Since its establishment in 2007, LEAF has held strong that there must be processes that support conversation and dialogue. This belief has been expressed in the past through a curated series called 12 on 12; a series that, over multiple editions, invited landscape architects, and architects, and designers, to present for precisely 12 minutes on a topic of their choosing, and also the webinar series that it has set up - Saturday Sojourns - through which we will continue to engage with Landscape Design Practitioners, and Academicians.
Most recently, in April of 2022, we set up an in-studio lecture series - Beyond Design - which was designed to invite people from a variety of fields, to conduct conversations that were designed around their fields of interest; conversations that may impact ideas of design.
While the first edition saw speakers in the fields of architecture, landscape design, interior design and furniture design, photography, and art curation, the second edition, which began in April of 2023, has invited people from the fields of music, theatre arts, finance and ornithology, and psychology, amongst others. The format is designed to be as such - each presenter spoke for anywhere between 40 - 45 minutes. These presentations - while touching upon the areas of interest and expertise of the presenters - are equally about personal narratives, questions and ideas that they are intrigued by, and the conversations that they are looking to engage with. These presentations are designed to act as points of departure for the discussions that then follow.
