Design
Seeing Place
Travelling has taught me that landscapes cannot be fully understood through drawings alone. Walking through King's Cross, Olympic Park, Amsterdam's canals and Copenhagen's public spaces revealed how scale, movement and everyday life shape people's experience of place. These observations continue to influence how I analyse and design landscapes.
Reading Layers of Time
Historic landscapes such as Great Dixter, Sissinghurst Castle Garden and Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage showed me that landscapes carry memory as well as function. They are shaped by culture, ecology and stories accumulated over time, reminding me that every design begins by understanding what already exists.
Visiting Great Dixter with professor Nigel Dunnett
Sissinghurst view
One postgraduate field trip brought us students to Dungeness.
Learning from Resilient Landscapes
Visiting Sankt Kjelds Square and Tåsinge Plads transformed my understanding of climate adaptation. These projects demonstrate that blue-green infrastructure can manage water while creating enjoyable public spaces, reinforcing my interest in evidence-based and resilient landscape design.
Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum
What Travel Has Taught Me
Every landscape I visit becomes part of my design education. Photography, sketching and field notes allow me to record not only physical forms, but also atmosphere, human behaviour and ecological relationships. These journeys continue to shape the questions I ask before I begin every project.
