MEET THE SPEAKER

Sophie Entwisle

Principal Landscape Architect
Pegasus Group

Sophie Entwisle is a principal chartered landscape architect at Pegasus Group with expertise in planting design, landscape planning, and implementation. In addition to project work, Entwisle also teaches part-time at the University of Sheffield within the Department of Landscape Architecture.

To date, Entwisle has worked on a wide range of projects both in scale and complexity and from early conception through to implementation. She uses Vectorworks on a daily basis and has a passion for working with the team at Vectorworks to develop the software and its capabilities in line with the landscape profession.

Entwisle takes a lead role in using and implementing Vectorworks at Pegasus Group, providing in-house training and support within the Environment team. She has, for a number of years now, worked closely with Vectorworks to improve the usability of the software for landscape architects, with a particular focus on planting design functionality.

SESSION DESCRIPTION

Dynamic Designing – Working Smart, Not Hard.

Innovation and creating smarter, more efficient workflows for companies is not a new way of thinking. Landscape architects are now mainly desk-based, and their output is largely created digitally, creating a need for software to communicate our ideas effectively and efficiently. As a result, software packages are becoming increasingly complex, so having the ability to innovate on the software used each day and having the people to support and facilitate this is more important than ever.

Landscape architects need to be at the forefront of new research and ever-increasing data availability, software advances, and new policies that affect our work. Equally, the software needs to be proactive and dynamic in responding to this.

This presentation will highlight some of the key innovations and collaborations to date and those ambitions for the future development of the software, demonstrating the ever-increasing importance of partnership between practitioner and software.