Landscape Institute Computing & Technology Conference.
Bill Ambridge
Dear All
Please see details below of this year's Landscape Institute Computing &
Technology Conference.
Details have already been sent to LI members, but others are also welcome -
please contact the LI for pricing details, hotel availability, etc. Given
the location, the seminar may be of particular interest to overseas
subscribers to this newsgroup.
Landscape Institute Seminar
Computing with Capability
Blenheim Palace, Oxford, England, UK
9 July 1998
This is the fourth in a series of successful technology based conferences.
The theme for this year's event is the use of new technology in landscape
planning, design and practice. The day will include presentation on CAD,
the Internet as a business tool and resource, GIS, virtual reality modelling
and integrated project management.
Speakers will be from a variety of backgrounds and will explore and
demonstrate ways in which technology is changing working methods and
enabling greater productivity and higher standards, focusing on the
practical application of leading edge hardware and software.
Blenheim Palace has long been recognised as one of England's finest stately
homes and gardens. The Palace, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, is set on a
hill in magnificent grounds extending to over 200 acres. In 1764 Lancelot
'Capability' Brown created the two large lakes either side of Vanbrugh's
bridge, the Great Cascade to the west and various plantations, may of which
survive today.
Please contact Jane Friend at the Secretariat to book your place:
6-8 Barnard Mews
London SW11 1QU
tel: 0171 738 9166
fax: 0171 738 9134
email: mailto:ja...@l-i.org.uk
Web: http://www.l-i.org.uk
Seminar Details:
09:30 Registration, Coffee & Exhibition
10:00 Introduction and overview Today's technology's tools (Ian Phillips,
Chair)
10:10 CAD Developments - Freedom to Design Efficiency, flexibility and
quality solutions (Tim Calnan, Principal, Calnan Scott Design)
10:35 New Ways of Communicating - The Internet as a two-way resource (David
Watson,University of Greenwich)
11:00 Clever Maps GIS, GPS, Survey & analysis (Max Gordon,Ordnance Survey)
11:25 Virtual Landscapes - Look before you build. Virtual reality in design
& planning (Ashleigh Dunseath, Chris Blandford Associates
11:50 Summing up and Panel Questions (Chair & Speakers)
12:10 Lunch in The Orangery & Demonstrations by Exhibitors / Sponsors
14:00 Managing Information through GIS - New opportunities for the public
sector (John Weston, Principal Economic Research Officer, The City and
County of Swansea)
14:30 Pulling it all together - Integrated Project Management using IT (Alec
Smith, Associate, Benoy Architects & Designers)
15:00 The Academic View - IT in Education (Andrew Clayden, Sheffield
University)
15:30 The Shape of Things to Come -Tomorrow's integrated society, Living in
and with the virtual world. (Ian Bentley, Co-chair Joint Centre for Urban
Design, Oxford Brookes University)
16:00 Summing up & Panel Questions (Chair & Speakers)
16:15 Tea / Coffee & Exhibition
17:00 Tour of grounds
Contacts:
Ian Phillips mailto:ianph...@btinternet.com
Bill Ambridge mailto:bi...@4dld.com
Jane Friend mailto:ja...@l-i.org.uk
Sponsors: NBS, Artisan, Keyscape (Provisional), Marshalls (Provisional),
ESRI (Provisional)
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William Ambridge DipLA MLI
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