July 3, 7:30 pm
Nadezhda will give a talk on the potential of the living environment and public spaces as recreation areas for people of all ages and interests. What can and should be done to make a space welcoming and comfortable? How can plants and planting make a space enjoyable and safe? Nadezhda will deal with these and many other questions during her talk.
Nadezhda Kerimova is associate professor of landscape design at the St Petersburg State Forestry University, a lecturer and tutor at the St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and an expert in urban greening. She has written numerous articles for magazines including Project Baltiya, Urban Magazin, Topos and Garten&Lanschaft, and is a practising landscape architect.
Admission is free of charge. The number of participants is limited. Please register in advance.
Lectures on Urban Gardening, together with Dacha in the City
Dacha in the City is an educational initiative, dedicated to greening up apartments and balconies, urban gardening, and landscape design. This cycle of lectures will focus on the practical aspects, most interesting to city-dwellers: how to achieve the kind of cooperation between neighbors and municipal authorities necessary to make a green roof, what do you need to create a vertical garden in your living room, where is the best place to build a community garden, and what kind of plants are best for a garden on the balcony. These and other questions will be answered by practicing landscape designers and gardeners.
