Skip to main content

School of Architecture and Landscape

  • Undergraduate
    • Undergraduate study
      • Courses
      • Open days
      • How to apply
      • Fees and funding
    •  
      • Your career
      • Student profiles
      • International opportunities
  • MArch
    • MArch programmes
      • Courses
      • Open days
      • How to apply
      • Live projects
      • Studios
      • Fees and funding
    •  
      • Professional experience
      • Your career
      • Student profiles
      • International opportunities
  • Postgraduate
    • Postgraduate study
    • Masters study
      • Courses
      • Open days
      • How to apply
      • Fees and funding
      • Your career
      • Student profiles 
  • PhD
    • PhD study
      • Types of PhD
      • Find a supervisor
      • How to apply
      • Fees and funding
      • Current PhD research students
      • Why Sheffield?
  • Research
    • Research
      • Architecture research
      • Landscape research
  • People
    • Our people
      • Academic and research staff
      • Professional services and technical staff 
  • School
    • Our school
      • About us
      • News
      • Contact us
      • Facilities
    •  
      • International opportunities
      • Summer exhibitions
      • Alumni
      • Careers
      • Student support
University of Sheffield homepage
  • Study
    • Courses
      • Undergraduate courses
      • Postgraduate taught courses
      • PhD study
      • Apprenticeships
      • Mature students
      • Online learning
      • TEFL and English as a second language
    • Studying at Sheffield
      • Teaching
      • Facilities
      • Ranking, reputation and history
      • Your career prospects
      • Contact us
    • Student life
      • Students' Union - the UK's no. 1
      • Clubs, societies and sport
      • Guide to Sheffield
      • Support
    • Accommodation
      • University residences
      • Rent
      • Apply for accommodation
    • Visit
      • Undergraduate open days
      • Postgraduate visits
      • International visits to your region
      • Sheffield Live online events
      • Subject taster sessions for Y12 and Y13 students
    • Apply
      • Undergraduate applications
      • Postgraduate taught applications
      • PhD applications
      • Applying as an international student
      • Visas and immigration
    • International students
      • Our international community
      • How to apply
      • Visas and immigration
      • International Summer School
    • Fees and funding
      • Undergraduate fees and funding
      • Postgraduate taught fees
      • Postgraduate taught funding
      • PhD fees
      • PhD scholarships
  • Research
    • Research at Sheffield
      • Our strategic priorities
      • Our people
      • Research Excellence Framework 2021
      • Researcher support
      • Research environment and culture
      • Open Research
    • Postgraduate research
      • Find a PhD
      • PhD projects directory
      • PhD scholarships
    • Expertise
      • Centres of excellence
      • Facilities
      • Library
    • Our impact
      • Research features
      • UN sustainable development goals
      • University Player
      • Nobel Prizes
      • Queen's Anniversary Prizes
    • Contact
      • Research partnerships and people
  • Collaborate
    • Partnerships
      • How we support business
      • Examples of business partners
      • Research centres, institutes and networks
      • Our role in the city and region
    • International
      • Our global networks
      • We Are International campaign
      • Global opportunities and exchanges
    • Alumni
      • Update your details
      • Support us
      • Our alumni
      • Alumni volunteering
    • Philanthropy
      • Forged in Sheffield, Shaping the Future campaign
      • Get involved
      • Donate now
      • MND appeal
    • Schools and colleges
      • Virtual schools hub
      • Activities and events
      • Sustained programmes
      • Education partnerships
    • Contact us
      • Research partnerships and people
      • Global Engagement team
      • Schools and Colleges Liaison team
    • Hospitality
      • Conferences, events, visitor accommodation and weddings
      • Cafes and bars
  • About
    • About the University
      • News
      • Events
      • Jobs
      • Sustainability at Sheffield
      • Inclusion at Sheffield
      • Support for refugee students and scholars
      • Our vision and strategic plan
      • Our role in the city and region
      • Governance and management
      • Rankings
      • University of the Year
      • Queen's Anniversary Prizes
      • Nobel Prize winners
    • Departments and services
      • Academic departments
      • Faculties
      • Professional services
    • Studying at Sheffield
      • Guide to Sheffield
      • Courses
    • Hospitality
      • Conferences, events, visitor accommodation and weddings
      • Cafes and bars.

School of Architecture and Landscape

Menu
  • Undergraduate
    • Undergraduate study
      • Courses
      • Open days
      • How to apply
      • Fees and funding
    •  
      • Your career
      • Student profiles
      • International opportunities
  • MArch
    • MArch programmes
      • Courses
      • Open days
      • How to apply
      • Live projects
      • Studios
      • Fees and funding
    •  
      • Professional experience
      • Your career
      • Student profiles
      • International opportunities
  • Postgraduate
    • Postgraduate study
    • Masters study
      • Courses
      • Open days
      • How to apply
      • Fees and funding
      • Your career
      • Student profiles 
  • PhD
    • PhD study
      • Types of PhD
      • Find a supervisor
      • How to apply
      • Fees and funding
      • Current PhD research students
      • Why Sheffield?
  • Research
    • Research
      • Architecture research
      • Landscape research
  • People
    • Our people
      • Academic and research staff
      • Professional services and technical staff 
  • School
    • Our school
      • About us
      • News
      • Contact us
      • Facilities
    •  
      • International opportunities
      • Summer exhibitions
      • Alumni
      • Careers
      • Student support
 

You are here

  • Home
  • School of Architecture and Landscape
  • Our school
  • Hopeful greener futures

Hopeful greener futures

We specialise in design expertise to address the climate and biodiversity crisis. Through teaching, research and practice, we are working towards a cleaner, greener future. We’ve collated projects and resources - produced recently by department staff and students - to help inform and affect change.

Off

Innovative proposals

Student work from Ecological Processes, Design and Management

 Cool-down, dry-out, clean-up Sheffield

Towards an Urban Naturehood
Towards an urban naturehood, Birmingham
Creekside Park
The Creekside Park, Newark
Chuanran Nie
Magnetic River Rose / Dahzou China 
Jiajin Wang
Ecological Coastal FIlters / Portsmouth 

Critical thinking

Biodiversity loss

Biodiversity loss could be making us sick, here's why

© Knepp
Rewilding and Landscape professionals
Sheffield city centre, viewed from above
Naturally challenged cities
Kew Gardens
Climate change in historic gardens
Eucalyptus
Climate-adapted and sustainable?

 

Vital practice

A visualisation of the winning design for Pirelli 39. Image © DS+R and Stephan Boero Architects

Iconic skyscraper regeneration, Milan

BREATHE barrier collaborators with pupils
Playground pollution barrier, Sheffield
Gardening in a Changing Climate
Gardening in a changing climate
Grey to Green, Sheffield
Community-led flood reduction
Aquilegia vulgaris
The benefits of gardening frequently

Global challenges

Nature based solutions

Co-producing nature-based solutions

The Neretva river in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovnina
Drowned in Neretva River, Bosnia
Juniper tree
Coniferous trees and conservation strategies, Oman
   

The University of Sheffield

  • Undergraduate courses
  • Postgraduate taught courses
  • PhD study
  • Accommodation
  • International students
  • Jobs
  • Information for visitors
  • Player
  • Student policies and protection plan
  • Make an online payment
  • Support us
  • Student hub
  • Staff hub
  • Alumni
  • Departments and services
  • Students' Union
  • Library
  • Contact

The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
+44 114 222 2000
Top-100 THE World University Rankings Russell Group University of the year - What University? Student Choice Awards 2024 Five Queen's Anniversary Prizes
  • Facebook logo
  • X logo
  • YouTube logo
  • Instagram logo
  • LinkedIn
  • TikTok
  • WeChat
  • Weibo

Footer menu

  • Feedback
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • FOI
  • Modern slavery statement
© 2025 The University of Sheffield