The LRG Directors have chosen the word symposia to represent the range of academic, professional, social and institutional programmes that we support. This important work ranges from seminars and policy meetings to walking and working sessions with activists and land managers, as well as a full range of national and international conferences. The work is coordinated by the following members of our board of directors in relationship to partners and colleagues all over the world. Click on each of their names for a bit of detail on the specifics of their role and their activities in service to the organization and our intra-disciplinary passion – which is, of course, the ever expanding concept of landscape.
Events Coordinator: Gareth Roberts
International Activity Coordinator: Professor Peter Howard
Networking and Outreach Coordinator: John Gittins
We have recently confirmed our continued focus upon two important themes: The European Landscape Convention and Landscape and Climate Change. To facilitate the pursuit of those goals, we have agreed a new system of symposia development. We are seeking a few great ideas for conferences and seminars that could be supported by LRG. Symposia support ranges from £200 to £2000 (or more where match funding is involved). Please contact Gareth Roberts our event coordinator for initial discussion and appropriate paperwork. The Board will review proposals in May and November each year.
Examples
2010 LRG made an award to the European Landscape Architecture Student Association (ELASA) to help them convene the 2010 conference in Edinburgh.
2009 LRG convened an international policy seminar: Reassessing Landscape Drivers and the Globalist Environmental Agenda, convened in Alnarp, Sweden in 2009.
LRG was a convening partner on the European conference: Local Implementation of the European Landscape Convention, at Nove Hrady in the Czech Republic
2008 LRG was a convening partner on the expert seminar: Landscape and Sustainable Development, organized with Cemagref in Lille, France.
2007 LRG convened a European seminar on the European Landscape Convention at Sheffield University.
(above left) Delegates in Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
(above right) LRG members on a guided walk in Snowdonia