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Caley Winter Lecture – Kevin Frediani
4th October, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
“University of Dundee Botanic Garden – a 50-year curatorial legacy”
The University of Dundee Botanic Garden comes of age on 23rd October 2022. The garden at 50 years of age, has matured to become a much-loved local community asset, while its ecologically informed living collections provide a highly valued amenity to the surrounding landscape. A landscape that increasingly attracts and retains a growing number of visitors, who are more and more becoming members and returning through the year to enjoy its ever changing seasonal events and gallery programme.
This talk reflects on 50 years of the gardens curation, as a legacy of its curators, but also a reflection of the changing times of a University Botanic Garden conceived at the end of the 20th Century. A garden of 9.5 hectares with collections of many notable plants from different temperate climes, it is also a garden that reflects the changing perceptions over that passage of time and the curatorial direction that has been forged in response.
This is a talk that will unpick that journey and share an emerging vision for a garden in transition with a new curator at its helms in a time of global change.
Kevin is the Curator of Botanic Garden and Grounds at the University of Dundee where he leads the strategic direction & operational management of an important national collection that facilitates education, conservation and research across many traditional schools of knowledge. He is currently unlocking the whole of the University landscapes potential, through a collaborative ‘living laboratory’ within the University that informs, evidence & further enriches the green-blue infrastructure of the combined campuses with the goal of supporting student, staff and visitor health and wellbeing.
Our talks will be held in the Lecture Theatre at RBGE. We do still intend to put recordings of the talks on our website for members who cannot attend in person. All talks will begin at 7.30pm. Our talks are free and are open to non-members. All we ask is that you make a small donation at the door or perhaps buy a raffle ticket if you can.
