Sheffield, Wednesday 13th May 2015, 1.00-5.30pm.
University of Sheffield, Landscape Department
Venue: Showroom & Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX
How does the design of outdoor places support positive social experiences in culturally diverse neighbourhoods? How can we plan, design and manage exciting and inclusive landscapes in urban areas characterised by migration?
Making the case for socially responsive and engaged practice will be Noel Farrar, Landscape Architect, President of the Landscape Institute, who will share his own experience of designing places for diverse communities. Bhupinder Dev from Bradford City council will discuss the success of City Park in Bradford as both an award-winning public space and playful social resource. Academics from varied disciplines will present emerging findings on how streets and parks are used in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods, opening debate on how research can shape excellent practice in public space design.
Speakers
Critiquing the social dimensions of landscape architecture.
Noel Farrar. President of the Landscape Institute, Farrer Huxley Associates.
Noel is a landscape architect and urban designer who has run his own award winning practice for 19 years and currently serves as President of the Landscape Institute where he campaigns for landscape led place making.
Social innovation for social cohesion in public spaces
Noha Nasser. Kingston University and MELA Social Enterprise.
Noha is an architect, academic, and social entrepreneur with a passion for community-led solutions to public spaces as places to bring people together across social and cultural boundaries.
Everyday encounters and use of parks
Sarah Neal. Reader in Sociology, University of Surrey.
Sarah has led research projects and published in the field of race, ethnicity, multiculture, community, belonging, place and policy-making.
The social role of the public realm in super-diverse areas: fleeting encounters or meaningful interaction?
Susanne Wessendorf. Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham.
Susanne is a social anthropologist and author of “Commonplace Diversity. Social Relations in a Super-Diverse Context” (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Planning & designing places for people - a City of Bradford Council Perspective
Bhupinder Dev and Saira Ali, Bradford City Council.
Bhupinder is a Chartered Town Planner and Development Plans Team Leader at Bradford City Council. Saira is an experienced Landscape Architect, responsible for developing and implementing Environmental Improvement Strategies for the physical regeneration of the main Gateways into the city, creating a lively series of linked spaces and places.
Loitering or lingering? The politics and practice of outdoor sociability
Clare Rishbeth. Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield.
Clare teaches Landscape Architecture and conducts research projects on aspects of migration and landscape experience, current looking at the social life of benches in Woolwich and Sutton, London.
Scope and format
This event will be of interest to:
- Professional landscape architects, planners, urban designers, architects who are engaged in working in urban contexts with ethnically diverse populations, and/or have an interest in developing skills in this area.
- Academics (social geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, landscape architects and planners) whose area of research includes looking at impacts of migration on place, in particular the lived experience of everyday life in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods.
This symposium aims to provide the chance for mutual learning and exchange between academic and professional knowledge and skills. There will be significant time for discussion between delegates and speakers for developing ideals into good working practice. The event is hosted by the Transnational Urban Outdoors research group, headed by Clare Rishbeth.
This is a sponsored event and is free to attend for delegates, light refreshments included, registration essential.
Delegates are warmly welcomed to continue the conversation afterwards at an informal evening meal (at own cost) at the Aagrah, Leopold Square, Sheffield City Centre, S1 2JG.
