Training
Design and Management of the Public Realm
PRIAN
PRIAN, the Public Realm Information and Advice Network, offers a unique 6-day intensive training course recognised by an IHIE Professional Certificate. This course equips professionals from engineering, planning, architecture and urban design to operate across the disciplines to deliver quality places and streets.
www.publicrealm.info
Dates
Session 1: 23-25 September 2008
Session 2: 11-13 November 2008
(Sessions are Tuesday to Thursday inclusive)
Where
The Barns Hotel, Cardington Road, Bedford MK44 3SA
Cost
£1,900 plus VAT, per student. (Including single bedrooms for two nights in each session)
A discount will be given to two students from different backgrounds attending from the same organisation.
Details
Understand how to apply the techniques that create memorable public spaces. The course is open to all. No specific technical qualifications necessary to join. Successful participants will be eligible to join the Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers as Members.
Course Overview & Aims
A comprehensive residential and distance learning based course, comprising two residential sessions each of three days. The emphasis is on influencing the design, delivery and management of the total public realm. This means the co-ordination of basic traffic engineering with urban design and landscape principles.
On-site studies into the integration of urban design and traffic issues, using sites immediately reached from the course venue.
Opportunities to meet leading national practitioners as well as people from different disciplines with similar interests.
What you will learn
How to use basic knowledge of all the disciplines involved in order to form balanced judgements on the design delivery and maintenance of high quality public realm:
- What makes a memorable public realm
- How quality of space is perceived and measured
- What agencies are involved and how they operate
- How different sorts of people use the public realm
- How urban design context is assessed
- Principles of movement
- Principles of traffic management
- Risk, liability and the avoidance of accidents
- The difference between regulations and guidance on signs and lines
- The design of quality pedestrian crossings
- The design of homezones
- Concepts of small scale landscape design in public spaces
- Case studies using the techniques of design
- Working with the public through effective involvement
- Efficient delivery and maintenance of quality schemes
Flexible tailored learning
The course has forged close links with experts practising in the varied disciplines. Students will benefit from the mentoring programme.
Each participant will be assigned an experienced, nationally known practitioner to act as mentor to give advice on the chosen case study.
Case studies of existing sites are used throughout the course and students are encouraged to use their own projects as case studies.
Students will be given additional individual help where required and generate links with others in the industry.
A complete synopsis of the syllabus and the competency levels that will be attained are on our website www.publicrealm.info..
Who should attend
People from engineering or urban design/architecture/ landscape backgrounds or interests. People engaged in one or more of the agencies or disciplines that help improve the public realm. People interested in becoming more involved in improving the public realm.
h3 Benefits
You will meet people with similar interests from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds Learn how to be more effective and create memorable public spaces.
Contact
Colin Davis
Email: colinjdavis@aol.com
Tel: 020 8398 7837
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