This half-day event will give you the practical grounding required to confidently deliver biodiversity outcomes as a core design skill.
Biodiversity in Practice - Weaving the Green Thread
Across five focused sessions, our speakers will follow the green thread from first principles to planted reality, giving you the terms, concepts, frameworks and resources needed to integrate biodiversity within your projects.
This is a working session, not a lecture. Live polls, questions after every session, a panel discussion, and a chair-led Q&A will mean you help shape the conversation.
What you'll take away
- A clear grasp of ecosystem services, and why biodiversity belongs in the core spatial design,
- Practical methods for developing and communicating green-blue options and integrating them into a consolidated masterplan,
- Creating, enhancing and connecting habitats, forming corridors and functional networks for nature and people,
- A realistic view of planting planning, sourcing and delivery that will survive in a changing climate,
- Approaches to equitable access, co-design and stewardship that keep biodiversity thriving long after handover.
Who it's for
For landscape architects, planners, developers and everyone shaping places, who want to develop or learn new skills in embedding nature as part of core design. Learn how to confidently integrate biodiversity and achieve multiple benefits, from ecosystem services to planting in the ground.
The start of more to come
This is part of a growing programme in landscape-led guidance and sessions from the LI. Bring your questions and real project challenges to our speakers. What you raise here will help to inform our next steps.
Programme
- 9:30 Welcome and scene-setting
- 9:40 Session 1: Ecosystem services: nature as primary infrastructure
- 10:10 Session 2: Evidence-led green-blue infrastructure
- 10:40 Break
- 10:50 Session 3: Habitat-based planting design
- 11:20 Session 4: From plan to planting: panel discussion
- 11:50 Break
- 12:00 Session 5: Equitable access, co-design and stewardship
- 12:30 Q&A
