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The Humanitarian Landscape Collective brings together landscape practitioners and students. Five members of the Collective have outlined their approach to tackling climate emergency. 1 1. Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. © Oana Baloi
Climate change, mass displacement and unsustainable urbanisation are critically affecting those living in the world’s most vulnerable places – the least well-equipped to overcome these challenges. A group of landscape practitioners and students has started the Humanitarian Landscape Collective [HLC] guided by the philosophy that the landscape profession has a professional and moral duty to help. HLC is a research initiative whose aim is to increase the presence of landscape architecture in the third sector.
The group’s objectives are: –– ensuring that landscape architecture principles are used in improving the quality of life for the world’s vulnerable –– educating ourselves and others on landscape architecture’s value in addressing global challenges The group is doing this in three ways: –– connecting with the humanitarian community –– transferring knowledge between this community and the landscape profession
–– focusing on the research question “how can we support vulnerable communities in developing resilience to natural disasters?” The group runs workshops and open dialogue with NGOs, humanitarian forums and fellow designers working with the world’s most vulnerable people. To find out more about the organisation contact Rhys Jones: rhysjones.la@gmail.com
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