Mark Laurence

Mark Laurence has been a practicing landscape designer for 35 years. Learning from direct apprenticeship and experience, he is a Chartered Horticulturalist and committee member of the Society of Garden Designers. He specialises in sustainability and future thinking on landscapes. His consultancy work is international, focussing on the Middle-East.

Describe your approach to teaching

My approach is to challenge convention and engage with new ideas about our world, from a personal level to a global one. I try to show that there are many pieces to this jigsaw and that the way we have them arranged now may not be giving us the right picture.

What inspires your own work?

I have a deep-seated concern for the world, and for humanity’s place within it. I like to make a difference, in large or small ways, to ecologies, microclimates and people’s reaction to them. I want to initiate change and adaption to climate change.