Clare Burgess – Travels With A Landscape Architect to the Skeleton Coast – is this Wednesday’s Kirstenbosch RoomToGrow.at 10:30 AM
The presentation will be an armchair travel talk with slides and plenty of information about the Skeleton Coast of Namibia as experienced by a landscape architect. The focus is on the elements that make up all landscapes – the geology, climate, plants and ecology. It takes the viewers across the border with South Africa at the Orange River right up to the Kunene River border with Angola.
There will be a Question & Answer session at the end of the talk. The launch will be live-streamed on the Struik Nature Club & Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Facebook pages on the day of the event. All registrants will be sent a link to the presentation once it has been uploaded to the Penguin Random House SA YouTube channel. REGISTER HERE
Clare Burgess is a qualified landscape architect, Clare has taught at UCT and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology for the past 20 years. More recently, she has been developing an e-learning course on resilient planting design theory and practice. She is chairperson of the TreeKeepers Cape Town Association, a non-profit that raises awareness about the ecological and environmental benefits of trees in urban areas and the importance of caring for these ‘urban forests’. Her firm, CBLA, has won Merit Awards of Excellence from the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa, and Clare was appointed a Fellow of the institute in recognition of her work in promoting landscape architecture. She is also a former trustee of the Cape Town Heritage Trust, and shares her interest in cultural landscapes by giving public lectures on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites that she has visited.
WHAT: Clare Burgess – Travels With A Landscape Architect to the Skeleton Coast | REGISTER HERE
WHERE: Struik Nature Club & Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Facebook pages
WHEN: June 29, 2022 10:30 AM
See also Cape Town Green Map
