University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents:

Cannon Ivers, Director of LDA [1], London, UK

Lecture title:  "Staging Urban Landscapes"

Cannon Ivers is a landscape architect and Director at LDA Design in London. He holds a master of landscape architecture degree with distinction from Harvard. Cannon is a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Landscape Architecture and the author of the book Staging Urban Landscapes:The Activation and Curation of Flexible Public Spaces and the editor of 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know, both published by Birkhauser.

Cannon’s professional work includes urban parks, streets and public spaces and he frequently contributes to design discourse through publications examining 3D design and digital fabrication, spatial programmability, intelligent water design and high impact, low maintenance planting design. A creative designer and thinker, Cannon has been key to many of LDA’s most complex urban projects, including QEOP, Battersea Power Station and Burgess Park.

Image:  Strand Aldwych, City of Westminster, UK

Cannon is currently leading our work on the Strand/Aldwych project. He frequently contributes to the design discourse through lectures, publications and round-table discussions. He sits on both Southwark and Newham’s Design Review Panel and he has recently been part of the House of Lords Committee that examined the future of high streets as a result of the pandemic.

Lecture kindly supported by a SSHRC Grant and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects [2].  All welcome to attend.  

Contacts:  Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Coordinator:  Nadia Amoroso [3], Associate Professor.  
Videoconference link to the lecture for external individuals:  please contact our F22 Speaker Series Student Assistant: Alya Al-Rajab [4].