Paint the Town Red Review…
Published by Kate January 23rd, 2006 in Events, ReviewsAt the end of June 2005, IFLA held their annual conference in Edinburgh. SLIC organised and hosted a number of events which ran alongside the conference. Our main event was Paint the Town Red, which we held the weekend before the conference began. The weekend involved running around Edinburgh in teams interpreting 5 separate questions with as much imaginative flare as the students could muster. It was a great success and everyone had a great time. It was an excellent opportunity to meet other landscape students and make new friends.
We rejoined the professional delegates on Monday for the conference, which included some fascinating seminars about projects going on all around the world. Monday evening the student exhibition showing work from universities all around the country, moved down to the Royal Botanic Gardens from Edinburgh College of Art for the opening ceremony and reception. The exhibition was well received by all the delegates who seemed in awe of the standard of the work.
Tuesday SLIC hosted an open meeting for the attending student entitled, Meet SLIC. This gave everyone the opportunity to give us feedback about the week, their thoughts about what SLIC should be doing more of and ideas for possible events we could organise in the future.
The conference continued till Wednesday when SLIC took the student delegates to Little Sparta, which is the famous sculpture garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay in the Borders of Scotland. With exception to the weather, the day was really enjoyable and the gardens interesting and beautiful. That evening, after drying off, we rejoined the professional delegates for the closing ceremony, dinner and ceilidh. After a fantastic meal, awards ceremony and far too much wine, we Scottish danced the night away, shoulder to shoulder with some of the most famous Landscape Architects in the country, and the world.
All in all the week was a great success and enjoyed by all. We had some excellent feedback from students and professionals alike, and have been given further opportunities to exhibit student work since.
Thank you very much to everyone who put so much hard work into the event and also to everyone who supported us.
Jemma Purandare
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