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The next speaker in our ‘Thinkers and Doers’ online lecture series is Dr Anastasia Nikologianni (CATiD Birmingham City University, Landscape Institute and International Federation of Landscape Architects) with “Climate crisis: landscape-led models for a carbon neutral future”.

Abstract: The webinar touches upon the climate challenges we face and the impact these have to the value of the landscape, our communities and economies. Using real life projects, it discusses on innovative models that have demonstrated the significance of policy, transformation and the landscape in strategic design within multidisciplinary teams and collaboration processes.

Bio: Dr Anastasia Nikologianni holds a European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Climate-KIC labelled PhD in Landscape Architecture and Climate Emergency with regards to the role of low carbon, spatial quality and the contribution design can make to the development of regional landscape-based spatial strategies. Anastasia is also qualified as a Landscape Architect MA and Agriculturist/Horticulturist M.Sc. Most of her recent research has focused on climate emergency issues, the extent to which spatial quality and low carbon can be delivered in regional landscape design as well as the way visual representations contribute to the design process.

Anastasia is a research fellow and consultant in Birmingham City University and joins the CATiD BCU team, an international, multidisciplinary research, design and consultancy hub. CATiD’s design-led and conceptual approach aims to place quality of life and sustainability-oriented transformation at the top of the political agenda. She is also the Chair of the Emerging Professionals Advocate of IFLA World aiming to support landscape architects and designers. Acknowledging that policy plays a significant role in the way large-scale design is implemented, Anastasia is a member of both the Policy and Communications committee and the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Response Panel for the Landscape Institute (UK) and has an active role in various initiatives such as the recent ‘Climate Change Guide for Local Authorities’ in the UK. Holding committee positions at professional organisations have allowed her to work in areas related to climate change and the landscape, fulfilling her passion for the creation of a global network promoting the landscape profession.

 ‘Thinkers and Doers’ aims at bringing together practitioners, scholars, students and the wider community of landscape architecture and affiliated built environment disciplines to share ideas and to hear the latest innovations in the field. This online series brings together nationally and internationally renowned experts through an initiative between the Tuia Pito Ora – New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) Wellington Branch and the Landscape Architecture Programme at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). Lectures will be 30 minutes long followed up by 10 minutes of Q&A. This series happens fortnightly at 8am (NZ time) to allow speakers and guest from across the globe.