"Shades of Green" is a podcast about interdisciplinary landscape architecture, which brings together many themes and issues and serves to create environments that support well-being.
"Betonosis" prevailing in Polish cities, progressive climate change and the experience of pandemics are changing human consciousness. Ecological slogans, which were characterized as typical of radical environmentalists only a few years ago, are now widely discussed. The above-mentioned phenomena have probably initiated a major social and cultural change, the effects of which we will observe in the coming years. More and more is being said about the health-promoting qualities of contact with nature, and pro-environmental, do-social and universal design is gradually becoming the norm. Topics related to the shaping of public space arouse a lot of emotion and increasingly activate local communities. This is a good time to talk about landscape architecture.
Landscape architects direct their popularizing podcast to both professionals and amateurs interested in shaping environments that support well-being. You can read the conversation with the podcast's creators, Joanna Paniec and Maja Skibinska, here.
"Sensory Landscaping - part 2 - feel it".
In this episode, Joanna Panie c and Maja Skibinska continue the conversation about the role of the senses in the perception of space and their conscious use in designing the environment. They focus on the senses of touch, taste, smell, temperature and balance. They talk about stimulating or quieting the senses through appropriate space design, talk about shaping microclimates, sensory paths, edible plants harvested in parks and phytotherapeutic spaces.
Joanna Paniec
Joanna Paniec is a landscape architect and cultural animator. She graduated from Landscape Architecture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. For more than a dozen years she has been professionally designing urban space and greenery and private gardens, educating, leading workshops, engaging in social and innovative projects. In 2015-2020 she was an urban gardener in Gdansk, and then the main specialist for the city's green brand in the Office of the Mayor, City Hall in Gdansk. She is currently developing the slowgarden.design project, which promotes the concept of shaping the environment in a sustainable way, based on knowledge, experience and modern technological possibilities.
Maja Skibińska
Maja Skibińska is a designer, researcher and educator with many years of experience working on multi-discipline projects and interdisciplinary participatory processes concerning the development of public space. She has authored and co-authored more than 60 projects, including parks, squares and recreational areas. For 12 years of professional work associated with Landscape Architecture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. She is a winner of the "Diplomas for Warsaw" competition for her doctoral dissertation on urban furniture. In her work she explores issues of participatory, universal and pro-environmental design (BZI/ NBS) and equality in urban planning. Together with Aleksandra Wiktorko, she runs the interdisciplinary Szelest studio.
Podcasts in the series "Shades of Green":
A transcription of the podcast and recommended publications can be found on the next page
