Samuel Cortis has won the Landscape Institute Mark Turnbull Travel Award. Samuel is a Landscape Architect at LUC and an MMU graduate.

The award celebrates Graduate Landscape Architects who display a determination to learn skills from across the world.

Mark Turnbull was one of the country’s most eminent Landscape Architects. He was recognised for the contribution that overseas learning and experience from his training and work in the USA brought to his practice in Scotland. The award provides winning graduates up to £5,000 for international travel and accommodation to aid their learning.

With the grant, Samuel will explore how Landscape Architects across Europe establish creative solutions in designing community-focused spaces that become part of long term development. He will look at how ownership of the land led by community groups enhance their potential on a social and ecological level.

Samuel will travel in February 2020. He will visit France to explore initiatives, research centres and meet practitioners in Paris, Bordeaux and Lyon; then onto the Netherlands, Amsterdam and Rotterdam and finally Berlin.

Samuel will present his findings at the LI Scotland AGM in April 2020. He will speak alongside guest talks on climate change, community empowerment and land reform.

Congratulations from LUC.

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