Global Change and Landscape Design University College Dublin

Overview

The Global Change and Landscape Design MSc programme from University College Dublin key facts:

• Advanced Skills in the principles of landscape architecture including dedication, vision and passion for design and our environment.

• Future Orientated and attuned to the careful balance needed for current and future resources and energy responsibility with complex knowledge of the rich ecology of sites and how to phase interventions towards these.

• Practiced in research methods, design methods and mastery of communication in a range of visual, verbal, written and digital modes.

• Create leaders who are conscious of climatic and social challenges, with in-depth knowledge of process with an ethical outlook, knowing when to intervene and when not to.

• Spatially trained with well-considered appreciation of the cultural & historical, environmental & specific context, to design appropriate solutions and delightful spaces.

• Collaborative and committed to participative planning with end users and the need for lifelong curiosity and professional growth in practice.

• Adopt a theoretical framework and critical approach to data to synthesize divergent demands in a changing context and draw conclusions to generate creative proposals.

• Curious, efficient and reliable in delivering to program and budget, advanced knowledge of digital systems and aware of the complexities of material selection and reuse.

Career opportunities:

Graduates of the Global Change and Landscape Design program from University College Dublin literally have the world at their feet. Global change creates needs and opportunities that are only now fully unfolding. Medium and large offices and global consulting firms are looking for landscape specialists who can understand, assess and design the future landscape. This is not just limited to the world’s land masses, but also includes the oceans, where large offshore industries (e.g. wind power) are emerging.

Specifically, graduates will have a skill set affording opportunities to work in a variety of industries and companies, including:

• Landscape Architecture/Urban Planning firms SWA Group, ARUP, AECOM, Hargreaves Associates

• Environmental Consultancy firms MKO, ERM, Tetra Tech, Jacobs

• Real Estate Development companies Remcoll, LDA, Lendlease

• Government agencies European Environment Agency (EEA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

• Non-Profit Organizations European Landscape Convention (ELC), Irish Environmental Network, Heritage Council of Ireland

Testimonial:

Professor Joerg Rekittke, Programme Director

As academics, programme directors, and programme team, we dedicate ourselves with enthusiasm and all our creative strength to the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced: global climate change and its overwhelming consequences that will change everything in the world. The landscape, the ecosystems, the flora, the fauna, the economy, the cities, the societies — everything.

As a landscape architect and designer, I know that we have always stood and worked on the right side, outdoors, where the forces of nature work. The current accumulation of crises renders clearer than ever what we have to tackle and do.

All essential tasks of future landscape design are directly related to the requirements of man-made global change. We can’t wait for anything anymore, we have to act now, design now, and implement now.