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Climate and nature - positive design

24 April 2024 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM / East Midlands / West Midlands /
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Date
24 April 2024 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Organiser
RTPI West Midlands | [email protected]

Join us for the 2nd webinar in our 3 part series of webinars exploring Design in the Built Environment. Brought to you by RTPI East Midlands and RTPI West Midlands, in partnership with Design: Midlands.

This session will look at design solutions for climate emergency and how landscape, ecology and drainage should underpin design - making a genuine positive contribution towards nature recovery and to help address the climate emergency in the process.

Learning outcomes

What is good design? Achieving good design through:

  • Design solutions for climate emergency
  • How landscape, ecology and drainage should underpin design
  • Making a genuine positive contribution towards nature recovery

Core CPD Framework

  • Climate emergency, design and placemaking

Speakers 

  • Professor Alex Wright - Professor of Architecture - Bath University 
  • Alison Caldwell - Technical Director - PJA
  • Catherine Philips - Associate Director - PJA 

Agenda

  • 12.00 - 12.10 - Welcome, introduction, housekeeping and subject overview
  • 12.10 - 12.25 - Speaker  Professor Alex Wright - Design solutions for a climate emergency.
  • 12.25 - 12.40 -  Speaker Alison Caldwell and Catherine Philips - Focus on landscape, ecology and drainage making a genuine positive contribution towards nature recovery and to help address the climate emergency.
  • 12.40 - 1.00 - Q&A and round up

This is the 2nd of a 3 part series of design webinars. Session 3 will take place on or around Thursday 27 June.