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UK Landscape Award
- 19 Jul 2010 — 27 Aug 2010
- n/a
- There is still time to put your scheme in the running for the best landscape project in the UK.
  
  The closing date for the first-ever UK Landscape Award is 27 August 2010. The Award was created by the European Landscape Convention and helps to implement the Convention in the UK. All kinds of landscapes are eligible to enter – urban, rural, peri-urban (urban edge), suburban, coastal, agricultural, industrial, designed, natural, cultural and so on.
  
  The winner will become the UK’s entry to the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe (COE), which will be decided by the COE in March 2011. The Award has only been run once before; this is the first time that it has taken place in the UK.
- Contact: UK Landscape Award
Cape Town garden volunteers
- 26 Aug 2010 — 9 Sep 2010
- Cape Town
  South Africa
- A few places are still available for this fabulous holiday combining volunteer work at the city's spectacular Kirstenbosch botanical gardens and greening projects in the townships, with enjoying all that Cape Town has to offer a tourist.
  The holiday, which leaves London on the 26th August and returns on the 10th September, is designed for landscape architects and garden designers to learn about the Cape’s unique flora and how it’s applied in design, and at the same time sample the sights and sounds (not to mention the food and wine) of this unique and very beautiful city.
  We stay in a four-star boutique hotel in the centre of town right in the heart of Cape Town's night life and top eateries. Everything except lunch and dinner is included in the price – which, at £1,850 for shared occupancy, is highly competitive. (Vuvuzelas an optional extra).
- Contact: Cape Town garden volunteers
Design Skills Symposium
- 31 Aug 2010 — 1 Sep 2010
- West Park
  Dundee
- This two-day event is a collaboration between Architecture and Design Scotland, Scottish Centre for Regeneration, Improvement Service and Architecture and Place Division. It is aimed at everyone involved in the shaping and delivery of places in Scotland.
- Contact: Architecture and Design Scotland
Wind Farms and the historic environment
- 6 September 2010
- Newcastle University main campus
- This one-day conference is organised by Northumberland County Council and hosted by Newcastle University. It will explore the extent to which the objectives of renewable energy policy and the sensitivity of the historic environment can be accommodated within the planning process without compromising either interest.
  
  The key topics will be:
  - assessment, avoidance and mitigation of impacts to the historic environment
  - the setting of historic assets
  - policy background
  - non-statutory policy and guidance (England and Scotland)
  - landscape assessment and capacity studies
  - the planning balance
  - case studies
  - EIA and inquiry evidence
- Contact: Northumberland County Council
ASLA 2010 Award
- 11 Sep 2010 — 14 Sep 2010
- ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO, Washington, US
- Award categories include: General Design; Residential Design; Analysis and Planning; Research; Communications; The Landmark Award; Student Community Service Award and Student Collaboration.
  
  Entry forms and payment must be received by Friday, February 12, 2010, and submission binders are due by Friday, February 26. Student entry forms and payment must be received by Friday, May 14, 2010, and submission binders are due by Friday, May 28.
  
  Award recipients, their clients, and advisors will be honored at the awards presentation ceremony during the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Washington DC, September 10-13, 2010. The award winning projects will be featured in a video presentation at the ceremony and on the awards website following the event. Professional award recipients receive featured coverage in Landscape Architecture and Garden Design magazine and in many other design, construction industry and general-interest media. The official entrant for projects receiving a student award will receive a complimentary full registration to the 2010 annual meeting, and the official entrant for each project receiving an Award of Excellence (up to seven) will also receive travel and hotel accommodations for the meeting.
- Contact: ASLA
ialeUK 2010 Conference
- 13 Sep 2010 — 16 Sep 2010
- Brighton & Hove
- The 17th Annual UK Meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology will bring together scientists from the many fields in landscape ecology (marine, freshwater and on land) with policy makers, planners and practitioners interested in developing future landscapes that function for both biodiversity and people.
  
  The meeting takes place in Brighton & Hove, at the foot of the South Downs, where a new National Park will be established in 2010 as part of the wider south-east ecological network. There will be two days of presentations on science, policy and practice, networking events and workshops, followed by field trips to landscape-scale projects.
  
  Please submit abstracts (300 words) for posters and presentations to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by Friday 26 February 2010.
  
  The conference publishes proceedings (in book format) to which speakers and poster authors are requested to contribute an eight-page summary by May 2010. Early submissions and suggestions for themes, events, field excursions and workshops are welcome.
- Contact: iale
World Green Roofs Congress 2010: Green roofs for a changing climate
- 15 Sep 2010 — 16 Sep 2010
- Allen & Overy
  One Bishops Square
  London
- This two-day programme will bring together leading green-roof experts from 15 countries, presenting more than 50 papers on performance, benefits and policy. The event will demonstrate how green roofs and walls can contribute to sustainability, climate change adaptation, green infrastructure and ecosystem services.
- Contact: World Green Roofs Congress
Sixth European Landscape Biennial
- 30 Sep 2010 — 2 Oct 2010
- Plaça Nova 5, 3º.
  08002 Barcelona – Spain
- Under the slogan “liquid landscapes”, this three-day conference will focus on landscape interventions, as much from the perspective of landscape architecture as from other disciplines that are linked to its study and evolution. Speakers will include James Corner from Field Operations and Dirk Sijmons from H+N+S Landschapsarchitecten.
- Contact: European Landscape Biennial
International Conference of Urban Biodiversity
- 2 Oct 2010 — 1 Nov 2010
- Nagoya, Japan.
- Organised by:
  The Japan Association for Landscape Ecology
  The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture
  The Japanese Society of Revegetation Technology
  The Organization for Landscape and Urban Greenery Technology Development
  The Institution of Professional Engineers, Japan
  The Natural Environment Coexistence Technology Association
- Contact: URBIO2010
SGD Autumn Conference
- 9 October 2010
- Imperial College
  London
- This one-day conference, organised by the Society of Garden Designers, is entitled ‘From concept to canopy: trees is time, space and place’. The speakers will include Tony Kirkham, Head of Arboretum at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Elizabeth Banks, landscape architect and RHS Council member; and Rick Darke, American environmentalist, plantsman, photographer and author.
  Chair for the day is Mike Calnan, Head of Parks and Gardens at the National Trust.
- Contact: Society of Garden Designers
UK Landscape Conference
- 8 Nov 2010 — 10 Nov 2010
- Liverpool
- This three-day event will be the first ever conference on the European Landscape Convention to be held in the UK and could not have come at a more relevant time.
  
  The Conference will showcase and celebrate recent landscape thinking, building on the Convention’s call to protect, manage and enhance landscapes everywhere – in town, country or coast – and help you in your work to influence change between people and place.
  
  The event, jointly hosted by Defra, the Welsh Assembly Government, the Scottish Government and the Department of the Environment Northern Ireland, and supported by Natural England, English Heritage, Scottish Natural Heritage, and Historic Scotland, will be of interest to those with responsibility or interest in the protection, management and enhancement of all landscapes. Contributors to the programme will include landscape practitioners and academics from the UK and beyond and it will be heavily case study-led.
- Contact: UK Landscape Conference
LI Awards Ceremony
- 18 November 2010
- The Brewery, 52 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD
- The Landscape Institute Awards Ceremony 2010 will be hosted by the poet, journalist and broadcaster Ian McMillan. Ian is the poet-in-residence for the Academy of Urbanism as well as the host of The Verb on BBC Radio Three and we are delighted that he has agreed to present our Awards.
- Contact: LI Awards 2010

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