The Dear Green Glasgow studio examined the complex urban fabric of inner-city Glasgow. Two major events gave context to this studio: the Glasgow Garden Festival held in 1988 and the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) hosted by Glasgow in November 2021. Directly influenced by an opportunity to step up climate action in Scotland and to make our voices heard, the studio explores the roles Landscape Architects can play in a time of Climate Emergency.

Starting from the scale of a show garden to voice and activate change, students have grown their projects to speculate innovative city visions to foreground and address pressing social and environmental pressures such as urbanisation; rising sea levels; flooding; contamination; loss of fertility; loss of biodiversity; resource exploitation and productivity.