Women of the Welfare Landscape

通过各种共同制作的面向公众和学术活动，该项目将纪念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网络。该项目将挑战景观历史中关注个人设计师和关键旗舰设计项目的现有方法。“福利景观中的妇女”将把注意力转移到专业人员网络，他们作为教育工作者、活动家和倡导者的工作，以及日常项目：为社区服务的景观。相对于典型的私人花园的对象为重点的分析，这个项目将分析公共住房的景观，由市政当局资助的公共和郊野公园，以及由公有，国有化行业委托的基础设施景观，作为社会效益和“公平分享”景观的物质例子：福利规划的一个关键目标。该项目将研究景观专业在战后时期的重要性日益增加，其重点从私人客户转向社区和更容易获得的教育系统，是否导致景观建筑师的专业习惯和社会背景的变化。通过使用背景传记的方法，该项目将布伦达科尔文（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。她是第一位当选为任何领先的建筑环境研究所所长的女性，她于1951年担任景观设计师协会主席。她的工作不仅定义了学院和专业的未来，而且对景观设计师的教育产生了持久的影响。她与Hal Moggridge的合作通过他们的实践Colvin & Moggridge确保了她的工作的持久遗产：该实践现在是该国运行时间最长的，并将在2022年庆祝其百年。虽然研究的学术角度将分析和绘制科尔文的网络在国家和国际专业，以及英国帝国的背景下，一系列面向公众的活动将纪念她执业一百周年，并将在女性领导力，不断变化的景观设计专业，以及这些景观在当前COVID 19大流行和气候危机所强调的绿色空间可及性辩论中的作用。

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.