Our team are finalists in the Pineapples Awards today! 🍍🎉
Pineapples celebrate the very best in placemaking and place-led initiatives, projects that make a positive social, environmental and economic impact, and encourage people to live, work, dwell and play 💚🍍

Harrison Ford listening to the quiet and advocating ‘Hopeful Curiosity’ to save the natural world.

Listening to the Quiet with Harrison Ford youtu.be/dSpZ3sATruE?si… via YouTube

ICYMI This is a beautiful reflection on ‘Assemble in the Forest’ by François Matarasso 💚
arestlessart.com/2023/06/25/tru…

REMINDER: Paris has released a new 5-Year Pedestrian Plan!
- 300 million € to be invested by 2026
- 100 new hectares of pedestrian space
- 100 more “streets for kids”
- Focus on 0 pedestrian deaths #VisionZero
- Longer pedestrian cross times geared to seniors
HT David Belliard

We are appalled that the Government is once again singling out arts & creative subjects for funding cuts in Higher Education.

Many courses have already closed and a growing number are at risk.

This attack on the arts must stop now.

#ArtsEducationMatters
theguardian.com/education/2024…

Super exciting that ‘Assemble in the Forest’ ForestofImagination® is a finalist in the amazing #PineappleAwards The Developer Design Council 💚🌈
thedeveloper.live/places/shortli…

‘The process of working with others is the place where the real joy happens’: Charley Brentnall, pioneer in timber buildings who loved exchanging knowledge with everyone, remembered by Piers Taylor
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📣Submissions call

The #BathNovelAward2024 is an international prize for emerging authors.

We’re looking for manuscripts in every genre and offering a first prize of £5,000 plus our exclusive Minerva trophy.

Judge: Catherine Cho C/d 31 May

Full details 👇🏼
bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-novel…

“The most uplifting meeting I’ve been in for years” Caroline Lucas. What a way to spend a Tuesday evening. At Westminster. Talking regenerative transformation. With this group of legends👇 #BuildingBlocks

Read the manifesto here: buildingblocks-manifesto.co.uk

‘Design leadership should start from school,’ infrastructure chief tells AJ100 lunch bit.ly/43c72XG

So good to meet Kara and see her research into composting and application to landscape projects. We need a lot more bright young landscape architects in our profession and I was very impressed by the creativity being generated by our young team in Singapore.

Our dear friend Charley died last night. He was a wood magician. 10 years of beautiful artwork in the Forest. We will miss his deep sense of humility and his generous spirit.
RIP Charley Brentnall ❤️

Up up and away... #BathNovelAward24 is open for entries with a big hot £5,000 prize ... bathnovelaward.co.uk

Here are just 5 ways in which membership supports wildlife:

🐦 Saving endangered species
🌳 Rewilding woodland
💪 Fighting illegal hunting
💚 Connecting people to nature
🌎 Creating conservationists of the future

Read more: bristolzoo.org.uk/news/how-membe…

Bristol Zoo Project gets go ahead to build new forest habitat, in partnership with Grant Associates and FCBStudios bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Some of the world's most endangered animals are to live together for the first time at our Bristol zoo.

(Video credits: Grant Associates, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Wilbee Films)

Bottle Cage Lagerstroemia Indica, several plant stems woven to make a vase. The plants are still alive in this shape

Don't you dare.....🧐 theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Hard to believe this is a real place but how wonderful it is.

'Appleby Blue happens to be a sheltered housing project, but it exudes a quality that all great buildings share: a sense of humanity that reminds us of what all #architecture is ultimately about: helping people to lead good lives.' - Carolyn Steel for Architects’ Journal