Second Nature – Johanna Gibbons

About: Johanna Gibbons, is a Landscape Architect, founding member of J & L Gibbons LLP established in 1986 and founding Director of Landscape Learn, a social enterprise. She is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and the RSA and serves on several advisory panels including Historic England’s Historic Places Panel and the Forestry Commission’s London FWAC. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, a Trustee of Open City and a core research partner of Urban Mind, a cross-disciplinary project lead by Kings College London with Nomad Projects, exploring how the urban environment affects mental wellbeing, recently published in Bioscience. Johanna Gibbons expertise concerns heritage, green infrastructure and urban regeneration and she leads on collaborative cross-disciplinary practise at a strategic and local level, mostly in London. Many of her projects are international award-winning, including the 2011 Landscape Institute President’s Award for the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden as part of Making Space in Dalston. She led the work producing the first SuDS Design Guidance for Transport for London, winning the New London Architecture Award for Transport and Infrastructure in 2017. Jo’s work at Bushey Cemetery for United Synagogues was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2018. Exhibited work includes ‘Urbanistas’ at the Roca Gallery London, celebrating innovative women in urban design.