Alex Albans

Alex Albans is a Research Fellow at the West Midlands National Park Lab within Birmingham City University's Department of Landscape Architecture. His work explores how cultural frameworks shape relationships between people and their environments, focusing on reconciliation theories and spatial design processes. He holds a PhD ('Site Seeing: Interpreting Site in Landscape Architecture') from BCU and has prior experience as a land surveyor, mediator at Coventry Cathedral's reconciliation department, and coordinator at the University of Warwick's Chaplaincy service.

• Affiliations: West Midlands National Park Lab, BCU Department of Landscape Architecture
• Key Expertise: Historical urban geography, cartography, conflict transformation, and landscape design pedagogy

His teaching emphasizes designers' engagement with place, informed by his dual background in geography and mediation. Current research investigates how reconciliation principles can reshape societal interactions with landscapes.