BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:302@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T130000 DTSTAMP:20191002T161014Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/james-hitchmough-why- vegetation-is-important-in-landscape-architecture/ SUMMARY:James Hitchmough: Why Vegetation Is Important in Landscape Architec ture DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nOrganized by ASLA-CCNY\n\nIntroduced by Catherine Se avitt Nordenson\n\nDiscussion to follow.\n\nJames Hitchmough\, PhD\, has w orked in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of She ffield since 1995 and as a Professor of Horticultural Ecology since 2004. He was the Head of Department from 2014 to 2018. Sheffield\, with over 400 students and 35-40 PhD students\, is the largest landscape architecture d epartment in the UK and one of the international leaders in landscape arch itecture research\, with funded research collaborations across the world.\ n\nJames's research has centered around developing novel approaches to pub lic planting design that allow for the creation of rich experiences for ur ban people and habitat opportunities for native biodiversity. At the same time\, he established and managed at the lowest levels of finance\, energy \, and other diminishing resources.  To achieve this goal he has integrat ed perspectives from contemporary ecological science with design and manag ement processes\, and developed understanding through environmental psycho logy research as to what people might think of the resulting designed land scapes. The application of these multi-disciplinary perspectives is intend ed to shift existing paradigms as to what urban planting might be in the 2 1st century\, in a time of climate change\, sustainability\, and biodivers ity. At the core of this is the need to create experiences with vegetation that are extraordinary\, uplifting\, and meaningful.  A vital source of inspiration for how to design opportunity for these experiences has been t o travel extensively to study the world’s most visually extraordinary te mperate and Mediterranean vegetation.\n\nHe is also a practitioner\, and h as been involved in many of the major designed landscapes in the UK over t he past twenty years. He was\, for example\, the planting design lead (wit h Nigel Dunnett) at the London Olympic Park\, 2008-2013. Since 2010 James has worked extensively in China\, where he has sought to develop more sust ainable urban landscapes\, in part through encouraging greater use of Chin ese native and other “more sustainable” vegetation\, but also through challenging design approaches that do not reflect on the culture and ecolo gy of the places in question. In 2018 he designed one of the five “maste r” gardens\, at the Beijing International Expo\, plus the first multi-sp ecies native woodland parks in China at Lotus Lake in Central Beijing. He also works at much larger scales\, leading the LDA Design and Grimshaw Arc hitecture team\, which in 2019 won the $2 million first prize in the Inter national Design Competition to re-imagine Longquan Shan\, a 1\,275 square km mountain range that is being subsumed by the city of Chengdu\, as a con ceptually new model for a national park.\n\nCurrently\, he is working with Hassell Architecture on imagining the planting for the Melbourne Arts Pre cinct Project. This is a $1 billion Australian regeneration project that c onnects 14 of the city’s premier arts and cultural institutions with a n ew public realm driven by rich\, exciting planting\, to parallel outside\, the performance that takes place inside. CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Special Events LOCATION:Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, 141 Convent Aven ue\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bernard and Ann e Spitzer School of Architecture:geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR