Edinburgh College of Art students win awards

Edinburgh College of Art has won two major student prizes at this year’s Landscape Institute Awards.

Students carried off the main prize for both student dissertation and portfolio. Two College students also won runner-up commendations.

The winners

Amy Harley-Jepson, Edinburgh College of Art, won in the dissertation category for her paper, 'Resilient landscapes: what are they and how useful is it for landscape architects to adopt the concept as a new design paradigm?'

In the student portfolio category Oliver Barden won for his work on Templehof, Germany and Al Ain Oasis, UAE.

Both Nick Tolley and Andrew Pringle were commended runners-up in the dissertation and portfolio categories respectively.

A College alumna won the Landscape Institute's President's award. Jo Gibbons, who graduated in the 1980s, was recognised for a project in Dalston, London.

The Landscape Institute Awards

The College was competing against 11 other higher education institutions across the UK delivering landscape architecture programmes.

The prizes are blind reviewed by a panel of professionals. This year's awards ceremony was hosted by Tim Smit KBE, Chief Executive and co-founder of the Eden Project.