About

Landscape || Gender || Environment is a feminist research collective that explores how gender, coloniality and environmental concerns shape histories, pedagogies and epistemologies in design and the built environment. The group brings together researchers working at the intersections of landscape, architecture, urbanism, gender and environmental thought. We examine how spatial practices and forms of environmental expertise are produced and contested across different cultural and historical contexts.

Construction yard with three large steel pipes resting on the ground seen end on. A group of women and men can be seen in ther foreground giving perspective to the huge size.

The collective engages a range of research methods including archival research, critical spatial analysis, oral history and collaborative approaches. Through these methods, the group seeks to recover marginalised histories and question dominant narratives of authorship to develop more inclusive ways of understanding environmental and spatial practice.

Alongside academic research, the collective engages in public-facing initiatives and creative pedagogies that introduce questions of gender, environment and climate to wider audiences through partnerships with cultural institutions including museums, archives, community groups, educational institutions and galleries. The group contributes to research-led teaching in the context of interdisciplinary practice, climate crisis, social justice and decolonial practice.

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Collaborators

The Birmingham Botanical Gardens
The Gardens Trust
Women in Danish Architecture
Historic Environment Scotland
Society of Architectural Historians GB
The Garden Museum
The Modernist Society
Landscape Institute, United Kingdom
FOLAR

News

Overhead view of a table with neatly arranged craft supplies including paper, scissors, pencils and pens, with photographs of trees and landscapes ready to be cut out. Several sets of hands can be seen working with the materials.

18th March 2026

Feminist Cartographies

Liverpool School of Architecture researchers develop national schools toolkit linking landscape history and environmental learning

Vintage black and white photograph of a large abstract sculpture of a bird set in a grassed area outside a brutalist tower block.

18th March 2026

Playful Geographies

Funded Research Project to Map Mary Mitchell’s Post-War Play Landscapes for Public Heritage

Group of men and women, dressed in a smart casual style, standing outside in front of a glass fronted building. They are holding up a large poster featuring children looking at a stone building with the text

10th April 2025

School of Architecture Research Project Featured at Historic Environment Scotland’s Event

Women of the Welfare Landscape featured at the launch of Historic Environment Scotland’s new Learning and Outreach Framework.

Scammonden Reservoir at susnset - Credit Professor Richard Brook

19th December 2023

AHRC funding secured for School of Architecture reservoir project

Schools of Architecture at the University of Liverpool and Lancaster University, and the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University have successfully secured funding for an innovative research project on UK reservoirs.

Photograph of Women of the Welfare Landscape exhibition

25th July 2023

'Women of the Welfare Landscape' exhibition at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire

The travelling exhibition, Women of the Welfare Landscape curated by Professor Luca Csepely-Knorr and Dr Camilla Allen from Liverpool School of Architecture is on show at the National Trust’s Quarry Bank Mill property in Styal, Cheshire.

Five white women in an office setting undertaking administrative tasks in the 1960s

15th December 2022

Visions of Welfare: discussing the role of women in the creation of the spaces of the post-war Welfare States

An international conference discussing the role of women in the creation of the spaces of the post-war Welfare States.