Gardens – an Environmental Lifeline?
16 March 2005
In this illustrated talk, Dan Pearson will show how two of his clients in
Japan have used gardens to improve the environment and the well-being of the
people using the spaces.
One project uses 14 roof gardens to address the severity of a new-built
urban environment. Fusing the tradition of British gardens and landscapes with a strict palette of Japanese plants, the gardens link as an elevated landscape to bring a calming influence to this new development. A ribbon that takes the form of a rill, a hedge or a dry stone wall connects all the gardens and new technology has been used to sustain these gardens in the most unlikely of places.
The second project is for an ecological park sustainable for a thousand
years. Although still at concept stage there are big ideas to entice people
from the comfort of the familiar to the ruggedness of a forest where one has to wear bells to ward off the bears!
Event time: 16 March 2005 18.30 – 20.00
Speaker: Dan Pearson
Location: Conference Centre, St Pancras, London
Price: £6.00 (concessions £4.00)
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