Category sponsored by Greentech
About this award
This award celebrates landscape projects that seek to maximise the positive impact of place on human health and wellbeing. This may be place-based health strategies or plans, for instance those which seek to increase access to nature for health, or they may be targeted design or management interventions, such as mitigating the health impacts of air pollution. This includes greening of healthcare facilities such as hospitals and care–homes.
This award is open to different types of landscape works, including (but not necessarily limited to):
- Assessment or research
- Planning document
- Design: detailed/technical
- Design implementation
- Management strategy
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Appleby Blue Almshouse by Grant Associates © Philip Vile
Appleby Blue Almshouse by Grant Associates © Philip Vile
Judging criteria
In selecting an eventual winner, the judges will focus especially on the degree to which the entry:
- has evidence of role of landscape architect leading or influencing project design to provide benefits to public health and well-being through a range of measures – accessibility, opportunities for engagement, biodiversity, beauty, etc.
- has evidence as to how health and well being issues have informed design process
- maximises impact on human health and wellbeing, and other social outcomes
- relies upon thorough and robust analysis of impacts, risks, and benefits
Limitations
This award is open to individual Chartered, Fellow or Academic members of the Landscape Institute or an office, department or section headed by a Chartered member of the LI.
To enter this Award:
- The work may be of any scale
- Part of the awarded activity must have taken place between July 2022 and July 2026
- The work may be a stand-alone project or form part of a larger project