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Tickets are on sale now for the GLDA’s 29th Annual Design Seminar entitled:
Building Resilient Landscapes for a Changing Climate
This year the Seminar will explore the crucial role that our gardens and open spaces play in creating a sustainable and liveable future for our communities. As urbanisation intensifies, there are proposals to reduce garden sizes in newly built housing. Our outdoor spaces have the immense potential to have a positive effect on our lives, support biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change.
Date: Saturday, 22nd February 2025
Venue: Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel Conference Centre (click for map)
Northwood Park, Santry, Dublin D09 X9X2
Time: Registration opens 8am. Seminar 9am-5.30pm.
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Henrik Sjöman Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Scientific Curator at Gothenburg Botanical Garden and Honoree Research Associate at Royal Botanic Garden Kew. His work is mainly focusing on developing knowledge of site adapted plant use for urban environments including private gardens as well as public parks. How the capacity of different trees will vary in context to its environment and in delivering important ecosystem services has become the prime driver in Henrik’s work and as such how to extend the knowledge of diversifying our treescapes in parks and gardens.
Charlotte Hitchmough, has spent her career working in ‘watery’ things, beginning in the water industry, moving to the research councils and then to the Rivers Trust movement. She is Director of Action for the River Kennet and for eight years served on the board of the Rivers Trust. Throughout this time, she has developed and managed award winning projects to protect and improve rivers and their catchments. She is particularly interested in nature based solutions, and how communities and individuals can reduce their impact on every part of the water environment from water scarcity to pollution and flood risk.
Ann Marie Powell, Ann-Marie Powell’s multi-award-winning garden design practice has seen outdoor spaces as places with exciting possibilities for over twenty years. Based in the U.K., her studio can’t get enough of plants, bold colours and textural contrasts, creating garden habitats that invite a resilient, evolving ecology instead of the traditionally decorated garden. Sustainability is a fundamental value of our approach; she and her team strive to design naturally energetic and bold landscapes to become havens for an abundance of insects and wildlife where our clients live in harmony, up close and personal with the natural world.
The best rates tend to be available by directly with the hotel. Call the hotel (01 862 8888) to ask for GLDA seminar rate, but compare the cost by checking the hotel’s online booking system too as rates may vary.
BYOB … Bring Your Own Bag!
Be sure to bring your own bag (no, it doesn’t really have to be a GLDA one) with you to seminar so you can take home a selection of suppliers’ brochures which will be available on the day.