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Michael Westley Mr Michael Westley - (Michael Westley)
Role Qualifications & background
Professional membership Roles on external bodies
Department of Health NHS Design Review Panel.
Play England Enabler- national training & consulting in play strategy & inclusive play design. Teaching interests
Staff serving as external examiners Research interests Public space design – access and inclusion Healing and care environments design Learning environment design Parks and play design Sustainable residential & business landscape design Other research Research degrees awarded to supervised students Grants & contracts Creative practice & artistic projects Westley Design 2005 – (Practice Principal) Michael Westley's environmental consultancy, Westley Design, is collaborative - involving a broad range of designer-makers and development professionals in order to develop creative and holistic landscape solutions. This includes partnership based regeneration projects with residential communities, schools, health care environments, businesses and local authorities, often focusing on urban regeneration. Michael’s work attempts to create a sustainable relationship between people and place. The Inclusive landscape architecture consultancy, specialises in the following areas of work:
Clients have included:
Publications Paper - Building Bridges: Interdisciplinary Design Based Education Projects (Shared Visions Conference September 2002, University of Brighton) Paper – Inclusive Healing Environments – Sensory Trust Case Studies (Critical Connections Health Care Arts Conference December 2002, Leeds General Hospital Article – Sensory Rich Education (Landscape Design Magazine – February 2003 Issue 317) Publication – English Heritage Access Guidance for Historic Landscapes, Sensory Trust, October 2004 (Landscape Institute Awards winner 2006) Paper – CABE Healthy Environments Conference Week – Case Studies Paper/ Workshops CABE Green Space Leaders Program – Inclusive Access to the Public Realm 2007 Paper/ Workshop – Qualitative Assessment of Public Space by Spaceshaper (CABE U.K.), Healthy Parks Healthy People – International Congress, Melbourne Australia April 2010 Reports & invited lectures Workshop – Creating Connections; People & Place & Lecture – The Eden Project As Rural Regeneration Mechanism (Mark Harrison Fund Series April / May 2003, Rhode Island School of Design) Paper- Conference Partner Organisation ‘Projects’ Session – ‘Making Sense’ Inclusive environmental design and management; developing links between the environment and people’s health and well-being (D21 Design Agenda for the 21st Century, December 2004, Rio de Janeiro) Poster & forum ‘Wellbeing by Design-3 healing landscape case studies & Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust’ at the Well-Being Conference Exploring the Multi-dimensions of Well-being at Birmingham University July 2011 Poster & forum workshop ’Wellbeing by Design – healing, placemaking’ at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH) Securing Children's Health & Wellbeing through Outdoor Play Conference, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. September 2011 Workshop presentation ‘Connections between Craft, Sustainability and Wellbeing’, Connecting Craft and Communities Symposia, Dartington, Totnes. September 2011 Workshop presentation, Centre for Environment & Human Health (ECEHH) Enterprise, Environment and Wellbeing Conference, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro, Cornwall. October 2011. Conferences organised Public Parks Keep Out! Conference – Greenspace & Sensory Trust Nov 2003) Other academic activities Play England / CABESpace – Training Materials Design & Training Delivery 2006 - 2008
NHS Design Review Panel - Therapeutic Place-making, Quality of Place through Landscape Design- March 2008 CABESpace – Spaceshaper Place Evaluation Tool & Methodology - development & trialling & training 2005 – 2011 (including training with Parks & Leisure Australia / Australian Heart Foundation 2010) Additional information Westley Design 2005 – (Practice Principal) Michael Westley's environmental consultancy, Westley Design, is collaborative - involving a broad range of designer-makers and development professionals in order to develop creative and holistic landscape solutions. This includes partnership based regeneration projects with residential communities, schools, health care environments, businesses and local authorities, often focusing on urban regeneration. Michael’s work attempts to create a sustainable relationship between people and place. The Inclusive landscape architecture consultancy, specialises in the following areas of work:
Clients have included:
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