Women of the Welfare Landscape

通过一系列共同制作的公众活动和学术活动，该项目将纪念那些对塑造战后英国福利国家设计景观产生重大影响的女性及其合作者。该项目将挑战景观史上现有的专注于个人设计师和关键旗舰设计项目的方法。“福利景观中的女性”将把注意力转移到专业人士的网络上，她们作为教育者、活动家和倡导者的工作，以及为社区服务的日常景观项目。与以对象为中心的典型私人花园分析相反，该项目将分析由市政当局资助的公共住房景观、公共公园和国家公园景观，以及由公有、国有工业委托的基础设施景观，作为社会效益景观和“人人公平分享”的物质例子：福利规划的一个关键目标。该项目将考察景观专业在战后时期的重要性，其焦点从私人客户转向社区和更可用的教育系统，是否导致景观设计师的专业习惯和社会背景的变化。通过使用上下文传记方法，该项目将Brenda Colvin（1897-1981）的合作和网络置于研究的中心，通过它将探索更广泛的问题。布伦达·科尔文出生于印度，在斯旺利园艺学院接受教育后，于1922年开始独立执业。1951年，当她担任景观建筑师协会主席时，她是第一位被选为领先建筑环境研究所所长的女性。她的工作不仅定义了研究所和专业的未来，而且对景观设计师的教育产生了持久的影响。她通过Colvin & Moggridge事务所与Hal Moggridge的合作，确保了她的作品的持久遗产：该事务所现在是英国运营时间最长的事务所，并将于2022年庆祝其百年纪念。虽然研究的学术角度将分析和绘制科尔文在国内和国际专业以及英国帝国背景下的网络，但一系列面向公众的活动将纪念她的实践一百周年，并将这一工作体系置于女性领导力，景观设计专业变化，以及这些景观在当前围绕2019冠状病毒病大流行和气候危机所突显的绿色空间可及性的辩论中的作用。

Through a variety of co-produced public facing and academic activities this project will commemorate the network of women and their collaborators who have had a major impact on shaping the post-war designed landscapes of the British Welfare State.The project will challenge existing approaches in landscape history that focus on individual designers and key flagship design projects. 'Women of the Welfare Landscape' will shift attention to networks of professionals, their work as educators, campaigners and advocates, and projects of the everyday: landscapes in service of communities. As opposed to an object-focused analysis of exemplary private gardens, this project will analyse landscapes of public housing, public and country parks funded by municipalities and landscapes of infrastructure commissioned by publicly owned, nationalised industries, as material examples of landscapes for social benefits and 'fair share for all': a key objective of Welfare Planning. The project will examine whether the growing importance of the landscape profession in the post-war period, its shifting focus from private clients towards communities and a more available education system, led to a change in the professional habitus and social background of landscape architects. By using a contextual biographical approach, the project will place the collaborations and networks of Brenda Colvin (1897-1981) at the centre of the research, through which the wider questions will be explored. Brenda Colvin was born in India and, after being educated in Swanley Horticultural College, started her independent practice in 1922. She was the first woman to be elected president of any leading built environment institute, when she took on the role of President of the Institute of Landscape Architects in 1951. Her work not only defined the future of the Institute - and the profession - but also had lasting impact on the education of landscape architects. Her collaboration with Hal Moggridge through their practice Colvin & Moggridge ensured the lasting legacy of her work: the practice is now the longest running in the country and will celebrate its centenary in 2022.While the academic angle of the research will analyse and map Colvin's networks in a national and international professional, as well as British imperial context, a series of public facing events will commemorate the centenary of her practice and will contextualise this body of work within the questions of female leadership, the changing profession of landscape architecture, and the role of these landscapes in the current debates around accessibility of green spaces highlighted by the COVID19 pandemic and the Climate Crisis.