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The upcoming seminar is presented by Meg Back, Kaihoahoa Whenua / Senior Landscape Architect at WSP.

Most landscape architects have enough academic training to respect research. If research tells us our design can have a proven positive effect, then we want to make that happen. But how does that work in reality when faced with the day-to-day practicalities of delivering landscape architectural projects? In this talk, self-confessed un-expert Meg (and if she can convince them, maybe a colleague) look at the research that inspires them, vs the practicalities of applying that in real life projects including examples in health care, tourism and large scale infrastructure projects. 
 
Bio  
With a firm belief Landscape Architecture can create places that are highly functional and visually appealing whilst also addressing social, cultural and ecological elements, Meg’s recent experience in includes landscape design, masterplanning and visual assessment; in educational, tourism, residential, therapeutic, and public realm landscape sectors. With an introduction to scientific rigour during a Bachelor in Agricultural Science (Lincoln University); over the past years, Meg has been involved in evaluating 4th year negotiated study projects and course moderation at Unitec, double blind peer review for XSection Journal, conference organisation (including being part of selection of international speakers) and is currently a member of the editorial board for Landscape Review. She is currently a member of the NZILA climate change working group. While Meg has published work in cultural landscape and recently presented with her colleagues at conference on landscape and tourism, she considers herself to be definitively not an expert. Passions include therapeutic landscape, cultural landscape and food resilience, and these underpin the thinking behind all of Meg’s projects, regardless of the sector.