Conference
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
COP 26 in Glasgow has been described as a watershed moment human history. Jane Findlay, President of the Landscape Institute and Leeds Beckett alumnus, will discuss her recent experiences at COP26 and its relevance for designers of the built environment, as a practicing landscape architect and founding director of FIRA Landscape Architecture and Urban Design she will also talk about her passion to design for sustainability and wellbeing.
About the lecture:
Jane Findlay is a Landscape Architect, President of the Landscape Institute and the founding director of Fira.
She is a masterplanner and designer with over 36 years’ experience of designing and delivering large and complex projects. Jane is particularly experienced in the design of the healing landscape for some of the largest and most complex healthcare projects in the UK.
Jane is passionate about promoting the psychological and physical benefits that quality landscape design and nature play in all aspects of the public realm. She is a pioneering exponent of ‘place-making’ and the importance of health and wellbeing in the way that people experience our urban environment and the spaces we create within, around, and connecting places.
Her interest in multifunctional green infrastructure is reflected in her design work. Whether it is creating new settlements, transportation systems, headquarters and offices or campus design, her philosophy is to lead with the green. Jane is also a sustainability advisor on the University of Warwick Estate & Environment Committee.
As a masterplanner and volunteer, Jane continues to advise the National Memorial Arboretum, in South Staffordshire, on their relatively young arboretum. She is also the custodian of Kiln Wood an ancient woodland in Gloucestershire where she has introduced a management plan to restore the hazel coppice.
