RESETing the built environment

Living Roofs & Ecosystem Services

1 Day: £100 standard rate / £80 RESET member or student
2 Days: £180 standard rate / £160 RESET member or student

Day 1: Living Roofs & Ecosystem Services
Where: Eversheds, 1 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7WS
When: 9th September, 9.00 - 17.30 (9.00am registration for a 9.30am start)

Flash flooding and air pollution health alerts are already part of London's summer profile, as well as an urban heat island effect and possible Lisbon style temperatures by 2020. At the same time, habitat and biodiversity loss are threatening the future of the human race. This masterclass looks at a range of ecological design principles to work with natural cycles, adapt our cities to climate change, and provide for nature, using ecosystem services as a lens.
 
This exploration of living roofs and ecosystem services design looks at the holistic and integrated approaches needed to produce better buildings and environments in our cities. A deeper understanding is required of ecological processes, if we really want to achieve real results for people and habitats - cleaner air, cooler summer temperatures, moisture and soil, and habitats for the biodiversity that is our natural life support system.

The masterclass is led by the independent ecologist and masterplanner, Gary Grant, and the UK's foremost living roofs policy instigator and writer, campaigner and author Dusty Gedge, with biomimicry architect Michael Pawlyn of Exploration Architecture. If you are involved in any aspect of design for the urban environment, planning, architecture, engineering, landscape or ecology, or working in related fields of law, insurance, health or public services, then this course is for you.

Day 2: Dalston Roof Park Design Charrette
Where: Levitt Bernstein Architects, Dalston, Hackney, north London
When: 10th September, 9.30am -17.30pm

This practical design workshop will give participants a hands-on opportunity with the experts, to test the application of ecosystem services design on a live project - the design of the Roof Park for the Print House roof in Dalston, one of the Mayor of London's "Great Spaces" projects. Planning and designing for biodiversity at roof level is a complex and exciting process which, in the face of climate change adaptation and resource depletion, when done well can produce real results for nature, for people and for our cities. The day is led by masterplanner and ecologist Gary Grant and UK living roofs policy writer, campaigner, teacher and designer Dusty Gedge. The fee includes all materials, a tour of the Print House roof and lunch.

Speakers
Gary Grant is a chartered environmentalist and ecologist with 30 years’ experience involving several hundred projects of ecological survey and assessment, biodiversity action planning, habitat creation, wetland restoration, regional green infrastructure planning, site design and management. He is an expert on green roofs and living walls, is a contributor to the London Plan Policy on Living Roofs and Walls and to the Green Roof Guidance for Greater Manchester. Projects have included the Westfield living wall, London 2012 Olympic Park and masterplanning in China and Qatar.

Dusty Gedge has been a campaigner, policy writer, author and professional designer and consultant on green roofs for over a decade, and has been invited worldwide from Canada to Korea to speak. In 2004, Dusty established livingoofs.org, the UK’s leading independent organisation for information on green and living roofs and was awarded the Andrew Lees Memorial Award for his contribution to the environment. He wrote the planning policy for London on living roofs and has worked tirelessly for their incorporation into strategic approaches to biodiversity and built environment design. He is President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations.

Michael Pawlyn (Day 1 only) established Exploration in 2007 to focus on environmentally sustainable projects that take their inspiration from nature. Prior to Exploration, he worked with Grimshaw for ten years and was central to the team that radically re-invented horticultural architecture for the Eden Project. He was responsible for leading the design of the Warm Temperate and Humid Tropics Biomes and the subsequent phases for a third Biome for plants from dry tropical regions. He was also responsible for Grimshaw's becoming the first firm of European architects to achieve ISO14001.

This course is supported by Gateway to SusCon
with SEEDA and ESF