Soft Landscape Workshop 2020

''Thinking Outside the Pot''

How we can work both together and within our own businesses towards a more sustainable, carbon neutral future.

Wednesday 22 January 2020 Ashford International Hotel

Visit www.palmstead.co.uk to book your ticket − 25% off, early bird ticket offer ends Friday 1 Nov

Calculate, reduce and offset…

The 'Thinking Outside the Pot' panel of speakers will present an overview of where we are as an industry, to highlight the key concerns regarding our current practices and how they impact the environment and to present a potential framework for understanding how we can become more sustainable in our work practices and reduce our collective carbon footprint.

The day will comprise of thought-provoking presentations from selected climate and ecological experts, landscape architects, designers and other organisations and businesses who have environmental awareness and sustainable practice at their very core. An extensive array of exhibitors and organisations will be on hand to offer advice throughout the day.

The current panel of speakers comprises:
(subject to change)

Peter Gibbs
(Former BBC Weather Presenter and Currently Radio 4’s
‘Gardeners Question Time’ Chair)
“Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get"

Sophie Leguil
(Freelance Botanical & Horticultural Consultant)
“Ecological Breakdown”

John Weir
(Forestry commission)
“How the forestry sector needs to respond”

Dr Debbie Bartlett
(Principal lecturer at the University of Greenwich)
‘Cooling our urban spaces’

Tony Kirkham
(Kew Gardens)
“My trees for the future”

Henrij Sjöman
(Scientific Curator Senior at Gothenburg Botanical Garden)
“Right plant right place”

Noel Farrer
(Landscape Architect)
“How landscape and housing have to change”

Anna French
(Landscape Architect and Landscapes for the Future)
“Changing my practice to a lower carbon footprint”

Marian Boswall
(Landscape Architect and Garden Designer)
“Designing for the future”