Blanche is Associate Professor of Environmental Design at The Bartlett UCL. She studied Architecture and worked as an ecological builder and designer, before teaching sustainable architecture and cities for 25 years at CAT’s Graduate School of the Environment then UCL. She has organised events including the European Urban Green Infrastructure Conference series. She is a co-lead on the AHRC research project ‘Retrofitting for the Future: Nature-based Solutions to Climate Adaptation’ and is co-creating the University of London’s Living Lab in Bloomsbury with students, staff and local groups. 

About Blanche Cameron: 

Blanche Cameron is an ecological designer, builder, teacher and advocate, working with students and staff, community groups, local authorities and others on practical nature-based solutions to urban climate impacts, biodiversity loss and social and environmental injustice. Blanche has been teaching since 2001at the CAT Graduate School of the Environment, then from 2013 at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL on the transitions to biodiverse, liveable, equitable buildings, landscapes and cities. In 2019, Blanche created UCL’s Greening Cities module, focusing on retrofitting urban neighbourhoods with green infrastructure for climate adaptation, nature recovery, health and wellbeing (UCL Special Award for Sustainable Education 2023). Blanche works closely with UCL’s and the University of London’s Sustainability and Estates teams, co-creating Nature-based Living Labs with students, staff and external wildlife and gardener experts. She is a co-lead on ‘Retrofitting for the Future: Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation’, a 4-year AHRC-funded project with Swansea and University of Wales Trinity St David’s. She co-founded and organised the biannual EUGIC series of European Urban Green Infrastructure Conferences, is a member of the Architects Climate Action Network and supports extracurricular activities including Wild Wednesdays – student workshops helping to create wildlife habitat on campus in Bloomsbury. Publications include Nature-based solutions and buildings – the power of surfaces to adapt to climate change and to deliver biodiversity (Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas, Springer 2016), translated and edited the 2019 English version of Vienna Urban Heat Island Strategy. She lives on a narrowboat, mostly moored in London.