Where Pathways Meet

🌟We are one of the Inspire Future Generations Awards 2024 finalists! 🌟 We are pleased to announce that we are finalists in the ‘Research - Pedagogy or Practice-Based’ category for our Neasden Town Centre Action Plan and Engagement & Co-Design report. This project was a true collaboration, with a fantastic design team led by Sanchez Benton Architects, Rumi Bose as Stakeholder Engagement Consultant, and Where Pathways Meet as Sustainability Consultants, and Concept Culture as Place Branding Consultants. The Inspire Future Generations Awards is one of TET (ThorntonEducationTrust)’s Awards and celebrates the importance of involving young people and children in shaping the built environment. We are honoured to be recognised for our work and engagement with the Neasden community, where we developed meaningful, phased, and actionable proposals rooted in stewardship, sustainability, and legacy. Big congratulations to all the nominees! Read more about the TET Awards on Thornton Education Trust’s website (link in comments). We are excited for the awards ceremony on January 13th, 2025. Will we see you there? Carlos Sanchez Dieguez Valerie Beirne FRSA FIPM Tanisha Raffiuddin Poppy Boadle #placemaking #IFGawards #IFGAwards2024 #communityengagement #builtenvironment #sustainability

🌳 Thrive in 2025: Urban Greening services from Where Pathways Meet! 🌳 Are you looking forward to embracing a #greener, #healthier, and more #productive new year? The transformative power of green spaces is undeniable—they nurture well-being, boost productivity, and enhance the vitality and resilience of neighbourhoods and workspaces alike. Whether you're aiming to expand or refine an existing urban greening programme or don’t know where to start, we’re here to guide you. From identifying opportunities to ‘green the grey’ to designing creative employee gardening activities, at Where Pathways Meet, we offer creative solutions to unlock the full potential of spaces across your high streets, town centres and neighbourhoods. Ways we can help include: 👉Commissioning green infrastructure audits 👉Reviewing or creating green space management plans and contracts 👉Supporting entries for Green Flag Awards and London in Bloom 👉Creating guided walks of local green spaces 👉Establishing gardening volunteering programmes 👉Commissioning engaging and unique greening interventions 👉Curating creative and bespoke employee gardening activities 👉Supporting fundraising and grant applications Access to green space and nature is proven to reduce stress, improve mood, and support long-term well-being, making it a cornerstone of thriving neighbourhoods and workplaces. Let us support your ambition for a greener, healthier, and more resilient new year. Get in touch for an informal discussion to explore how we can help your place 'Thrive in 2025'! val@wherepathwaysmeet.co.uk #greeninfrastructure #urbangreening #towncentres #highstreets #BIDs #UrbanGreening #HealthyStreets #2025Goals #Placemaking #London Images: 1.     Where Pathways Meet Urban Greening 2.     #BetterAir Letters (Commissioned as part of Borough High Street Low Emissions Neighgbourhood) 3.     Ewer Street Rain Garden, Bankside 4.     Flat Iron Square Green Roof, Bankside 5.     Bankside Success at London in Bloom Awards 6.     Employee gardening volunteers, Bankside 7.     Keppel Row sustainable drainage signage 8.     Metal Box Garden, America Street 9.     Redcross Way Tree Planting, Borough 10.  Stoney Street Green Wall, Borough Market

✨ Kicking off the Academic Year! ✨ What an exciting first week back at Kingston University as we welcome our talented cohort of students to the MA Landscape Architecture and MA Landscape and Urbanism courses! It's been a pleasure meeting everyone and seeing the energy and creativity already flowing in the studio. This year, the Landscape Studio will explore the concept of "Edgelands", focusing on the dynamic and evolving landscape of Barking Riverside, London. As one of the largest regeneration projects in the capital, Barking Riverside Limited offers a fascinating case study in urban transformation, where the edges between urban, suburban, and natural environments blur. Our students will have the opportunity to dive deep into this unique site, addressing the challenges of designing in these "in-between" spaces where ecological, social, and economic factors coalesce. It was great to launch the brief on site with presentations from Stantec and Barking Riverside Limited who are collaborating with us on our Studio this academic year. Many thanks to my fellow lecturers Dimitris Venizelos and Louise Koopmans CMLI who will be teaching the Studio modules with me. I can’t wait to see the ideas and projects that emerge in response to our brief, as we explore how to create more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable landscapes in these transitional zones. Stay tuned to follow our progress! #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #LandscapeUrbanism #Edgelands #BarkingRiverside #SustainableDesign #Regeneration #DesignStudio #Creativity #NewBeginnings #Teaching #ChooseLandscape

🌳 Good things come in small packages!🌳 Sometimes Google photos alerts me to photos I took on this day x years ago. So it was lovely to be reminded today of the Metal Box Garden, and hard to believe it is seven years since I delivered this project during my Better Bankside days. It was conceived as part of a wider strategic project: the Clean Air Mini Neighbourhood (funded by the Mayor of London’s Air Quality Fund), which encouraged footfall to quieter back streets to reduce pedestrians’ exposure to air pollution on the busier streets nearby. (We worked with King's College London's Environmental Research Group on measuring the impact of this in terms of peoples' exposure to air pollution - but that's another story!) The Metal Box Garden brought creative and engaging green infrastructure to a very grey street, animating the space to make it more inviting to explore. The tactical use of a skip in this way was inspired by the story of a pop-up playground in a skip in Spain – where a community found that it was easier to get a skip licence and build a temporary playground in it, than it was to reclaim a parking space and build one in-situ. The amazing Skip Garden by Global Generation in King's Cross N1C was also an inspiration. The Metal Box Garden was delivered in partnership with Southwark Council, designed by Gort Scott working with graphic designers POLIMEKANOS LTD and fabricators JAMPs and was planted by CJS Plants. It won a Pro Landscaper award for best small project in 2018 🏆 . Get in touch if you’d like to find out more, or if you have a similar project or site that I can help you with! #Small_Is_Beautiful #GreenInfrastructure #TacticalUrbanism #CleanAir #Placemaking #London #MicroGreen #FreelanceLife

💥 Reimagine London: vote for us in the people's choice! 💥 With only three weeks until the winners of NLA's #ReimagineLondon competition are announced, there is still time to cast your vote in the people's choice award (voting closes in just one week on 6 September). Vote for A Possibilist Patchwork: London's Micro Green Grid, a collaborative project I've been working on with Where Pathways Meet, Prachi Rampuria, Soham De and Dr. Avar Almukhtar of EcoResponsive Environments and Aleksandar Stojakovic, Alexander Frehse, Martha Eustace of studio 8FOLD A Possibilist Patchwork leverages AR and VR technologies to empower local citizens to co-create a network of micro-green spaces on residual and leftover urban spaces around houses and housing estates, along streets and other city infrastructures. https://lnkd.in/ejpAi7Fe #LandscapeArchitecture #Sustainability #GreenInfrastructure #CoCreation

🌱 A Possibilist Patchwork – London’s Micro-Green Grid 🌱 I am thrilled to have been shortlisted with Where Pathways Meet EcoResponsive Environments studio 8FOLD in the Reimagine London competition organised by NLA. Shortlisted from over 100 entries, our submission: A Possibilist Patchwork – London’s Micro-Green Grid responds to the ambitious open call to reimagine London with innovative, community focussed visions to tackle some of London’s most pressing challenges including accessibility and sustainability. 👉 A Possibilist Patchwork leverages Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies to empower local citizens to co-create a network of micro-green spaces at residual and leftover urban spaces around houses and housing estates, along streets and other city infrastructures. 👉 Our project will increase the agency of Londoners by giving them innovative tools of AR/VR underpinned by our placemaking toolkit to visualise and reimagine the potential of these leftover spaces and co-create projects and ideas to physically transform them into a multifunctional micro-green grid that supports environmental, social and economic resilience across the city. 👉By developing additional interactive and playful tools through AR/VR, citizens will be further empowered to be active custodians of these newly transformed, co-created and flourishing spaces. Well done to all 25 teams shortlisted. https://lnkd.in/eSsyp-uP An exhibition at The London Centre in September will showcase the shortlisted entries, with winners announced later in the month. In the meantime: 📢 Vote for our entry in People’s Choice Award - we're top of the list: https://lnkd.in/ejpAi7Fe 📢 Get in touch to collaborate. We are actively seeking collaborative communities and partners with who we can test our proposals in real life. Please get in touch to find out more! 📢 Read the book: Flourish - Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency (Triarchy Press 2021) by Sarah Ichioka Michael Pawlyn which informed our possibilist thinking. Prachi Rampuria, Soham De, Aleksandar Stojakovic, Alexander Frehse, Dr. Avar Almukhtar, Martha Eustace ‘All of our flourishing is mutual’ Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass) #Reimagine #London