Fieldwork / Landscape architecture

Public spaces designed to be used, and to last.

Founded
2009, Bristol
Studios
Bristol and Glasgow
Team
24 designers and ecologists
Clients
Councils, developers and trusts

A small studio working with councils and developers on parks, streets and squares. We design for the people who use a place every day, and for the decades after we leave.

A new riverside park at dusk, with grassed terraces stepping down to the water

Trusted by

Selected projects

Places that have become part of everyday life.

  • ParksHalden, 2025

    Millbrook Riverside Park

    Eleven hectares of former railway sidings, returned to the river as terraces, meadow and play.

  • StreetsGlasgow, 2024

    Garnet Street

    A four-lane road made into a planted street with room to cross, sit and trade.

  • MasterplanningOakmere, 2026

    Oakmere Fields

    Landscape-led masterplan for 900 homes arranged around an existing hedgerow network.

Services

Four ways we work with clients.

  1. Parks and open space

    From pocket parks to regional landscapes, designed with the communities who will look after them.

    Parks and open space
  2. Streets and public realm

    Street redesigns that make walking, cycling and staying the obvious choice.

    Streets and public realm
  3. Masterplanning

    Landscape-led frameworks for new neighbourhoods, starting from what is already on the site.

    Masterplanning
  4. Community engagement

    Workshops, walks and pop-up studios that shape a brief before a line is drawn.

    Community engagement
The Fieldwork studio in a converted warehouse in Bristol

The studio

Designers, ecologists and engineers at one table.

Every project is led by a partner and shaped by a mixed team from the first site visit. It keeps decisions close to the ground and the drawings honest.

How we work

Impact

Measured after the ribbon is cut.

Hectares of public space
146
Designed and delivered since 2009.
Trees planted
18,400
With a 94% five-year survival rate.
Residents engaged
32k
Through workshops, walks and surveys.
Landscape Institute awards
11
Including two Presidents’ awards.

Fieldwork listened longer than anyone we have worked with. The park works because the people who use it helped design it.

Amara OkaforHead of Parks, Halden Council

Journal

Notes from the studio.

Have a site in mind?

Tell us about the place and the people who use it. We reply to every enquiry within two working days.