Johanna Gibbons

Johanna Gibbons is a Landscape Architect. She is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commissioner on the Jersey Architectural Commission. Jo trained in Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art and founded J & L Gibbons in 1986. She is founding Director of Landscape Learn, a social enterprise established in 2016 to advance a wider understanding and appreciation about the landscapes we design, inhabit and influence. Johanna is a member of various advisory panels including Historic England’s Historic Places Panel and the Forestry Commission’s Forestry and Woodland Advisory Panel. She is a Trustee of Open City, a charity promoting people-centred cities and a core research partner of Urban Mind, a cross-disciplinary project lead by Kings College London with Art collective Nomad Projects, exploring how the urban environment affects mental wellbeing. Jo advocates for the profession on an international stage and has published several research publications, most recently, ‘Conversations on Urban Forestry’. Jo was nominated a Royal Designer of Industry by the RSA in 2019.