“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know” – D.J. Boorstin In the week running up to the climate change negotiations in Paris last December, I was privileged to take part in the Youth in Landscapes Programme: a four-day workshop together with 49 other youth in landscape professionals. We were divided into […]

( Winning a landscapes challenge ) ‘And love dares you to care for            The people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change  our way of caring about ourselves’ (Under pressure, Queen, 1981) Such words are even more powerful when sang together by Freddy Mercury and David Bowie. Why should I […]

As I arrived at the Youth in Landscapes workshop, I was feeling excited but also anxious. The 50 youth innovators would be divided into five teams, each working on a real-world landscape challenge, and I was in the Finance and Trade team. How could we, 10 young professionals from across the world who had never […]

Several young people gathered in Paris in December 2015 for three complete days to try to understand the global challenges facing the Environment today.  The Landscapes seems to be an obvious issue but yet again, it seems we have been missing the point. It is one of the complex issues I have dealt with especially […]

My adventure into the world of Youth in Landscapes Initiative was a strange one. It started off with my professor asking me if I was interested in working with a group of people organizing a youth initiative as part of a larger conference. I was also allowed to use the data I collected as part […]

Waiting for my visa to be processed, I kind of got nervous. I wondered if I would get it, and prayed I would get it; and I got it. Having been working with Marina from YPARD and the marketing team, I had already reviewed most blogs of the 50 innovators and they were an amazing […]