Speakers

Luke Engleback CMLI FRSA Chartered Landscape Architect, Ecourbanist

Luke has four decades experience as a designer and environmental planner at all scales, establishing Studio Engleback, multiple award-wining practice in 1998 on the back of a winning entry in the Gallipoli Peace Park Competition, where international Judges noted “a strong, consistent ecological approach at all scales and levels of intervention. Ecology as both planning principle and process.” This is an essential component of the whole systems, landscape led approach of ecourbanism. Biophilic Design is tied up in our ecourbanism approach, and Biophilia was the name of our prize-winning floating garden city in 2014 for London’s Docklands. Designing for health and wellbeing has been a constant since the studio began and for over a decade has been the basis of deep research and knowledge sharing at the WHO European Healthy Cities and then annual SALUS Healthy City Design International conferences. Salutogenic landscape design is inherently Biophilic, and Luke took part in workshops at Cornell University in early 2013 exploring this. He is a former Chair of the Landscape Foundation, sits on the Landscape Institute’s Policy and Public Affairs committee, the Cambridge Quality Panel and South Downs National Park Design Review Panel.