{"id":1398,"date":"2009-04-09T06:11:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T06:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2009-04-09T06:11:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T06:11:55","slug":"landscape-institute-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/landscape-institute-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Institute organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Landscape Institute should consider itself in the position of Robert the Bruce in a cave on Rathlin Island in the winter of 1305 watching a spider trying to make connections from one area of the cave&#8217;s roof to another. The LI has achieved good things but has suffered defeats. It should seize the breathing space offered by the recession to think again and plan for the future. &#8216;If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try try again.&#8217; Are the problems interconnected? Does the Constitution need to be revised?<br \/>\n The LI has lost too much\u00a0 money. It\u00a0 is out of touch with its membership. Its public profile is too low. Its recruitment is far too low. Major opportunities in garden design and landscape planning have been missed. It has too little influence on government policy. There is no PPG Note on landscape matters. UK landscape architects have not achieved the international renown enjoyed by other categories of British designer (eg architects). The LI <a href=\"..\/..\/landscape_architecture\/careers_jobs\/landscape_design_magazine\">Journal<\/a> is a monthly disappointment. The organization is timid and tepid: not hot and yet uncool.<br \/>\n A symptom of the malaise is the complete redesign of the logo, journal and website every few years. Landscape design should be a classic brand &#8211; with new leadership and more responsive organization. The forthcoming Council elections are a time for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Landscape Institute should consider itself in the position of Robert the Bruce in a cave on Rathlin Island in the winter of 1305 watching a spider trying to make connections from one area of the cave&#8217;s roof to another. The LI has achieved good things but has suffered defeats. It should seize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}