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Situated Research: Consultancy, Training and Research shaping ethical places.


PROJECTSThe Legacy of Ian McHarg in Scotland, 2019-2022 touring exhibition & events.

Role: 
Content and narrative curation, primary research, event curation, funding bid writer.

Collaborators:
Landscape Institute,
University of Edinburgh,
University of Pennsylvania 

Funding:
Paul Mellon Foundation and Landscape Institute Scotland.

Publications:

Roberts, A. (2024). Ian McHarg's ‘imaginative connectedness' with Scotland: Tracing his transatlantic pedagogy and knowledge transfer in the mid-twentieth century. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 19(2), 8-17.

Roberts, A. (2019) “Design With Nature.” Landscape, Issue 4, pp. 17–21.

Urban Design for Ageing, 2018-2021.


Role: Primary research of best practice examples in Japan and Sweden, budget management, partnership management.

Collaborators:
Landscape Institute Scotland,
Architecture & Design Scotland.

Funding: 
Landscape Institute Scotland.
Publications:

Roberts, A. (2021) “Age-Friendly Urban Policy and City Design in Toyama City, Japan.” Urban Design Journal, Autumn.

Architecture & Design Scotland ‘A Caring Place’ Invited Blog Series, 2019.
Feminist Urban Design Workshops 2022-2025.


Role:
Content development and delivery.
Collaborators:
Manchester School of Architecture, Helen Iball,
Praxxis Studio unit,
University of Manchester

Postwar Social Housing Landscapes 2016-ongoing.


Role:
Principal Inverstigator, primary research, budget  management, partnership management, event curation, bid writer.

Collaborators:
Manchester School of Architecture, 
Historic Environment Scotland, 
Landscape Institute, 
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Paysage, 
University of Pennsylvania, Museum of English Rural Life, Prof Luca Csepely-Knorr 

Publications:

Roberts, A., & Csepely-Knorr, L. (2025). Michael Brown's Social Housing Landscapes in London: Design Intentions and Post-Construction Realities. Architecture and Culture.

Roberts, A. & Csepely-Knorr, L. (2017) “The Lost Glory of the Royal Northern College of Music Roof Garden.” The Modernist, Issue 24, pp. 48–52.

Roberts, A, (2024), “Social Housing in an 18th Century Landscape: HF Clark’s Broomhill Estate, Glasgow” The Pleasaunce, Issue 11, pp.18-23