Johanna Gibbons

Johanna Gibbons is a Landscape Architect, founding member of J & L Gibbons an award-wining practice established in 1986 and founding Director of Landscape Learn, a social enterprise concerned with immersive community engagement with the landscapes around us. Jo studied Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. She is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and the Royal Society of Arts and serves on several advisory panels including Historic England’s Urban Panel and the Forestry Commission’s London Forestry and Woodland Advisory Committee. Jo’s design expertise concerns heritage, green infrastructure and urban regeneration and she leads on collaborative cross-disciplinary practice and engagement at a strategic and local level. She is a collaborative partner of Urban Mind, a cross-disciplinary research project with Kings College London and Nomad Projects, exploring how the urban environment affects mental wellbeing. Jo was recently made an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.