FRIENDS OF THE LANDSCAPE ARCHIVE AT READING (FOLAR)
Annual Symposium at The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
Redlands Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX
Saturday 2 November 2024, 11am to 4.30pm.
Existing and new members welcome and open to non-members
Past President of the Landscape Institute, Tim Gale, will chair the day. Speakers include:
Dr Jan Woudstra of the University of Sheffield on nineteenth century ‘lunatic asylums’ & their gardens, parkland & farms
Robert Holden on the Bermondsey Experiment in 1920 and 1930s
Dr Paul Rabbitts, Chair of the Parks Management Association on the role of public parks during Covid
Jamie Liversedge of the University of Gloucestershire, on therapeutic gardens & biophilia
Professor Catherine Ward Thompson, University of Edinburgh on landscape and public health: its future
One theme for the FOLAR symposia is how the past can inform the present and the future. This is a symposium with full opportunity for discussion with question time after each talk and a general discussion with the speakers at the end of the day and, so everyone can have the opportunity to speak, numbers are limited to fifty. The symposium will begin at 11am and end at 4.30pm, and all (members and non members) are welcome from 10.30am onwards, lunch included.
Cost:
FOLAR members £50 incl. lunch
Non members £60 incl. lunch
Registered Students £15 incl. lunch
Digital only £15
