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Healthcare facilities: Health and wellbeing through landscape-led design

Continue your learning with guest editor, Jane Findlay PPLI, and other authors at this two-part masterclass exploring landscape-led approaches to designing, planning and managing healthcare facilities.

Catch up on LI Campus with this masterclass to examine historical and evidence-based methods for delivering healthcare facilities and green spaces, within the UK and internationally, to foster more sustainable communities and deliver positive outcomes for health, wellbeing and biodiversity. Key topics include the history of healing landscapes; collaboration for integrated solutions; improving the patient journey; emerging technologies; funding and skills.

Visit campus.landscapeinstitute.org to catch up on the masterclass, which is open to both LI members and non-members.

Presenters

Jane Findlay is a landscape architect, Immediate Past President of the Landscape Institute, and the founding director of Fira. Jane is particularly experienced in designing healing landscapes in the healthcare sector, having worked on all scales of healthcare facilities and some of the largest healthcare projects in the UK.

Jeremy Parker is a Director of Fira with over 30 years of landscape design experience. He has developed a particular interest in healthcare environments, especially related to oncology, mental health and end-of-life facilities.

Romy Rawlings is Director at Deep Green and has been a landscape architect for over 30 years. She is the author of Healing Gardens and will share her learnings on the healing powers of plants at physical, visual and molecular levels, along with recent findings in studies such as psychoneuroimmunology.

Liz Rees is Greenspace for Health Programme Director at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and is a committed climate campaigner and advocate for systems thinking. Liz is passionate about creating access to green space for marginalised communities, active travel, and sustainable food systems.

Bob Wills co-leads, the Medical Architecture London Studio. He has over 25 years experience in healthcare design in the UK and around the world, and has played a key role in the delivery of various large-scale mental health and acute health projects. His interest lies in the use of research and development methodologies to improve the quality of the built environment.

Luke Engleback CMLI FRSA sits on the Landscape Institute Policy & Communications Committee and various design review panels. Studio Engleback is a founding signatory of UK Landscape Architects Declare.