Women Crossing Boundaries: A Woman’s Journey in Landscape Architecture

Building on FOLAR’s popular series of Women in Landscape, this new collection of talks brings together insights into the motivations and work of three leading contemporary landscape designers and their teams, alongside stories celebrating the lives and achievements of earlier pioneers.

Each of these women has pushed boundaries to improve the lives of others. Some have studied and worked in the UK before adapting their knowledge and ideas to suit the unique contexts of their home countries - an exciting process of creative cross-pollination.

Every generation needs its pioneers, those who make lasting, and at times radical, changes, and who also inspire others to think boldly and act with confidence. Throughout the history of landscape design, there have always been people whose ideas and work transform the way we understand and shape our environments.

As with FOLAR’s previous series, these talks aim to showcase some of the most inspiring people, projects, and ideas in the field — past and present.

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This ticket is for this individual talk and costs £8, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire series of 6 talks at £42 via the link here.(Gardens Trust members £6 each or all 6 for £31.50.) There will be an opportunity for Q & A after the session.

Ticket holders can join each session live and/or view a recording for up to 2 weeks afterwards.

Ticket sales close 4 hours before the talk.

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk (If you do not receive this link, please contact us). A link to the recorded session will be sent shortly after each session and will be available for 2 weeks.

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Talk 1. 14th January: Sisters in the Landscape - Miranda and Octavia Hill with Gillian Darley. First in a series of 6 online lectures, £8 each or all 6 for £42 (Gardens Trust and FOLAR members £6 each or all 6 for £31.50)

Talk 2. 21st January: Deep Ecology with Johanna Gibbons. Second in a series of 6 online lectures, £8 each or all 6 for £42 (Gardens Trust and FOLAR members £6 each or all 6 for £31.50)

Talk 3. 28th January: Shaping Public Landscape with Saira Ali. Third in a series of 6 online lectures, £8 each or all 6 for £42 (Gardens Trust and FOLAR members £6 each or all 6 for £31.50)

Talk 4. 4th February: In Search of a New Occupation c.1900–1930 with Catharina Nolin. Fourth in a series of 6 online lectures, £8 each or all 6 for £42 (Gardens Trust and FOLAR members £6 each or all 6 for £31.50)

Talk 5. 11th February: Building the Swedish Welfare landscapes c. 1930–1960 with Catharina Nolin. Fifth in a series of 6 online lectures, £8 each or all 6 for £42 (Gardens Trust and FOLAR members £6 each or all 6 for £31.50)

Talk 6. 18th February: Learning from Sheffield, Growing in Latin America: A Woman’s Journey in Landscape Architecture with Martha Fajardo. Last in a series of 6 online lectures, £8 each or all 6 for £42 (Gardens Trust and FOLAR members £6 each or all 6 for £31.50)

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Talk 6. 18th February: Learning from Sheffield, Growing in Latin America: A Woman’s Journey in Landscape Architecture with Martha Fajardo

Martha will share a reflective talk about how her time at the University of Sheffield shaped not only her professional life, but also her vision of cities and landscapes as spaces for people and nature. For more than 35 years, her office has carried forward the lessons learned there, transforming them into projects in Colombia and across Latin America. She will also bring a more personal reflection on the role of women in landscape architecture — a perspective that, she believes, brings an essential sensitivity to our field. From a woman’s gaze, landscape design becomes a way of detecting structural inequalities and deficiencies in our public (and private) spaces, and of laying the foundations for integral transformation. It places nature and people at the very centre. It nurtures everyday life. It reimagines mobility with attention to the rhythms and needs of children, women, the elderly, and the disabled. And it invites co-creation as a cornerstone of urban regeneration.

Martha Fajardo is a Colombian architect and landscape architect with a master's degree and an honorary doctor of letters (DLitt) from the University of Sheffield UK. CEO of Grupo Verde, a firm dedicated to the professional practice of landscape architecture, urbanism, and urban design. She cofounded and was the first President of the Colombian Society of Landscape Architects (SAP). Former President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). She cofounded and chaired the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI). Martha is a Board of Directors member of The Nature of Cities (TNOC).

Image: Martha Fajardo ©Martha Fajardo

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