Graduate + Student Employment

School of Design

Landscape architecture education at the University of Greenwich has an international reputation developed over fifty years. Confident, knowledgeable and skilled landscape architects have graduated from Greenwich, the oldest courses in the country, going on to become leading landscape designers, landscape planners, garden designers, urban designers and occasionally academics in the UK and abroad. As one of the elite design and construction chartered professions, amongst architects and engineers, our education is both explorative as well as being finely honed towards professional practice mainly in landscape and environmental consultancies, where students become the creative and professional consultants who ensure that our world becomes a better place to live in, whilst fulfilling their client briefs.

Our aim is and has always been to prepare our graduating students for work and to accomplish this we not only provide the necessary education in theory, technology and design, but we promote interactions with industry employers and consultants—many of whom also studied at Greenwich—in five ways. Firstly, our students regularly meet with professionals in their design reviews where external consultants are invited to critique the design work and to talk about their own offices and approaches. Secondly, we organise live design projects where students work with designers and clients to realise physical projects. Thirdly, we take students to visit offices and sites, both in the UK and abroad (when we are on field trips), to get a real impression of real office environments and where the students are exposed at first hand to the workings of an office and a particular consultancy’s approach, ethos and methods. Fourthly, towards the end of the year we also invite consultants as well as recruitment agents to engage with students with their portfolios and CVs, explaining what employers are looking for and how to create and curate a portfolio and how to engage with a potential employer from the outset; from the initial letter and introduction, to presenting the portfolio and oneself. Finally, our engagement with the Landscape Institute through our review group and our external examiners provides students

with an excellent knowledge and future network from which to develop their careers. Employers regularly approach Greenwich as they have opportunities for landscape graduates as well as developing long-term agreements with the University to employ our students.

Our engagement with consultants strengthens our alignment with the profession but also provides our students with an amazing resource that could not happen without the generosity of time, and energy, brought into the University by the profession. In this respect, we would particularly like to thank Jennifer Mui (MRG Studio), Carl Thomas (LOCRI), Armel Mourgue & Oliver Duiguid (Gillespies), Liz Stark (LDA), Helene Saulue and Leighton Pace (Exterior Architecture), Martin Bhatia (Colvin and Moggridge, Donncha O Shea (Gustafson Porter and Bowman), Jane Pelly and Graham Dear (The Royal Parks) for their generous contributions.

Ed Wall, Associate Professor of Cities & Landscape

FUTURE CITIES SUMMER SCHOOL

ANUSHKA ATHIQUE

Project Lead

Anushka Athique.

Project Coordinator

Emma Colthurst.

With thanks to

Karen Dear, Ross Schaffer, Meredith Will, Phil Hudson, Robbie Munn, Poppy Ring.

The Landscape Architecture and Urbanism team organise a unique summer school for Year 12 and 13 students from across London who are interested in the design of future landscapes.

The summer school, founded in 2018, involves young Londoners working in small teams with professional designers and lecturers at the university of Greenwich.

This year (25–29 July 2022) we will be looking at how our cities function, and asks: what type of energy will be needed to make them run? We will question where our resources come from and how they will shape how we use and occupy the cities of the future.

At the Future Cities Summer School we will propose a future based on a new relationship with energy and natural resources. We will begin by exploring London’s neighbourhoods, recording what is happening with photos, sketches and video. Then we will return to the university design studios and develop proposals through drawings, collages, model making and video. The aim of the Summer School is to speculate on what cities might be like if we were in charge of designing the future.

At the end of our five days together we will present our vision to invited friends, family, and guests. Students will also receive a certificate of attendance and a printed publication on completion of the Summer School.

Join the Future Cities Summer School at University of Greenwich’s award-winning Stockwell Street building—to explore the design of cities and landscapes of the future.

Apply via: https://thelandscape.org/future-citiessummer-school/