Professor Luca Csepely-Knorr
Luca Csepely-Knorr is Chair in Architecture at the Liverpool School of Architecture. She is a chartered landscape architect (Chamber of Hungarian Architects) and art and architectural historian educated in Hungary (Corvinus University of Budapest and Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest) and in the UK (Manchester Metropolitan University). Luca worked as a landscape architect for the Municipality of Budapest before starting her academic career. She has been since involved in architectural and landscape architectural education and research both in the UK and in Hungary.
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Dr Camilla Allen
Dr Camilla Allen is a landscape architect and historian. She completed her doctorate, ‘The Making of the Man of the Trees’, in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield on the forester and conservationist Richard St. Barbe Baker (1889–1982). Her research focuses upon the relationship we have with the natural world, with trees as the focus, which she explores through particular places, people and events like Britain’s three tree cathedrals, the designation of special groves within California’s coast redwood forest, and the commemorative planting of trees in Sheffield during and after the Great War. Along with Dr Jan Woudstra she has edited The Politics of Street Trees which is published by Routledge.
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Student Interns
This summer, Women of the Welfare Landscape was joined by two Student Interns from the University of Liverpool School of Architecture, Byan and Sophie. Byan and Sophie are supporting the project by helping populate the HistoryPin site and create material to publicise activities and events. The students are undergraduates, and working on Women of the Welfare Landscape as part of the Humanities & Social Sciences Research Internship Scheme 2022-23 will give them a unique perspective on the practice of landscape architecture through the work of Brenda Colvin and her peers.
Public Engagement Support
The University of Liverpool awarded Women of the Welfare Landscape Research Development and Impact Funding to appoint two practitioners to help deliver public engagement and support, Laura Sanderson and Joy Burgess. Laura is a freelance architect, educator and creative and Joy is a PhD student at the School of Architecture. Laura and Joy’s focus is on an extra set of activities around Styal Village and Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire which is managed by the National Trust. The Women of the Welfare Landscape exhibition is going to be installed in the Mill over the summer holidays and in advance of that, Laura, Luca and Joy organised a school workshop to engage local children with Brenda Colvin’s work and legacy.