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The Landscape of Public Health - FOLAR Annual Symposium 2024 at The MERL and online

The Landscape of Public Health

Children with tuberculosis being treated with heliotherapy at an open air class in the 1930s at the clinic in Leysin, Switzerland 

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

Earlier Event: May 23
FOLAR AGM 2024
Later Event: January 8
20C Women in Landscape Design