Alumni

Dear Alumni of the Department of Landscape,

As announced earlier this year we will be holding our first ever Alumni Day on Wednesday 7 September 2011.
This will be a unique opportunity to meet former and present staff and Heads of the Department of Landscape and of course meet your fellow classmates.

We have arranged a very interesting programme for the Alumni Day.

Programme (as of 6 July 2011)

11.00 – 12.00
Eckart Lange: welcome back to the Department
Short presentations
Development of the Department of Landscape
Jan Woudstra: Arnold Weddle, founding professor of the first department of Landscape Architecture in the UK in 1969
Anne Beer: Head of Department 1982 – 1994
Carys Swanwick: Head of Department 1995 – 2005
Paul Selman: Head of Department 2005 – 2010
Eckart Lange: Head of Department since 2010

12.00 – 13.30
Refreshments and Light Lunch
loop of powerpoint presentations:
A. Current research from members of the Department
B. Department history, Alumni pictures
C. Alumni projects
D. Current student projects

13.30 – 14.45
Presentations by Department of Landscape Alumni
Martha Fajardo, Past President IFLA
International Federation of Landscape Architects
Neil J. Williamson, Immediate Past President
Landscape Institute

14.45
Official Close, Eckart Lange, Head of Department

We are planning to use data projectors to show pictures from the past and present, as well as projects by current students and alumni.
Please send your pictures to lsc-alumni@sheffield.ac.uk inserted in a powerpoint-document stating date (year), names of the people in the picture and the location of where the picture was taken. Please do not send files that are larger than 5 MB in size.

Please send plans, pictures etc. showing your projects inserted in a powerpoint-document not exceeding 5 MB in file size.

You are warmly invited to attend and we hope to see many Landscape Alumni on this first ever Landscape Alumni event. In case, you are unable to attend this time, we are planning to hold alumni events in the future on an annual basis.

The list of alumni that the university has is far from being complete. Could you please notify your friends with whom you are still in contact with of the event.

Please update your contact details here: http://www.shef.ac.uk/alumni/keepintouch

Please register for the Landscape Alumni event mentioning your name and your year of graduation with lsc-alumni@sheffield.ac.uk no later than 15 August, 2011.

Looking forward to meeting you in the newly refurbished Arts Tower.

Best wishes

Eckart Lange
Head of Department of Landscape