SGD Symposium 2022
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th June
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RHS Hilltop Building - RHS Garden Wisley, Wisley Lane, WOKING, GU23 6QB
PAST - PRESENT - FUTURE: Finding answers to the way forward from our past.
As the Society celebrated 40 years of garden and landscape design, this two-day symposium held at the new Hilltop Building, RHS Garden Wisley, examined the past, cast a critical eye on current practice, and proposed new ways of working together to address the rapidly changing demands of people and planet to help develop an industry leading approach to sustainable garden design.
Aimed at helping the industry work collaboratively to forge plans for a responsible, creative, relevant and rewarding future in the way we practice, a line-up of some of the UK's most influential garden and landscape designers working in sustainable and ecological design shared their knowledge and expertise in an unmissable mix of talks, panel debates and round-table discussions.
Keynote speakers included Dan Pearson OBE FSGLD, Bernard Trainor, Charlie Harpur, Rachel Bailey MSGLD, Dr. Phil Askew and Marian Boswall MSGLD.
Other highly acclaimed speakers, including Sarah Eberle FSGLD, Advolly Richmond, David Stevens FSGLD, Tom Massey MSGLD, Jo Gibbons, Noel Kingsbury, Catherine Heatherington FSGLD and Giacomo Guzzon, staged a series of lively panel debates.
Given the significance of the environmental issues being discussed at the Symposium, the Society implemented a no-fly policy for the event. Bernard Trainor spoke live from one of his gardens in California and Noel Kingsbury spoke live from his home in Portugal.
Delegates were also encouraged to share their own thoughts and expertise in daily round-table discussions, drawing together the threads that contributed to the Manifesto which will form a blueprint for the way we practice in the future. The discussions were headed by Society Co-Chair Andrew Duff MSGLD, who also co-chaired the event.