You will learn practical, achievable ways to make garden design and construction more sustainable, focusing on re?using materials already on site and reducing reliance on new resources.
The course introduces circular or cradle to cradle thinking, helping you design gardens that can adapt over time, with elements that can be dismantled and reused rather than discarded.
Through guided exercises, your tutor will show you how to rethink common construction approaches and develop more resource?efficient solutions.
You will explore:
- How to assess a garden for reusable materials
- Ways to re?purpose existing hard landscaping and features
- Simple circular design principles for garden layouts
- Approaches to designing for dismantling and future reuse
- Low?material construction methods and alternatives
- You can work on your own garden ideas or apply the techniques to your design practice, using sketches and informal planning to test out ideas
- The day moves from understanding key concepts into applying them in simple design exercises, keeping the focus on practical, transferable approaches rather than detailed technical builds
- By the end of the course, you will feel more confident in making sustainable design decisions and identifying opportunities to reuse materials within your own projects
