Glasgow where he has worked on a range of projects including harbour and waterside regeneration, green infrastructure and active connections implementations, housing masterplans and public realm designs. Supporting communities to strengthen their sense of ownership over space continues to be at the heart of Samuel’s passion for design.

Amber Roberts is a landscape architect and holds a doctorate from Manchester Metropolitan University and has worked at a range of practices across the UK from Grant Associates to Atkins. She is keenly interested in embedding research into design practice. Her work covers both historic and present day issues in Scottish landscape design and has won a number of awards for her research on Scottish Modernist landscape architects from Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), Potager du Roi (École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage) and the Museum of English Rural Life (University of Reading). Amber is a previous winner of the MTTA presenting her findings on Designing for an Ageing Population the LIS AGM in 2019

René Sommer Lindsay – Senior Urban Designer and Climate Resilience consultant René is an urban designer and climate resilience consultant with more than 10 years of experience in co-design, placemaking and climate resilience. He is the former director of the Copenhagen Climate Resilient Neighbourhood project – klimakvarter.dk – and has delivered major urban infrastructure projects with a unique knowledge of Copenhagen’s award winning approach to climate adaption. René advocates for “Placemaking Infrastructure” as a strategy to create resilient, sustainable and liveable cities and communities